Justice can be denied.īut bogeymen don’t always look like monsters. It’s also true that juries can make mistakes. I suspect there will always be those like Melissa and Dowd who cannot fathom that this good guy could break bad.
“My hero miss you and your post and chatting,” a woman named Melissa wrote on Sarver’s Facebook. Sarver, whose criminal record was nearly spotless save for a traffic citation, was arrested shortly afterward and remained jailed on pretrial detention over concerns for the safety of his accuser and the number of firearms at his home.įew friends knew why he had suddenly vanished. In March 2021, the boy was interviewed a second time and disclosed more disturbing recollections about assaults that occurred while a gun was pointed at his head or resting on his buttocks and one assault in which he had tried to run away but was knocked to the floor by being zapped with a Taser, according to the complaint. Sarver also wanted to photograph the boy, but the boy declined. Sarver, he said, started giving him small gifts like candy and Legos and sometimes tried to touch his private areas.
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Sarver was among 18 finalists that year, earning a mention in the Christmas Eve edition of the Journal.Īccording to the criminal complaint, Sarver’s comments included saying the boy was “the right age,” “perfect looking” and had “beautiful eyes,” as if he was infatuated with the boy.Ī full year later, the boy was interviewed and began disclosing how he went to Sarver’s home believing he was going to help with firewood but that Sarver often just wanted him to hang out. Sarver seemed to be a worthy Angel nominee even without considering the years he had opened his mountain home to foreign exchange students and volunteered with the Boy Scouts.
“I’m delighted,” she wrote back that December in 2013, giddy that her pick, Dave Sarver, had a chance to be feted on the front page of the Journal for his work as a dog rescuer and a foster parent for pups whose humans are deployed in the military service of the country. Anyone anywhere in New Mexico who is an unsung hero doing good deeds for others is eligible. She was excited that her nominee for the Journal’s annual Angels Among Us award was indeed eligible, concerned as she had been that his living in Tijeras would preclude his inclusion. In 2013, Sarver was a finalist in the Albuquerque Journal’s Angels Among Us award, given annually to New Mexico’s unsung heroes doing good deeds. Some who know Sarver were shocked and questioned the verdict. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office announced that David Sarver, 80 ,of Tijeras was convicted Tuesday of sexually molesting a preteen boy for two years.
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