Filmmaker Resigns From Utah Over Alleged Abuse Apology Tape

Sterling Van Wagenen resigned as a film professor from the University of Utah, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. He’d been on leave from Utah over the recent release of an audio recording of him allegedly admitting he molested a 13-year-old boy in 1993. Van Wagenen reportedly said he confessed that same year to police and to his lay leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but that he was never criminally charged, only disfellowshipped. The university confirmed he was no longer employed there.