PROVO — Sentencing for a confessed sex abuser, whose house once had a McGruff Safe House sign in its window, has been continued until Dec. 3.
A defense attorney for Carl Jensen — who police say molested as many as two dozen children at his Orem home — told 4th District Judge Anthony Schofield on Wednesday that he had not received the standard pre-sentence report that precedes sentencing hearings as required by state law.
The attorney also argued that the Department of Adult Probation and Parole had failed to interview Jensen personally — a requirement before a presentence report is drafted.
Schofield sided with the defense and acknowledged that state law required that the report be delivered no less than three days before the sentencing hearing. Schofield continued the sentencing so that an interview can be conducted and the report delivered in a timely fashion.
Jensen had been scheduled for sentencing Friday on four second-degree felony charges of sex abuse and one first-degree felony charge of sodomy.