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Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock warned on jail visits to wife

by Yvonne Wingett and JJ Hensley - Mar. 4, 2011 12:00 AM

The Arizona Republic

A top Maricopa County Sheriff's Office official has warned county Supervisor Fulton Brock that his visitation rights may be revoked if he continues to violate jail policies by delivering food to his wife in jail.

Brock's wife, Susan Brock, was arrested on sex-related charges in October and is being held in the Estrella Jail. On Jan. 24, she pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor. She is awaiting sentencing.

Sheriff's Deputy Chief Jack MacIntyre said he warned the county supervisor against taking food to his estranged wife after learning of Brock's actions.

"He did it once, and I called him immediately and said, 'That's wrong, and if I hear about it happening again, your visitation will be denied,' " MacIntyre said.

After police arrested his wife, Fulton Brock said through a public-relations spokesman that he was "appalled and crushed" by details of the sex scandal. Within weeks of her arrest, the supervisor filed for divorce, yet continued to visit his wife in jail, sometimes taking their children and food with him.

The Sheriff's Office granted Brock special visitation rights so that he could visit his wife without being recorded and with no set time limits. Those "courtesy visits" are not unusual in high-profile cases. On Feb. 8, The Arizona Republic asked for Susan Brock's visitation logs and audio and video recordings made by the Sheriff's Office during those visits. The agency has not yet produced the materials.

Bringing outside food to inmates is prohibited in the jails for security reasons, primarily to prevent contraband from being smuggled to inmates through food. It also reinforces the notion that all inmates are treated equally.

In Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail, that means dining on a notoriously unpalatable menu that meets U.S. Department of Agriculture dietary guidelines but contains little or no salt or flavor.

Asked about the visits and the food, the supervisor told The Republic, "I am not going to discuss any activity or behavior or comment about my wife." But he acknowledged that he was "chastised because I actually brought my wife some Scriptures. I didn't even know you weren't supposed to bring a Bible down there."

Brock added, "I think many people recognize me and just allow me to come in. I fully understand why it's important and what inmates can do and what they shouldn't do, and that's basically about all I really want to say. I support the sheriff; I support his policies."

The sheriff's policy on visitation provides for courtesy visits, which jail commanders can authorize at their discretion. The policy states that the courtesy visits "may be used for such matters to include, but not be limited to, death notification by the family member or out-of-state visits that have unique circumstances."

The visits are also authorized for bondsmen and medical providers.

These courtesy visits were allowed by the Sheriff's Office under that policy because of Fulton Brock's position as a high-profile locally elected official visiting a defendant in a case that received extensive media coverage.

Brock has been a longtime political ally of Arpaio's and is his strongest supporter on the Board of Supervisors.

Recently, Brock met with Senate President Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, to suggest legislation that would retroactively allow county officials to accept and use a controversial $456,000 bus that supervisors believe the Sheriff's Office purchased illegally.

Piggies want a handwriting sample from Supervisor Brock

Supervisor Brock's writing sample sought by police

by Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Laurie Merrill - Apr. 4, 2011 02:35 PM

The Arizona Republic

The Chandler Police Department has served a search warrant seeking writing samples from Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, whose daughter and wife are accused of sexual misconduct involving a Chandler teen, The Arizona Republic has learned.

Brock, a Chandler Republican and longtime politician, has been dealing with the sex scandal for months. His wife, Susan Brock, 49, will find out later this week how much prison time she faces for sexually abusing the same Chandler teen her daughter, Rachel Brock, is accused of molesting.

Rachel Brock, 22, was rearrested last week and accused of sexual conduct with a minor and furnishing obscene materials to a minor.

The supervisor filed for divorce shortly after his wife's arrest last year. The divorce is pending, but Brock has visited his wife regularly in jail, even prompting a warning after being caught violating policies by taking her fast food. He was also seen kissing her goodbye after a lengthy visit in January, prompting an inmate complaint.

Brock told The Republic Monday morning he could not comment about the handwriting samples being sought by investigators.

"I probably am going to be wise in saying I should not have any comment at all on that subject," he said. "My reticence is because there are both criminal and civil implications and the attorneys have said, 'Please, just don't say anything to anybody in this point in time.' I've got to get my wife's situation behind us and see what we can do to mitigate any accusations against my daughter."

Later, Brock released a statement saying, "I am surprised by these new requests and questions. It is not conceivable that any decent human being could somehow conspire or condone such acts, if they knew them to be occurring. I most certainly did not. My family has been torn apart. Another family has been terribly harmed. My wife lied to me. She is sick and will be sentenced this week. I am in the final stages of divorce. I have cooperated with law enforcement and will of course continue to do so. In turn, I hope they will conduct themselves with the utmost professionalism."

Rachel Brock, who had been attending Brigham Young University, pleaded innocent last week during a video arraignment to seven charges of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of furnishing obscene materials to a minor.

Police say Rachel's reported acts with the Chandler teen began before her mother's.

Fulton Brock's office staff would not comment on latest developments, but acknowledged Chandler police called the office on Friday, and that the supervisor canceled various appointments on Monday's calendar to deal with law enforcement and his wife's impending sentencing.

In a plea agreement two months ago, Susan Brock admitted to attempting to perform sex acts on the Chandler boy at her home, in her car and in a bathroom when he was 14. The plea bargain dismissed 12 counts and reduced the severity of the remaining three.

She faces a presumptive prison sentence of 10 years on one count of attempted sexual conduct with a minor, Pinal County Superior Court Judge Pro Tem Hank Gooday said recently. She could be sentenced to anywhere from seven to 15 years.

She initially was indicted on 15 child-abuse counts for allegedly molesting the teen.

Gooday set aside two days for sentencing, as opposing lawyers will present their cases for stiffer or more lenient sentencing within plea guidelines.

Both sides will present reports researching Susan Brock's personal history. Typically, character and other witnesses are expected to testify.

A year before Susan Brock was arrested, her relationship with the teenager raised concerns. The boy's parents and his high school principal warned Susan Brock to stay away, according to a Chandler police report. And in October 2009, a year before her arrest, the Brocks met with the local president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the boy's parents, the report said.

Rachel Brock's case, meanwhile, was reassigned to Gila County Superior Court Judge Peter J. Cahill to avoid a conflict of interest, given Fulton Brock's political position in Maricopa County.

Susan Brock's case was reassigned to Pinal County.

Rachel Brock's initial pretrial conference is scheduled for May 13. If the state offers Rachel Brock a plea agreement, it would be extended before May 3, according to court papers.

7 to 15 years for giving a BJ???

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Susan Brock to be sentenced this week

by Laurie Merrill - Apr. 3, 2011 01:32 PM

The Arizona Republic

Susan Brock, 49, will find out Wednesday or Thursday how many years she will spend behind bars for sexually assaulting a Chandler teen.

Brock, who is married to County Supervisor Fulton Brock, pleaded guilty in January in a case that shocked the county involving a boy her daughter, Rachel, 21, is also accused of molesting.

Fulton Brock filed for divorce to end his 28-year marriage to his wife shortly after her arrest. The Chandler couple has three daughters.

In a plea deal two months ago, Susan Brock admitted to attempting to perform sex acts on the Chandler boy at her home, in her car and in a bathroom when he was 14. The plea bargain dismissed 12 counts and reduced the severity of the remaining three.

She faces a presumptive sentence of 10 years on one count of attempted sexual conduct with a minor, Pinal County Superior Court Judge Pro Tem Hank Gooday said recently. She could be sentenced to anywhere from seven to 15 years.

She was indicted on 15 child-abuse counts, which did not include intercourse, for allegedly molesting the teen.

Gooday set aside two days for the proceeding as lawyers will present cases arguing for a stiffer or more lenient sentence within the plea guideline.

Both sides will present reports researching Susan Brock's personal history. Typically, character and other witnesses are expected to testify.

A year before Susan Brock was arrested, her relationship with the teenager was raising concern. The boy's parents and high school principal warned Susan Brock to stay away. In October 2009, a year before her arrest, the Fultons met with the local president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the boy's, according to a Chandler police report.

Between the October 2009 meeting and her October 2010 arrest, Susan Brock committed 15 more illegal acts involving her teenage victim, according to the indictment.

Last week, Rachel Brock, 21, pleaded innocent during a video arraignment to seven charges of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of furnishing obscene materials to a minor.

Police say Rachel's reported acts with the Chandler teen began before her mother's.

Rachel Brock's case was reassigned to Peter J. Cahill, Gila County Superior Court judge, to avoid a conflict of interest because of Fulton Brock's political position.

Susan Brock's case was reassigned to Pinal County.

Rachel Brock's initial pretrial conference is scheduled for May 13. If the state offers Rachel Brock a plea agreement it would be extended before May 3, according to court papers.

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Susan Brock sentencing hearing: She showed remorse

by Laurie Merrill - Apr. 6, 2011 03:01 PM

The Arizona Republic

Susan Brock showed remorse when evaluated by a psychologist and said she needed to be punished, a psychologist testified Wednesday during a pre-sentence hearing.

A series of tests showed that Brock is a low risk of recidivism and she is not a sexual deviant, according to the evaluator, who also recommended Brock be "rehabilitated in the community."

A hearing began today in Maricopa County Superior Court to determine how much prison time Susan Brock, 49, will face for sexually abusing a Chandler boy starting when he was 14.

Brock, who is married to County Supervisor Fulton Brock, pleaded guilty in January in a case that shocked the county. It involved a boy her daughter, Rachel, 22, is also accused of molesting.

Fulton Brock filed for divorce to end his 28-year marriage to his wife shortly after her October arrest. The Chandler couple have three daughters.

In a plea deal two months ago, Susan Brock admitted to attempting to perform sex acts on the Chandler boy at her home, in her car and in a bathroom when he was 14. The plea bargain dismissed 12 counts and reduced the severity of the remaining three.

She faces a presumptive sentence of 10 years on one count of attempted sexual conduct with a minor, Pinal County Superior Court Judge Pro Tem Hank Gooday said recently. She could be sentenced to anywhere from seven to 15 years,

She was indicted on 15 child-abuse counts. Gooday set aside two days for the proceeding as lawyers will present cases arguing for a stiffer or more lenient sentence within the plea guideline.

Both sides will present reports researching Susan Brock's personal history. Typically, character and other witnesses are expected to testify.

The victim and his family are invited to attend, as are family members of Susan Brock. It is possible the boy she abused she will be in court today. Susan Brock's mother and youngest daughter have regularly attended her court proceedings. Fulton Brock may be present as well.

Police and court records show that a year before Susan Brock was arrested, her relationship with the teenager was raising concern. The boy's parents and high school principal warned her to stay away. In October 2009, a year before her arrest, she and Fulton met with the local president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the boy's, according to a Chandler police report.

Between the October 2009 meeting and her October 2010 arrest, Susan Brock committed 15 more illegal acts involving her teenage victim, according to the indictment.

Rachel Brock, 21, pleaded innocent Thursday during a video arraignment to seven charges of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of furnishing obscene materials to a minor.

Police served a warrant Friday for samples of Fulton Brock's handwriting, presumably to match it to a document they intend to use in Rachel's case, police have said.

Fulton Brock said in a statement: "I am surprised by these new requests and questions. It is not conceivable that any decent human being could somehow conspire or condone such acts if they knew them to be occurring. I most certainly did not."

13 years in prison for giving a BJ? How do you spell insane????

I guess it could be worse. The Christians used to burn gay folks at the stake for the capital crime of being gay. I sure hope Russell Pearce isn't reading this. That may give him some ideas for a new law in Arizona.

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Susan Brock sentenced to 13 years in prison

by Laurie Merrill - Apr. 7, 2011 10:38 AM

Arizona Republic

Susan Brock, the wife of a Maricopa County Supervisor, was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday after she admitted to having sexual conduct with a Chandler teenage boy.

Brock, 49, the wife of County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was facing between five and 15 years after pleading guilty to abusing a Chandler boy.

She pleaded to reduced charges after being indicted on 15 counts of child abuse that police started when the boy was 14 and ended when he was 17.

Pinal County Presiding Superior Court Judge R. Carter Olson handed down the sentence on Thursday. Brock was also given lifetime probation and will get sex offender status upon her release from prison.

"She preyed on the boy," Pinal County Deputy Prosecutor Jason Holmberg said Thursday. She convinced him his parents were his enemies.She showered him with gifts and filled his head with perverted fantasies."

Wednesday's testimony was graphic and at times so painful the victim's father hung his head and the Brocks' youngest daughter ran from the courtroom.

Brock pleaded guilty in January in a case that shocked the county.

It involved a boy her daughter, Rachel, 22, is also accused of molesting.

Mormon church's role in Susan Brock sex scandal?

But many religions often do. And as in this case they are often hypocrites with double standards. and turn a blind eye when their silly, prudish rules are broken.

My view is that if parents don't want their kids to have sex, they should supervise their kids so it doesn't happen. I don't think it should be the job of the government.

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Expert likens Mormon church's role in sex case to Catholic abuse scandal

Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011 5:02 am

By Mike Sakal, Tribune East Valley Tribune

Of all the gifts displayed in a Maricopa County courtroom that Susan Brock gave to a teenage boy she was molesting - a diamond ring to give to his girlfriend, an Xbox 360, $100 pairs of jeans, $70 shirts - a gift she gave the boy's family stood out above the rest: A professionally framed black-and-white photograph of the Arizona Mormon Temple in Mesa under a dark, cloudy sky.

The image of the temple was symbolic of how Brock partially used philosophies of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints to seduce the boy: by making him feel guilty for what she told him was an "adulterous" relationship with her and that if he told, his parents would have him taken away.

That relationship, of course, did eventually come to the attention of the Mormon church. And, once the LDS became involved, it raised another difficult issue: What obligation, if any, does a church have to report criminal behavior to authorities if that behavior was told in confidence either through confession or confidential communication?

By law (ARS 13-3620), a clergy member "who has received a confidential communication or a confession in that person's role as a member of the clergy... may withhold reporting of the communication or confession if the member of the clergy determines that it is reasonable and necessary within the concepts of the religion."

In essence, it can fall under the same protection as attorney-client privilege.

During Brock's sentencing on Thursday to 13 years in prison for three counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor, prosecutors portrayed the Mormon church as complicit in concealing the crimes.

In October 2009, the victim's parents became concerned about Brock's fascination with their son and met with LDS church officials and Brock to discuss allegations of sex abuse, according to prosecutors. Brock denied any wrongdoing.

The church became involved again in October 2010 when the victim's girlfriend intercepted a sexually-charged text message Brock sent to the boy. The girlfriend brought it to the attention of her parents, who then told the boy's parents about it. According to prosecutors, the boy's parents then told a fellow parishioner who was a former Chandler police officer that something needed to be done.

"If that girlfriend would not have seen that text message and told her parents about it, the relationship between Susan Brock and the boy still could be going on today," said Pinal County Deputy Prosecutor Jason Holmberg.

Robert DeFrancesco, a spokesperson for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, said clergy are not permitted under the Seal of the Confessional to disclose such matters directly or indirectly to civil authorities. However, when a member of the clergy receives a confession of a crime, they can encourage the perpetrator to stop what they're doing, turn themselves in to police or approach the victim or their family and inquire about such crimes and encourage them to go to authorities.

Kim Farah, a spokesperson for the LDS church, said that is precisely what happened in the Brock case.

"This matter was reported to the police when it was first disclosed to church authorities before Susan Brock confessed," Farah said in a statement. "One of the victims reported to the police as encouraged and facilitated by the church.

"Arizona law is clear that no priest can disclose any confession even when it concerns child abuse. Nevertheless, church leaders worked effectively within the law, and with those involved, to facilitate prompt reporting to the police while protecting the victim.

"It is absolutely false to suggest that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints engaged in doing anything other than help bring the perpetrator to justice in this tragic case."

A Tucson-based attorney who has handled sex abuse cases for 25 years told the Tribune the LDS church should have reported the allegations of sexual abuse when they first came to their attention in 2009, not one year later when the text message evidence came to light.

"It's not a confession and it's not privileged information if there is more than one person or a group of people meeting with clergy or priests to discuss it," said Lynne Cadigan, who has settled many civil cases with the Catholic Diocese of Tucson. "They should have gone to police. It sounds like what they did is similar to what the Catholic Church did (when the priest scandal emerged). They would sweep all of their knowledge of the sex abuse under the alleged umbrella of confession so they could claim they had no obligation to report it.

"They clearly have a duty to report it," Cadigan added. "Any information that was reported during that meeting in 2009 should have been reported to the law."

Farah told the Tribune there was not enough evidence after the 2009 meeting to determine whether a crime had been committed.

Tim Eckstein, attorney for the victim's family, said the family was satisfied with how church officials handled the situation.

• Contact writer: (480) 898-6533 or msakal@evtrib.com

Susan Brock asked for conjugal visits

Susan Brock asked for conjugal visits, complained about food

by Laurie Merrill and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez - Apr. 12, 2011 11:51 AM

The Arizona Republic

In recorded jailhouse phone conversations with her husband, Susan Brock complained bitterly about the food, asked for conjugal visits and told her husband how much she loves him.

She and her husband, County Supervisor Fulton Brock, also discussed how the sheriff's office had stopped investigating him for securities violations. Brock was long thought to be one of two county supervisors unscathed by the criminal investigations and vitriolic war that have eclipsed county government in recent years. The revelation that he, too was under investigation by county law enforcement came as a surprise.

Susan was arrested Oct. 22 and sentenced last week to 13 years in prison for molesting a family friend who had been hanging out at their house since he was 11. Police say she groomed the boy by giving him thousands of dollars in cash and gifts and committed dozens of sex acts.

Fulton Brock filed for divorce from his wife of 28 years in November. Yet, he called and visited her regularly, was warned by top sheriff's officials his visitation rights may be revoked if he continued to deliver food to his wife in jail, and drew complaints from one inmate who saw him kissing his wife goodbye after one visit. In the phone recordings, Susan Brock said she was "literally starving to death" and had suggestions for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on cost-effective methods to improve food quality.

At one point, Fulton talked of pizza he enjoyed with the couple's middle daughter, Rachel, 22, who has since been charged with eight sex abuse counts for allegedly molesting the same boy.

"Food, glorious food!" Susan said. "Will you remember that when you come tomorrow?"

Fulton laughed and said, "I get you."

In a conversation on Nov. 18, Fulton revealed to his wife that the Sheriff's Office had been investigating him for securities violations, but that they had dismissed the reports.

"Is that the stupidest thing you've ever heard in your life?" Fulton asked his wife.

"Yeah, well . . . it could be you . . . sitting in Durango," she said, referring to a county jail.

"Well, except I haven't done anything," he responded.

The exact nature of the investigation, however, is still unclear. The Sheriff's Office has not yet produced documents requested by The Arizona Republic on the case and Brock's county office and the County Attorney's Office have said they have no records pertaining to the investigation.

Attorney Wayne Howard said that Fulton feels sorry for his wife, whom he views as sick and in need of treatment.

"It's hard on him," Howard said last week. "He wants to help her."

He brought her a hamburger once, Howard said, because she wasn't getting enough protein.

The pair discussed strategy at times. Fulton told her on Nov. 20, "You're going to have to ask to soften the victim's parents and the other teenager's parents, too, because they seemed to be driving a stake, or trying to drive a stake." Fulton was referring to the boy's parents as well as the parents of the boy's former same-age girlfriend. Susan was accused of providing condoms and places for the young couple to have sex.

On Dec. 7, Susan said, "And . . . why don't you check and see if they let couples have visits here? "Yeah, I'll do that," Fulton responded. "But I think that would be a little over the top for a jail."

"Well, just ask someone discreetly then," Susan responded, and they both laughed.

On Dec. 28, Susan said, "I just miss everybody so much. I just feel you slipping away. I seriously feel like I'm a dead person in here."

In the last recorded call released by Chandler police, Susan said, "I do love you very much, and I'm in love with you and I wished they'd let me be alone with you."

$15 to hang a political sign, $5 for a signature?

Hmmm ... so why on earth is their a requirement to collect signatures to run for office if some stranger is going to collect signatures from people you don't even know?

I suspect the answer to that question is to make it difficult for people to run for office.

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Victim in sex abuse case worked on Fulton Brock's campaign

by Laurie Merrill and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez - Apr. 13, 2011 11:39 AM

The Arizona Republic

While Susan Brock was sexually abusing a Chandler boy, her husband's campaign committee was paying thousands of dollars to the victim and his family for work during the the supervisor's 2008 re-election.

Altogether, "Friends of Fulton Brock" paid $8,730 to the victim and three other members of his family during Brock's 2008 campaign. The boy, then 15, and his sister mostly erected signs, while the victim's older brother and mother mostly collected signatures for petitions, according to records obtained by The Arizona Republic from the Maricopa County Elections Office.

County Supervisor Fulton Brock was president of his campaign committee while his wife, Susan Brock, acted as its treasurer.

The Brocks and the victim's family had been close for years, authorities said. Their friendship began when the boy's family delivered cookies and a butterfly to the Brock home after the Brocks' oldest daughter suffered an epileptic seizure, according to Pinal County Deputy Attorney Jason Holmberg.

Little did the family know, Holmberg said, that they were taking cookies "to a woman who would destroy their family."

Susan Brock, accused of molesting the boy repeatedly for three years starting when he was 14, was sentenced last week to 13 years in jail.

According to attorneys and police and court records, there is no evidence that Fulton Brock or the victim's family knew in 2008 of the dozens of sex acts Susan Brock was accused of performing on their son.

By then, Susan Brock had been molesting the youth for at least a year, the prosecutor said.

"I understand the families were very close," said Timothy Eckstein, the victim's advocate whose law firm, Osborn Maledon, has been retained to look into seeking damages for the boy's pain and suffering.

"I don't think the (victim's family) had any notion of (the abuse)" in 2008, Eckstein said.

The families both belonged to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, vacationed together, and in 2008, campaigned together.

The boy hung out with the Brocks starting around age 11, not realizing that the gifts, money and attention Susan Brock showered upon him were "setting a trap" for his sexual abuse, the youth said in a statement read in court last week.

"If the families were as close as they are saying, it would not be unusual," Jason Rose, Fulton's spokesman, said of the campaign expenditures. "Your nucleus (of helpers) is your family and friends."

According to finance records, "Friends of Fulton Brock" paid the older brother $2,998 mostly for collecting signatures. Rose said signature collectors often are paid by signature, usually between $1 and $5 for each one.

The victim's mother was paid $3,422 for collecting signatures and also for installing and removing campaign signs, the records show. The victim's sister was paid $650 for sign installation, and the victim was paid $1,660 for sign installation and removal.

Rose said campaign workers often are paid between $5 and $15 per sign, which are very difficult to hammer into hard Arizona ground. In a campaign like Fulton Brock's, there would have been hundreds of signs to install, repair and remove, he said.

Two of Fulton and Susan Brock's three daughters received about $1,000 each for sign work as well. One of them was Rachel Brock, 22, who stands accused of molesting the boy starting when he was 13 years old and she was 18. She is held without bond on eight sex abuse counts.

Police say Rachel Brock's abuse of the boy began the summer before her mother started abusing him in the fall of 2007, Holmberg said.

Susan Brock wants a pardon

It's a waste of our tax dollars jailing the woman for 13 years for the victimless crime of consensual sex with a minor.

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Brocks discussed seeking governor's pardon

by Laurie Merrill - Apr. 14, 2011 02:30 PM

The Arizona Republic

A jailhouse tape released today shows that Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and his wife Susan discussed the possibility of seeking a pardon for her from Gov. Jan Brewer.

However, Brewer never wound up discussing a pardon with Brock for his wife, Susan, 49, who last week was sentenced to 13 years in prison for sexually abusing a Chandler youth. Nor does the governor have the power to pardon, said Matt Benson, her spokesman.

"In her conversations with Fulton Brock, Governor Brewer has merely expressed sympathy for her longtime friend and colleague," Benson said. "It's noteworthy that Arizona law doesn't provide governors the sole authority to pardon. Rather, pardons must go through the Board of Executive Clemency."

The tape of the phone call was recorded at Maricopa County Jail and was released by Chandler Police, who investigated the case.

During the call, Fulton Brock discusses a brief conversation he had with the governor at Durant's Restaurant near downtown Phoenix.

Fulton: "I ran into the governor today."

Susan: "Jan?"

Fulton: "Yeah."

Susan: "What did Jan say?"

Fulton: "She was with three other ladies . . . .I shook her hand and said 'I just wanted to say hello and thank you - she called me twice - I want to thank you for those phone calls. I said they meant a lot and I deeply appreciated it. I shook her hand, smiled, and started to walk away."' "

"She said, 'come back here.' She shook my hand again and said we need to have lunch. Then just nodded like, is that okay with you, and I said, 'you bet,' and she said, 'let's make that happen."'

Susan: "You need to have lunch with her. Wow. That's great."

Fulton: "She has the power to pardon."

Susan (laughing): "I'm going to need it. Tell her I'd be happy to tell her my side of the story. She is welcome to come and hear it from the bird . . . .They call me songbird in here. Actually, music bird and song bird, those are my names. "

Asked about the conversation of pardons, Brock told The Arizona Republic, "Yes, it did come up, but in the context that the governor has a soft place in her heart for behavioral health problems because of a member of her family," he said, referring to the governor's son, who has lived at the Arizona State Hospital for most of the past 20 years.

"My wife has some needs that behaviorally-health-wise, are not going to be met in prison. I had contemplated that as a framework to possibly consider speaking to her (the governor) on my wife's behalf."

In the end, Brock said he did not talk with Brewer about the case.

Brewer "continues to pray for each of the families involved in this human tragedy," Benson said, referring to the Brocks and the victim and his family.

Fulton Brock Lied to Police?

Brock Family Circus

County Supervisor Fulton Brock Lied to Police About Knowing of Wife's Sexual Abuse of Teenage Boy, Report Shows

By James King, Thu., Apr. 14 2011 @ 4:52PM

Chandler police concluded that Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock knew of his wife's affair with a teenage boy before her arrest.

​If there was any doubt that Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock knew about the sexual relationship his somewhat-estranged wife, Susan Brock, was having with a teenage boy, a report released today by the Chandler Police Department clears that up.

As New Times has noted, Supervisor Brock, his wife, the parents of the teenage victim, and officials with the Mormon Church met in October of 2009 to discuss suspicions that Susan Brock was having a sexual relationship with the victim.

According to the CPD's heavily redacted 26-page report, on the day of his wife's arrest, when asked what "the gist" of the meeting with church officials was, Brock told a Chandler detective that he was "so reluctant to say anything that would implicate my wife. We did have a meeting with [the victim's parents] several months ago, and [the victim's father] did give me an iPhone he said was either my daughter's or my wife's. That's all I know. I'm pretty much in the dark on this stuff."

Brock then reiterated that he "did not want to implicate his wife."

However, Brock's claims that he was "in the dark" about the relationship between his wife and the boy didn't pass the smell test for the detective.

In his report, the detective writes, "The statement that Mr. Brock made of being 'completely in the dark' is inconsistent."

The detective notes a conversation he had on December 15, 2010 with Troy Hansen, a bishop at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who said Fulton Brock had been informed by Bishop Mathew Myers that Susan Brock had admitted to him that she'd performed oral sex on the victim on at least two occasions.

The conversation where the Bishop told the county supervisor about his wife felating the boy took place on October 12, or October 13, the report states. Susan Brock wasn't arrested until October 26, which means her county supervisor husband knew about the affair for at least two weeks before he was contacted about it by police.

We say "at least" because even though Supervisor Brock doesn't want to talk about the 2009 meeting with church officials, the detective cites the meeting as a reason he finds the county supervisor's claim that he was "in the dark" about the relationship to be "inconsistent."

In the report, the detective writes that the victim's father asked Susan Brock "if she was having 'sexual relations' with [the victim]. [The victim's father] told me that he asked Susan Brock directly in front of Fulton Brock."

Aside from probably knowing about the affair at least a year before Susan Brock's arrest, in the days leading up to her arrest, it appears Fulton Brock was trying to help his wife prepare for a meeting with someone recommended to them by attorney Larry Kazan to discuss the sexual relationship with the boy.

The day Susan Brock was arrested, she told the arresting officer that it was his "lucky day" because of some incriminating notes in the front seat of her car. The notes were titled "History."

At the top of the page, there were a "series of questions, presumably for a person Susan Brock was going to meet with," the detective notes.

On the third line of the note, the report states, were the words "how much might we cover in an hr?" Under that line, were three questions:

"Mr. Larry Kazan said we could do hr. billing. Your rate is____?

"Intake treatment SLC goal. Avoiding prison goal. Putting life order keeping family together.

"[Redacted] mother, daughter, girlfriend, extorteda..

"Mentally insane defense [redacted]?

"Any sexual felony difference intercourse or fellatio minor?"

The detective concluded that "after reviewing the document and looking at numerous documents signed by Mr. Brock, I believe that the letter was hand-written by Mr. Brock and the writings were instructions for Susan Brock with pointed questions she was to ask of a lawyer."

Authorities then compared the note to handwriting samples taken from Fulton Brock. He could not be ruled out as the author of the note.

In his conclusion of what Supervisor Brock knew of the affair, the detective writes that "although Mr. Brock authoring this letter may not rise to the level of probable cause, it does refute his statement that he did not learn of his wife's relationship with [the victim] until October 26, 2010."

Fulton Brock clearly knew more than what he initially told police. However, the Chandler Police Department tells New Times there is currently no criminal investigation into the county supervisor

The CPD says its focus is now on Brock's daughter, Rachel, who is accused of having sex with the same teen boy her mother sexually abused, and on Christian Weems, a friend of Susan Brock's who allegedly helped destroy evidence in the case.

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Liar!

Mormon Church Denies Prior Knowledge of Susan Brock Affair With Teen Boy, Which is a Lie

By James King, Mon., Apr. 18 2011 @ 9:32AM

​The Mormon Church claims it never knew one of its members, 49-year-old Susan Brock, the somewhat-estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was sexually abusing a teenage boy before her arrest..

This, according to court documents obtained by New Times, is a lie.

The church issued the following statement amid criticism that it knew of the relationship and didn't report it to police:

"Any allegation that Church leaders knew of abuse but did nothing is inaccurate and offensive. The Church is extremely proactive in its efforts to protect children from abuse of any kind, and works diligently to support and assist victims of abuse. When abuse does occur we work to see that it is reported to the authorities."

In reality, the Church knew of the abuse before the victim's parents were even told -- about two weeks before Brock's arrest -- and never called police.

According to court docs, the relationship was uncovered by the victim's girlfriend, who discovered sex-themed text messages between Brock and the victim on the boy's phone. The girl told her parents, who contacted Susan Brock, as well as her county supervisor husband, to tell them they knew of the abuse.

Rather than call the police, Fulton Brock called his bishop at the Mormon Church, to whom Susan Brock admitted having a sexual relationship with the boy.

When the boy's parents were told of the affair, rather than immediately call police, they also contacted their bishop in the Mormon Church.

As the father of the victim later told police, after meeting with Church leaders, he was "under the impression" cops would be called. But they weren't -- as the boy's father was waiting for Church leaders to alert authorities of the abuse of his teenage son, he figured he'd just call them on his own.

But that wasn't the first time the Mormon Church learned of suspicions that Brock was abusing the boy.

In October 2009, about a year before Susan Brock's arrest, the Brocks and the victim's parents met with leaders in the Mormon Church. The topic of conversation: suspicions that Susan Brock was having sex with the teenage victim.

If we had suspicions that a middle-aged woman was sleeping with our teenage son, our first call is going to be to police -- not our church. Call us crazy.

Nobody called police, though -- not Fulton Brock, not the boy's parents, and not the Mormon Church.

The abuse of the boy continued for a year before police were notified -- and when police were notified, it wasn't by Mormon Church officials.

So when the Mormon Church tries to say that "when abuse does occur we work to see that it is reported to the authorities," just know that, in the words of Senator Jon Kyl, it's probably "not intended to be a factual statement" -- because it's not, it's a lie.

First I don't think that Susan Brock did anything wrong. She had consensual sex with a minor and although that is currently illegal, it is a victimless crime and I don't think it should be illegal.

Despite the fact that I think Susan Brock is being railroaded for a victimless crime I think her husband Fulton Brock is being a hypocrite for trying to cover up the crime.

The usual "Do as I say, not as I do" line which our royal rulers frequently have.

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Fulton Brock knew about wife abusing boy according to note

by Laurie Merrill and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez - Apr. 20, 2011 12:00 AM

The Arizona Republic

In the weeks before his wife was arrested, Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock had been told his wife was sexually abusing a teenage boy, and he wrote a note detailing plans for how to deal with the claims, according to a Chandler police report.

Police said the note, dated Oct. 19, 2010, and other evidence refute Brock's assertions that he did not know about his wife's actions until her Oct. 26 arrest.

Officers said the note may not show probable cause that Brock committed a crime, although prosecutors have said they are still examining evidence in the case.

Brock did not respond Tuesday to repeated messages left at his county office and home and on his cellphone, but he earlier told The Republic that claims he knew of his wife's physical actions were inaccurate.

In a supplemental report released last week, Chandler police said a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bishop told them Fulton Brock had been told by another church leader on Oct. 12 or 13 that his wife had performed oral sex on the victim at least twice.

A Pinal County prosecutor has said the note, found in Susan Brock's car the day she was arrested, indicates Brock was planning to deal with accusations against his wife by turning blame on her accuser.

Chandler police, in their report, said the note included pointed questions that Susan Brock should ask a defense attorney, including queries about a "sexual felony" relating to different activities with a minor and a reference to a "mentally insane defense."

The note, although cryptic, cites two goals: "Avoid prison" and "intake treatment" in Salt Lake City.

The state Department of Public Safety Crime Lab analyzed the note. Chandler police said Tuesday that the lab confirmed the note was written in Fulton Brock's handwriting.

While Brock did not comment on Tuesday's development, in an interview with The Republic last week, he disputed claims that he was informed of his wife's sexual activities before her arrest.

"I did not know the nature of my wife's misbehaviors, and that is absolutely incorrect," he said.

Brock said he heard from the mother of the victim's girlfriend two weeks before the arrest.

"She said there was some serious texting going on, and it was of an adult nature, and it was not good," Brock said.

But he said his wife refused to discuss in detail her activities with the boy. Brock said he only became aware of the specific details once Chandler police began releasing information after her arrest.

Asked why he did not immediately report his wife's activities to the police, Brock responded, "I didn't know what had happened because my wife had not disclosed to me what she had done. I did not see, and I was not a party to whatever it was that the victim's girlfriend's mom was referring to."

"I was literally kept in the dark until the information started leaking from the police reports," Brock said.

Susan later pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor and was sentenced earlier this month to 13 years in prison. Conflicting statements

Immediately after Susan was arrested Oct. 26, Fulton released a statement saying his family was "flabbergasted."

"Even with this statement, I am not sure how to express what such a shocking emotional punch to your heart and family feels like. I am stunned," the supervisor said.

A few weeks later, Brock filed for divorce from his wife, whom he met when she was 15.

In the report released last week, Chandler police Detective Christopher Perez wrote that Fulton's claim of "being in the dark" about his wife's activities is contradicted by two events: A meeting with the East Chandler Stake president in October 2009, during which Susan was initially accused of molesting the boy, and a phone call from Bishop Matthew Meyers on Oct. 12 or 13, 2010, in which Fulton was told Susan admitted she performed oral sex on the teen.

However, Jason Rose, Brock's publicist, said Tuesday, "Fulton has been consistent in his statements about not knowing the magnitude of her actions. His wife did not come clean with him." The note

Pinal County Deputy Attorney Jason Holmberg, said earlier this month that the supervisor seems to be suggesting in the handwritten note strategies and questions for Susan to discuss with an attorney.

Fulton also wrote, "iPod Touch Susan . . . sexting/vulgar/conversations." The police report notes there is a check mark next to this item with the word "done."

Fulton also seemed to be exploring a strategy of blaming the victim, Holmberg said, by saying the teen assaulted Susan, Rachel Brock, 22, and the boy's girlfriend.

In the end, no such strategy was used in court, and Susan agreed to a plea deal.

In his interview last week, Fulton said he was focusing his energy on his daughter Rachel, who is being held without bond on eight counts of abusing the same boy her mother was accused of abusing.

"I just find the things that happened shocking and disappointing. And, at this point in time, I'm just hopeful that my daughter can be able to have a fair consideration of whatever it is that may have happened to her and the victim," Fulton said. "I'm just hoping to forgive all the parties involved and try to spend as much time as I can figuring out how this happened, and what I can do to be there for my daughter."

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Excerpts from police report related to Susan Brock case

Apr. 20, 2011 12:00 AM

The Arizona Republic

The handwritten note

"I told Mr. Brock that when I arrested her, she was in possession of a series of papers titled 'history.' On top of that printed history was what appeared to be a handwritten note. This handwritten note was located inside an envelope that had previously been torn open. When I arrested Mrs. Brock, the letter and history were both seized. The lined paper contains handwriting in ink and has what are a series of questions, presumably for a person Susan Brock was going to meet with. On the third line (was) the text "How much might we cover in an hr.?"

Under that line:

"Mr. (an attorney) said we could do hr billing. Your rate is (deleted)"

"intake treatment SLC goal. Avoiding prison goal. Putting life order keeping family together. (deleted) mother, daughter, girflriend, extorteda . . . "

"Mentally insane defense (deleted)?"

"Any sexual felony history intercourse or fellatio (of a) minor?"

-From Chandler police report filed by Officer Christopher Perez, March 23. The handwriting on the note was confirmed by the Arizona Department of Public Safety Crime Lab to be that of Fulton Brock. Conflicting statements

"The statement Mr. Brock made of being 'completely in the dark' is inconsistent with that given by Troy Hansen (Bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) during a telephone interview on December 15, 2010. According to Bishop Hansen, Fulton Brock was advised on October 12 or 13 (2010) by his Church Bishop (Bishop Matthew Meyers, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints McQueen 2nd Ward) of Susan performing oral sex (by her own admission) on at least two occasions. That is, Bishop Hansen related being contacted by Bishop Meyers via telephone on Saturday October 9th or Sunday October 10. Meyers told Hansen that Susan Brock had admitted to Susan Meyers she had performed oral sex on (the victim) at least two times. Additionally, Fulton Brock was present at a meeting with Mrs. and Mrs. (the victim's parents) in October of 2009 when Mr. (the victim's father) told me that he asked Susan Brock directly in front of Fulton Brock. Also, Mr. and Mrs. (the victim's parents) were armed with order of protection paperwork that had been filled out. They brought it in order to scare Susan Brock and explain how serious they were about her staying away from their son."

-From the Perez police report

Arizona law requires you to snitch on your neighbor!

I also disagree with all laws that make sex between consenting persons illegal.

Some people probably think that Susan Brock is a pervert, and that may be true. But I certainly don't think Susan Brock is a criminal!

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Arizona law: Duty to report abuse

Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3620

"Any person who reasonably believes that a minor is or has been the victim of physical injury, abuse, child abuse, a reportable offense or neglect that appears to have been inflicted on the minor by other than accidental means or that is not explained by the available medical history as being accidental in nature . . . shall immediately report or cause reports to be made of this information to a peace officer or to Child Protective Services in the Department of Economic Security, except if the report concerns a person who does not have care, custody or control of the minor, the report shall be made to a peace officer only."

"A member of the clergy, Christian Science practitioner or priest who has received a confidential communication or a confession in that person's role as a member of the clergy, Christian Science practitioner or a priest in the course of the discipline enjoyed by the church to which the member of the clergy, Christian Science practitioner or priest belongs may withhold reporting of the communication or confession if the member of the clergy, Christian Science practitioner or priest determines that it is reasonable and necessary within the concepts of the religion. This exemption applies only to the communication or confession and not to personal observations the member of the clergy, Christian Science practitioner or priest may otherwise make of the minor."

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Experts: Church erred in Brock sex case

Church leaders held back key details, officials say

by Laurie Merrill - Apr. 24, 2011 12:00 AM

The Arizona Republic

Law-enforcement authorities said local leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints never reported information to police that could have protected a teenager abused by Susan Brock, wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock.

Church spokeswoman Kim Farah said leaders did report the abuse, but she declined to provide details on who was told and when. The LDS church, based in Salt Lake City, would let Farah be quoted only for this story. Farah said the actions of the church were appropriate.

Susan Brock, 49, was arrested after the victim's parents reported to Chandler police on Oct. 22 that their son told them he had been abused for three years. Brock was sentenced on April 8 to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor.

The parents initially expressed their concerns in October 2009 during a meeting with the Brocks and Chandler Stake East President Mitch Jones, police records show. The stake president is a lay leader at an intermediate level of the church, representing a group of congregations.

Armed with an order of protection against Susan, the parents said she was having an inappropriate relationship with their son, giving him expensive presents, texting and phoning him and bringing him lunch at school. During the meeting, the father asked Susan, "Are you having sexual relations with my son?" She replied, "No, I am not."

Police and court records say that Susan had been sexually abusing the boy for two years at that point and that the abuse continued for another year.

In October, Susan Brock admitted to Bishop Matthew Meyers that she had molested the teen three times, the records show. The bishop is the lay leader of the local ward, or congregation.

Still, the bishop did not go to police, Deputy Pinal County Attorney Jason Holmberg said during Susan Brock's April 7 presentence hearing.

On Oct. 19, the father and his son went to Bishop Troy Hansen and told him the abuse was far worse and extensive than Susan Brock had acknowledged, the records show. But the crimes were not reported until Oct. 22, when the father, "tired of waiting," took his son to the Chandler Police Department, Holmberg said. October '09 meeting

The victim's parents suspected something was wrong in October 2009 and expressed their concerns to Jones and the Brocks, police records show. At this point, scholars and church members said, Jones had the option of bringing the boy in for questioning.

"Missing . . . is any indication that (the boy's parents), or the stake president, or anyone else, actually confronted (the victim) in October 2009 with a suspicion that he had been intimately involved with Susan," said Armand Mauss, in response to a description of events.

"The boy might well have admitted the relationship then and there, saving a year's time in the arrest of Susan," said Mauss, a sociologist known for his expertise on the Mormon Church.

For six years, Mauss has taught courses in Mormon studies as adjunct faculty in the School of Religion of Claremont Graduate University in California.

Barbara Dorris, outreach director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, based in Chicago, concurred.

"What is missing here is nobody put the needs of the child first," Dorris said. "This is not a normal relationship (the boy and Susan's). I have six kids and I have never brought lunch to any kid any day.

"Then there was the secret cellphone," she said, referring to a phone Susan had given the teen that the boy's mother returned to her in October 2009. "All those red flags are there."

Former U.S. Attorney Mel McDonald of Phoenix, who has worked on church-sex cases, disagreed, saying he doesn't think the stake president had a duty to report.

Whether the president should have interviewed the boy is a judgment call, said Lisa Davis, an investigative journalist and author of "The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal, Conviction and the Mormon Church." Church leaders in such situations "are not required to," said Davis, who lives in the San Francisco area. October 2010

Police say Susan committed her last act with the victim on Oct 5.

On Oct. 8, she gave the boy's cellphone to his girlfriend and asked her to give it to him. Instead, the girlfriend was "shocked," according to reports, by sexually explicit texts and videos Susan sent the boy. The girl told her mother, who told the boy's mother.

On Oct. 9-10, Susan told Bishop Meyers she molested the teen but did not admit the dozens of acts on which she would later be indicted nor discuss the longevity of the abuse.

This meeting likely would be deemed a "confession," protecting Susan with the clergy-penitent relationship, said several of those interviewed. But the exemption does not apply to the evidence provided outside of confession, such as comments from the boy's father.

"The bishops should have said, 'You call police or we will immediately,' " said Dorris, of the priest-abuse survivors group.

Davis agreed that when the father of a victim comes to a religious leader and says someone has been harming his child, it is not a protected conversation.

"The question is, what happened between the 19th and 22nd (when the boy and his dad reported the crime to Chandler police)?" Davis said. "Was the bishop counseling the father to go to police? If so, he is pretty much in the clear."

Holmberg said the bishop did not contact police. Protecting the victim

A basic principle of the Mormon Church is to protect any victim, said Lavina Fielding Anderson, described as a Latter-day Saint scholar, writer, editor and feminist.

"The Church's position is that abuse cannot be tolerated in any form," according to "Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops."

"Those who abuse or are cruel to their spouse, children, other family members or anyone else violates the laws of God and man."

Churches and the state give great discretion to the clergy, especially if the information is presented during a confession. Arizona law says clergy "may withhold" information, even child abuse, learned during confession. Without the clergy-penitent privilege, talking to the clergy would be akin to talking to police.

But Jan Shipps, described as a U.S. historian specializing in Mormon history, said "the issue is whether there was a defined responsibility or not."

"Otherwise, it is left to the discretion of the church," said Shipps, a professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. The role of clergy

The Brock case is the latest in a long-running debate over the role of clergy in sexual-abuse cases.

In July, two Valley pastors were arrested on suspicion of failing to report reputed sex crimes against two girls in a case that highlighted the state's mandatory reporting rules for crimes against children. That case, involving a church in Glendale, is pending in Maricopa County Superior Court.

In 2003, Bishop Thomas O'Brien, head of the Phoenix Diocese of the Catholic Church, acknowledged that for decades, he had covered up allegations of sexual abuse by priests. O'Brien previously had revealed that at least 50 priests, former priests and church employees had been accused of sexual misconduct with children in the Phoenix Diocese.

Authorities say they are continuing to investigate the Brock case. They have declined to say whether they are considering any legal action involving LDS church leaders.

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Maricopa County judge refuses to seal Brocks' divorce case

by Laurie Merrill - Apr. 28, 2011 05:19 PM

The Arizona Republic

A judge has refused to seal the divorce case of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and his wife, Susan, despite Brock's claim that publicity could damage his career and his youngest daughter's well-being.

"Any public interest regarding this matter is due only to (Fulton's) position as an elected public official and due to the sordid nature of the charges against (Susan Brock)," Fulton Brock's attorney wrote in the motion to seal the case.

Susan Brock, 49, was convicted April 7 of molesting a Chandler teenager in a case that has generated a fire storm of media attention not only for her actions but also because of questions about what her husband, and church officials, knew and when.

Fulton Brock "should be permitted . . . to continue to serve the people of Maricopa County without fear of the fallout from the disclosure of personal details of this matter," says the motion, submitted by Brock's divorce attorney Kristy Blackwell.

Susan Brock had no objection to the motion to seal. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Robert Miles denied the motion to seal the entire file, but said he would consider sealing sensitive future filings.

First-amendment attorney Dan Barr and family law attorney Annette Burns said in interviews that the publicity of the divorce could not be any worse than Fulton Brock has already endured. His wife's criminal case has put the family under a microscope.

"This is a high public official in a matter where his wife has been convicted of a serious crime," said Barr. "Of course this is going to impact his political career. It might as well be accurate instead of general and rumored."

Burns said that for a short time, any high profile or wealthy person could get divorce files sealed. Now, courts seal files mainly to protect the best interests of a minor child or a party from physical or emotional harm, she said.

"For at least the last 10-15 years, the courts have been really reluctant to seal an entire file," Burns said. "But they will go in and seal custody reports, custody evaluations."

Such is the divorce case of Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash. Though Judge Carey Hyatt ruled against Nash's motion to seal the case, Judge Thomas LeClaire has sealed many of the child custody proceedings.

Rachel Brock, 22, the middle daughter in the Brock family, is held without bond on charges she molested the same boy, who is four years her junior. The family's youngest daughter, 14, still lives at the family's Chandler home.

Susan Brock was accused of committing dozens of sex acts over a three-year period on a teen whose family attends the same church, the Chandler East Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Though Fulton filed for divorce shortly after his wife's arrest, the couple's marriage was sealed for eternity in the church, and it is unclear if Fulton has requested a cancellation of the seal.

He has frequently visited his wife, and was reprimanded for smuggling food to her. An inmate complained after watching the couple engage in a good-bye kiss. Susan said recently she is still in love with him, according to jail recordings.

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Fulton Brock sought sex-abuse attorneys before wife's arrest

by Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Laurie Merrill - May. 5, 2011 06:10 PM

The Arizona Republic

More than a month before the arrest of his wife, Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock asked the county's top prosecutor for a list of criminal-defense attorneys who specialize in cases involving sexual abuse of minors, The Arizona Republic has learned.

The revelation is the latest indication that Brock may have been aware of his wife's sexual involvement with a minor even though he has repeatedly denied knowledge of her crimes before her arrest.

In the early days of September 2010, Brock asked then-interim County Attorney Rick Romley for the referrals, sources told The Republic. Romley confirmed he recommended a list of three attorneys and personally delivered them to Brock's county office.

Romley said Brock told him he was seeking the referrals for a friend. "Yes, he came to me saying he needed some names for a friend that specialize in that area," Romley said Thursday. He declined to discuss the matter in detail.

Chandler police say Brock wrote a note two weeks before his wife's arrest, which included a list of questions his wife was to ask of a criminal-defense attorney. Romley said an attorney named in the note was among those he recommended to Brock.

Brock's request of Romley suggests that the politician was not totally "flabbergasted" about his wife's activities, as he has previously said.

Susan Brock, 49, was sentenced April 7 to 13 years in prison after being convicted of three counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor.

Since his wife's arrest, Fulton, an East Valley Republican, has repeatedly refused to discuss in detail when he first learned of his wife's sexual activities with a minor. On Thursday, he was asked about the list of attorneys during an appearance at a county program and again declined to comment, saying, "I can't comment on anything relative to that."

On Oct. 26, Susan was arrested on suspicion of committing sexual acts over a three-year period with a teenage boy, starting when he was 14. Police say she gave the boy, a family friend who attends the same church, lavish gifts for two years before sexually molesting him.

Police say Fulton was informed of his wife's sexual activities before her arrest. Fulton has repeatedly disputed those reports. He has said he learned of her actions only in the days after her arrest.

However, Chandler police contradict Fulton's statements:

- Fulton was present in October 2009 when the teen's father directly asked Susan if she was having sexual relations with his son, police said. She denied it. When the boy's mother tossed a cellphone to Susan that she had given the victim, Fulton grabbed it and kept it. Nearly a year later, while Chandler investigators were searching the Brocks' Chandler residence, Fulton first told police he didn't have the phone; but then, 45 minutes later, he unlocked a box and produced it.

It is unclear what images or messages the phone contained from Susan or the teen, or whether Fulton had looked at them, but police have said the messages on the phone contained sexual innuendo.

- Two weeks before Susan was arrested, police say, Bishop Matthew Meyers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints informed Fulton that his wife had admitted to masturbating the boy twice.

- There is evidence that Fulton had an inkling of his wife's impending arrest before the actual arrest. Susan was on her way to an attorney the day police picked her up. She had in her car an envelope containing her personal account of events and a letter, handwritten by Fulton, suggesting ways to keep her out of prison and keep their family together.

Included in those plans, Pinal County Deputy Attorney Jason Holmberg said in a pre-sentencing hearing for Susan, was a strategy to accuse the victim of sexually assaulting Susan and Rachel Brock and claim he was extorting money. Rachel is Susan and Fulton's 22-year-old daughter.

The detective investigating the case said that despite the handwritten note found in the car and police saying that the LDS bishop alerted Fulton to his wife's actions, the evidence doesn't rise to the level of probable cause that Fulton Brock hindered or obstructed the case.

Police have said repeatedly that they are focusing on Rachel and Christian Weems, a friend of Susan's.

Rachel is being held without bond on charges that she, too, molested the same Chandler teen. Rachel is accused of committing oral and masturbatory sex with the boy from August 2006 to August 2008.

Weems, 37, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing a criminal investigation and conspiring to commit computer tampering in Susan Brock's case. Police said Weems, a friend of Susan's, helped her by deleting potentially incriminating files in the Yahoo! account of the boy.

Chandler police Sgt. Joe Favazzo has told The Republic that there is no plan to pursue charges against Fulton and that police were not made aware that he had asked for a list of attorneys.

"Clearly, that would indicate Fulton knew what was going on, but we don't have credible evidence to support that theory," Favazzo said. Asked if police have discussed the matter with Romley or intend to, Favazzo responded, "As far as I know, we have not. We wouldn't have reason for it."

Susan Brock and a good number of Catholic priests arn't the only people who love to have sex with underage children. Cops love children too, well in a Biblical sense!

From a Libertarian point of view it shouldn't be any of the government business when two consenting people have sex. So I don't have a problem with the cops have sex with these underage kids, assuming the sex is consensual, which at least one of the ones in this article wasn't consensual.

The problem I have is the cops don't obey the same laws that they force the rest of us to obey!

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Second Sheriff Deputy Accused of Sex With Explorer Scout

KTLA News

3:18 p.m. PDT, May 6, 2011

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KTLA) -- A second San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputy has been arrested for allegedly having sex with an underage old Explorer Scout.

Authorities say 30-year old Deputy Anthony Benjamin was a supervisor of the youth program in Victorville and that assault occurred during a ride-along.

The 5-year veteran is facing two counts of sex with a person under 18.

Benjamin is the second San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy associated with the Explorer Scout program to be arrested on sex charges.

Deputy Nathan Gastineau was arrested on April 22 on suspicion of having sex with a 16-year-old Redlands girl.

Gastineau was in charge of the Explorer program at the sheriff's station in Highland.

This attack also allegedly occurred a ride-along.

Jason Anguiano, 27, of Rialto, who is not a deputy, is accused of having sex with the same girl and also was arrested.

As a result of the charges, San Bernardino County Sheriff Rod Hoops ordered a review of the program and has suspended all ride-alongs for the next 60 days.

The Explorer Scout program allows young men and women the opportunity to train and ride-along with deputies.

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Susan Brock molestation case: LDS bishops won't be charged

by Laurie Merrill and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez - May. 19, 2011 02:32 PM

The Arizona Republic

Two bishops from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints will not be charged in connection with the molestation case of Susan Brock, 49, even though they knew the county supervisor's wife had committed sex acts on a minor, prosecutors said Thursday.

The Pinal County Attorney's Office told The Arizona Republic that after a review of the case, no charges will be sought, said Kostas Kalaitzidis, a county spokesman.

In a related development, a plea-bargain appears to be in the works for Rachel Brock, 22, who is charged with eight child abuse counts for allegedly abusing the same boy her mother molested. A conference is scheduled June 8 "to conduct a settlement conference in this matter," according to court papers.

According to court records and Pinal County Deputy Attorney Jason Holmberg's arguments in court, Susan Brock, who is serving a 13-year sentence for molesting the victim, admitted to LDS Bishop Matthew Meyers on Oct. 9 or Oct. 10, 2010, that she had committed sex acts on the teen. Meyers is the bishop of the Brock's ward.

Brock confided she had performed just two acts. Brock was initially accused of committing dozens of sex acts on the boy over three years. The abuse started when he was 14 and she was 45.

On Oct. 12 or 13, Meyers told Bishop Troy Hansen, the bishop of the victim's ward, that Brock had admitted to sexually abusing the boy, Holmberg said during Brock's pre-sentence hearing.

On Oct. 19, the boy and his father met with Hansen, and the boy disclosed the full extent of the abuse. Hansen, Holmberg said, learned the abuse was far worse than Susan had described.

Neither bishop, Holmberg said, went to police.

On Oct. 22, "tired of waiting," the father and the victim went to the Chandler police, Holmberg said. Susan Brock was arrested. Her husband, Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, filed for a divorce weeks later.

The Mormon church has said from the beginning the bishops acted properly.

"Arizona law is clear that no priest can disclose any confession even when it concerns child abuse," Kim Farrah, church spokeswoman, said in a statement. "Nevertheless, Church leaders worked effectively within the law, and with those involved, to facilitate prompt reporting to the police while protecting the victim."

Clergy are required to report abuse under state law, but they have more discretion than other mandatory reporters such as teachers or doctors, according to the statute.

The Arizona statute on reporting crimes says clergy "may withhold" information, even child abuse, learned during a confession.

It was not a confession when the father and the boy told Hansen about the abuse. The church has stated that it urged the boy to tell police, but there is no evidence to support that claim.

The former stake president, Mitchell Jones, knew that the victim's parents suspected child abuse at least a year before the arrest. He had the option to interview the boy, but chose not to.

Meanwhile, Rachel Brock, held without bond, has a settlement conference in two weeks that could result in a plea bargain, according to court papers.

Rachel is formally charged with seven counts of sexual conduct with a minor for allegedly committing sex acts over a two-year period. She is also charged with one count of furnishing obscene materials to a minor.

During the pre-sentence hearing, Holmberg said Rachel performed 45 non-intercourse sex acts and sent 25 pictures and videos, while the boy "was still in junior high school."

Rachel was 17 and the boy 13 when she performed a first sex act on him during a family trip to California, police said.

Susan began molesting the boy the following fall, police say. Susan said in a letter that Rachel had confided to her about the sex acts, Holmberg said.

I think this is a silly law that certainly is not Libertarian and it should be repealed.

My problem here is that Fulton Brock thinks he is above the law and that he should not have to obey it.

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Supervisor Fulton Brock denied parenting class waiver

by Laurie Merrill and Yvonne Sanchez Wingett - May. 26, 2011 07:21 PM

The Arizona Republic

Despite his request to avoid it, County Supervisor Fulton Brock won't be allowed to sidestep the parenting class required of every person with a minor child who gets divorced in Arizona.

"It's a statutory requirement," said attorney Keith Berkshire, who heads the family law department of Rose Law Group of Scottsdale. "I've never heard anyone request to waive it."

Berkshire said it would cost $300 in legal fees to prepare a motion asking to waive a $39 course one can take online.

Brock filed for the waiver April 26 for reasons mainly stemming from the sex abuse case against his wife, Susan, who is serving 13 years in prison for molesting a teenager for three years.Superior Court Judge Robert Miles, who is presiding over the Brock divorce, denied the motion Tuesday.

Brock's attorney, Kristy Blackwell, argued that the Brocks' youngest daughter is 17, and that because of her mother's prison term, "co-parenting after a divorce is not an issue for these parties."

She also argued that because Fulton is a public figure, "attendance at a public class . . . could result in unnecessary media attention and the disruption of the class for other attending individuals."

An estimated 24,000 Arizonans divorce annually.

Most people taking the parenting classes, which are private, keep to themselves, said Steve Wolfson, divorce attorney for Arizona Suns star Steve Nash.

It is not as if there are private eyes or paparazzi following his (Fulton's) every move," Wolfson said.

Nor should the child's age be a factor, Wolfson said. "Parents benefit from education regardless of (kids') ages."

Wolfson, a divorce attorney for 20 years, has often represented prominent business people and athletes who travel, but none has requested a parenting-class waiver.

"All of them have participated," said the Phoenix attorney. There is also a four-hour online option available without the court's permission. In the motion, Brock's attorney said that as a second choice, Brock should be allowed to take the online "Impact of Divorce on Children" class.

The classes help parents understand their children's emotions and teaches skills for helping them cope. Parents are told, for example, that it takes a child an average of three years to get over a divorce, three times longer than it takes their parents.

The class advises parents not to badmouth each other, or use their children to spy on or pass messages to former spouses. It offers suggestions on when and how to introduce a new paramour to the children, among other tips.

On April 27, one day after the motion was filed, Superior Court Judge Timothy Ryan granted it. It is unclear why Ryan was involved in the divorce, and Miles subsequently vacated the ruling.

Miles is assigned to the case until the end of the month, when due to rotation, Superior Court Judge Chistopher Whitten will take it over.

The divorce was postponed 60 to 90 days, according to Jason Rose, Fulton Brock's spokesman. The trial date is Sept. 1.

Susan, representing herself, appears to be getting cold feet about cooperating in the case, Rose said.

"I want to make it abundantly clear that Fulton wants to proceed post haste," Rose said.

The Brocks' middle daughter, Rachel, 22, is being held without bond on charges she molested the same boy her mother was convicted of molesting. Rachel's alleged crimes occurred for two years starting when the boy was 13 and she was 17. She is charged with sexual conduct with a minor and furnishing obscene materials to a minor.

Fulton Brocks homes

4465 S. Virginia Way
Chandler

402 E. Mead Drive
Chandler

4201 S. Newport Drive (being foreclosed)
Chandler

Brock divorce may be headed for trial, court papers reveal

by Laurie Merrill - Jul. 1, 2011 10:31 AM

The Arizona Republic

County Supervisor Fulton Brock continues to uncover large debts his wife incurred by giving cash and extravagant gifts to a teenager she molested, and he now believes his divorce is heading for a trial, according to court papers.

The victim's family will soon seek damages and Brock, 59, has two homes with no equity and one under foreclosure, the papers reveal.

Brock has requested and received court permission to file an amended pleading based on what the court papers describe as "marital waste," referring to tens of thousands of dollars Susan Brock spent on the Chandler victim.

Susan Brock, 49, is serving a 13-year sentence for molesting a family friend for three years starting when he was 14.

"As part of that illicit relationship, (Susan Brock) spent enormous amounts of community funds on expensive gifts for the minor male," Fulton Brock's attorney, Kristy Blackwell, wrote.

"The total amounts wasted are unknown to date. (Fulton) continues to discover new debts, credit cards, secret lines of credit and missing funds."

Brock drained her own retirement account, robbing her husband of his community interest in the money, the papers say.

Brock spent $4,000 at Kay Jewelers, presumably for a diamond ring that prosecutors say she gave the victim to give to his teenage girlfriend. She withdrew an estimated $10,000 on a line of credit she opened without Brock's knowledge, $5,000 in other credit-card debts, $52,000 from her retirement and $40,000 she spent on legal fees, the papers say.

Brock gave the victim several iPods and iPhones, a special edition Xbox 360 and numerous games, underwear, jeans, T-shirts, a sniper rifle, two assault rifles, an M-1 carbine, a bolt-action rifle, a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun, a pistol, paint-ball supplies and a pistol, according to court papers.

She also gave him $100 about 10 times after she touched his genitals, prosecutors said.

Brock purchased many items online and had them sent to her mother's home because otherwise "Fulton would get mad," the victim told police. [ Does this mean Fulton throws temper tantrums? ]

Fulton Brock's attorney says it appears the victim and his family are about to seek civil damages, and as part of her sentence the criminal court ordered Susan Brock to pay up to $1 million in restitution to the families of the boy and his former girlfriend.

Susan Brock "should be solely responsible for payment of any restitution arising from her criminal conviction and should also be solely responsible for any civil claim," the papers say.

The Brocks own four residences, the family home at 4465 S. Virginia Way, Chandler, valued at $500,000; a home in which Susan's mother resides at 402 E. Mead Drive, Chandler, valued at $250,000; a residence at 4201 S. Newport Drive, Chandler, valued at $400,000; and a California time share.

Fulton Brock says all should be awarded to him. The Newport Drive property is under foreclosure, and there is no equity in the homes on Virginia Way and Mead Drive, the divorce papers say.

Fulton also seeks sole custody of the couple's youngest daughter, 15, and wants to keep his four retirement accounts and three vehicles, a 2003 Honda, 2007 Honda and 2005 Lexus, the papers say.

Until May 2, when Susan Brock stopped cooperation, the Brocks had been attempting to resolve their divorce out of court, according to the papers.

Brock is defending herself in the divorce, and is unavailable to comment because she is in prison.

Brock filed for divorce Nov. 9, shortly after his wife's October arrest on child-abuse charges.

For more articles on Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and his wife check out this web page this one and this web page and last but not least this web page.

And here is the last set of articles on this insane case of government abuse.