SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – November 5, 2015 (Gephardt Daily) – A former officer for the Unified Police Department who was arrested in October has now been charged for an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.
Five second-degree felony counts of forcible sexual abuse were filed Wednesday in the 3rd District Court against Regan Anson, 25, for engaging in illegal sexual conduct with the teen for three weeks in September and October of this year.
According to a statement by Unified Police, investigators working on an unrelated case discovered Anson was having a sexual relationship with the female.
“Immediately after discovering this, UPD contacted the Salt Lake City Police Department and requested they handle the investigation,” said Unified Police spokesperson Lt. Lex Bell. “Salt Lake City Police Department investigators commenced their investigation that same day.”
Anson was arrested on October 22 and was booked into the Davis County jail initially on five counts of rape and a $150,000 bail.
“We hold our officers to a high standard. The public expects us to police our own officers and we take that duty very seriously,” Lt. Bell said. “We are shocked and dismayed by this incident and will continue to fully cooperate with this investigation.”
At the time of his arrest, Anson had been a member of the Unified Police Department for only seven months. Anson’s employment with Unified Police was terminated the day after his arrest.
I have a reply to this. Don’t I have a human natural right in any of this? WHY is the world more notified on his well being than I am, when I KNOW our story and the world does not. All this system cares about is what He DID. Not WHY He did it. Do they mention HOW Him and me met? Do they mention WHY we became friends or WHAT started our relationship? Do they mention we were FRIENDS for THREE months before ANYTHING? Do they mention that He is the one who helped me report that unrelated sexual assault? That it was a real rape and He held my hand through it all? They mention his actions but NOT ONCE do they mention His heart. This is the most wrong I have seen the system do in a long long time. I may only be 17 years old, but I know this man more than any media story. Can they tell you WHY He did anything with me? No. Why not?
Because THEY NEVER ASKED. They don’t care about our story. They only care about the law.
Does love have a law? No.
Does the system involve love? No.
Do they know us? Regan and me? No.
Do they know me, or WHY he befriended me? No…
Do they know that I am dying, NOT ONLY because I lost my dear true friend, but also because of my age, and my consent, I ruined his mortal life… Does the world know how this feels? No… Do they care how it feels? If they did HE WOULD STILL HAVE HIS JOB. He would still be protecting THE MORAL LAW.
He did not abuse his trust. In order to trust you must put faith in something you know nothing of. We each put faith in each other- a friendly love. Friends who loved. I am not saying we fell in love but we did love each other. And doesn’t that matter? Yes he was in a position of trust but I did not trust Him because he had on a uniform. I trusted Him because He had A HEART. And from experience, I can tell the world- this is the sort of man that you would want protecting you. He told me why he was in this career. It was to protect people. Not to protect the system. And he protected me. Isn’t that worth something? It sure as heaven is to me. He made me happy. And the system took a piece of my heart and called Him illegal. Yes. He did go against the law- but the law of what. A MAN MADE LAW. He did do something illegal. He made a mistake- DON’T WE ALL? And what, we can put the blame on Him just because he wears a badge? He did not commit a crime. He does not deserve to be taken of His own time. He is a man who empathized with a broken girl. A male who held the heart of a female when she know longer had the will to do it herself. To know Him and why He did what He did, you must know me. But this system does not care about me. It cares about “what he did to me.” Well let me tell you what He did FOR me. He held me together and helped me report a rape and in that I became A VICTIM OF THE SYSTEM AND SO DID HE. He got charged with what helped me report. Where is the morality in that? I have forgiven the one who caused me this incident to turn to Regan, but I cannot seem to forgive this system. Because it is wrong. Regan is good and he did good and to know that YOU MUST KNOW HIS HEART. And every single person who has ever known Regan, can tell you He is good. And I am one of them. I am that 17 year old girl. And the nerve this system has to tell me I am a victim of Him… Is a system built upon sin. I will eliminate the works of this system. It should not focus on what it focuses on. Hence why nothing is being solved. But it is not the system to fix people. But it is the responsibility of the people to heal themselves. And to heal the system. The system of God, for he gives one law. To LOVE AND BE LOVED IN RETURN TO JUST LOVE. Love has no laws. Love has no age limits. Love just is. God just is. God is the authority and HE IS THE JUDGE OF WHAT REGAN DID. So let Him be it. It is hypocritical ALL IN ITSELF to ask me to swear on a bible to testify the truth in a court room while in the bible GOD SAYS NO MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO JUDGE ANOTHER MAN. If this country is founded upon God and my testimony is sworn on God. Then WHY ISN’T THE SYSTEM BASED ON GOD TOO? WHY DOESN’T THE SYSTEM TEACH US TO LOVE and then DO. This is what we’ve been missing. The process of loving. Regan and me did do wrong, we both made this mistake. So let God judge our hearts. Not a system that specifically avoids our hearts to judge what we did. For we wouldn’t have done what we did, if we had no hearts.
I love Regan and I am his loving friend. I want the best for him. And because of this system, a lot has been ruined for Him. But I have sworn to myself to fix this. He is so worth it. God is so worth this.