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Posted: 11:11 AM- A Duchesne County businessman serving 15 years in federal prison for taking pornographic pictures of a 14-year-old boy was sentenced Thursday to another 10 years to life in state prison for sexually abusing the same victim.
Brad Gale, 50, had pleaded guilty last year in Roosevelt's 8th District Court to four first-degree felonies for repeatedly sexually abusing the boy.
Judge John Anderson ordered the state convictions to run consecutively to the federal crimes.
Gale - part-owner of Gale's Office Supply & Books in Roosevelt and Vernal, which sells LDS Church books and scriptures - was also charged in Utah County for sexually abusing the same boy there.
In the Utah County case, Gale placed the boy, naked, in a leather chair hanging from the ceiling of the Provo home of 76-year-old John West, who watched as Gale sexually abused the boy.
West pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of sexual battery and was sentenced to probation and two weeks in jail.
The case also affected Roland Uresk, who was a deputy Duchesne County Attorney in September 2005 and May 2006 when he received information the boy was being abused, but failed to report it to authorities.
Uresk, who has said he took no action because he got the information third-hand, resolved his case last year with a no contest plea in abeyance.