SANDY, Utah, Oct. 12, 2022 (Gephardt Daily) — A registered sex offender has been charged after he allegedly used his phone to record images of a boy relieving his bladder in a Sandy meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Zachary Wallin, 32 was arrested Tuesday for the July 31 incident. He faces charges of voyeurism — committed against a child under 14 years of age, a third-degree felony; and sex offender and kidnap offender registry violation, a class A misdemeanor.
Wallin’s probable cause statement says the young victim, identified in court documents as “V1,” “was attempting to urinate in the bathroom at a local LDS Church during church services. While attempting to urinate, V1 noticed a cell phone being held over the stall and it appeared to be recording their actions.
“V1 described the male suspect as being a darker skinned white male with a red and black cell phone.”
A Sandy City Police officer interviewed Wallin, and he “confessed to having a ‘moment of weakness’ and stated he was the one who was taking the photos inside the church bathroom. Wallin was discovered to be currently on the Utah sex/kidnap offender registry.”
Wallin’s bail was set at $10,000. A Wednesday records check shows he is no longer an inmate in the Salt Lake County jail system.
