Robert Parrish, a former assistant attorney general and the chief prosecutor in the case against Hadfield, said such claims against Snow are without merit. He said the therapist's probation was unfortunate.

"The kids' disclosure was basically an accident, it wasn't a result of leading questions," Parrish said. "(There) was no evidence of leading questions."

Snow was leading a safety inventory with a child who answered "no" when asked if the child felt safe at home, Parrish said. Snow then asked why the child did not feel safe, Parrish said, and the child wrote on a piece of paper, "My dad has been touching me."

Parrish said Snow's whole story was not told at the time of the Hadfield trial, leading people to assume her guilt.

Snow defended herself in a 2002 opinion piece in the Deseret Morning News. In it, Snow defended her practices and said, "Sexual predators are master manipulators."

"We cannot have it both ways," she wrote. "We cannot decry child abuse publicly and tolerate it privately if the offender is a white, upper-middle-class member of our religious congregation."

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Contributing: Catherine Smith
E-mail: afalk@desnews.com