Trial ordered for Payson man accused of sex with teen while son was in front seat

PROVO — The 14-year-old Provo girl painfully recalled in detail the first time she ever met Christopher Boyer.

She had been communicating with the Payson man for a few months, mainly through instant messaging and texting after meeting him on a social networking site in October. But on Jan. 29, the two decided to meet.

The girl testified in 4th District Court Friday that she believed he was 18, had thought meeting him would be "cool" and had thought they were just going to "talk" in the back seat of his car.

But when talking turned into something sexual, she said she felt scared but didn't stop it.

In reality, Boyer wasn't 18 but 31. And while he and the young teen were in the back seat performing sex acts, his 11-year-old autistic son was sitting in the front seat of the car. Boyer had told her he was his younger brother, she said.

Boyer was ordered Friday to stand trial on first-degree felony charges of forcible sodomy and object rape; enticing a minor over the Internet, a second-degree felony; and lewdness involving a child, a class A misdemeanor.

The 14-year-old said she had agreed to meet Boyer in front of her house late on Jan. 29. She said she thought her parents were asleep at the time.

When he met her on the lawn, she said he hugged and then kissed her. She did not object to the kiss but she said she did not kiss him back. It was cold that night, and when he invited her into his car she said she got in.

She noticed the boy in the front seat right away and asked Boyer who he was. The girl said she felt "awkward" hanging out in front of the boy, but Boyer told her he was asleep.

She said Boyer then began to kiss and bite her. Then, she said, Boyer's son started screaming in the front seat, but at this, Boyer just turned the music up louder.

The teen testified that as Boyer fondled her and made her perform sex acts, they heard banging on the door and saw her mother and stepfather outside the car. After police arrived and interviewed her, she said she went into her room and took three or four sleeping pills.

"I wanted that day to end," she told the judge.

Provo police detective Brandon Post said Boyer had first told him he had only kissed her but later admitted to oral sex. Boyer told him he thought she was 18.

The Internet profile she and her friends made up indicated her age as 18 or 19, the girl recalled, but she also said the first time she sent an instant message to Boyer, she told him she was 14.

At the end of the preliminary hearing, Boyer pleaded not guilty to all charges. A pretrial conference was scheduled for March 30.

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