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Snow involved in 5 probes of alleged sex rings

Published: Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 12:15 a.m. MST
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Allan Hadfield was convicted in 1987 of sodomy and sexual abuse of a child.

His children, a 12-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl, initially told investigators a sex ring, involving several adults and children, existed in their Lehi neighborhood. One of the children also told therapist Barbara Snow that Hadfield was abusing them. Hadfield denied the allegations, and Snow was accused of planting false memories.

Snow was involved in five probes in Utah involving alleged sex rings — two in Bountiful, two in Lehi and one in Midvale. The children in all five cases told investigators similar stories involving satanic rituals and multiple adults.

Investigators who looked into the memory-planting allegations against Snow dropped the cases due to lack of evidence.

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