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Former Utah County Attorney David Leavitt has outrun accusations of an illegal adoption and ritualistic child abuse after attorneys within US Homeland Security Investigations shuttered an investigation into his actions.
In an exclusive interview with The Last American Vagabond, a former Homeland Security Investigations analyst reveals how he was targeted by the US government for pursuing an investigation into a powerful Utah politician following a controversial adoption of a Native American baby.
The analyst said that he and his colleague were sidelined after attempting to subpoena the Mormon Church’s internal hotline for reporting sexual abuse as part of their investigation. The federal government would eventually turn its focus to him after he questioned why charges had not been filed, despite an admission of guilt by the suspect.
“They spent $2 million investigating, and they couldn’t even arrest me. They got into my phone, my iCloud, and still couldn’t find anything to arrest me on,” the analyst told The Last American Vagabond (TLAV) over the phone. “This was under Biden… signed off on by Secretary Mayorkas.”
Alejandro Mayorkas served as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under former US President Joe Biden.
The analyst requested anonymity to speak freely on his role in the investigation. TLAV has independently verified the claims made by him.
Ritualistic Child Sexual Abuse
This saga begins with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office (UCSO) May 31, 2022, announcement that an investigation into “ritualistic child sexual abuse and child sex trafficking” in Utah County had begun in April 2021.
The UCSO statement noted that “multiple county and federal agencies are investigating reports of ritualistic child sexual abuse from as far back as 1990.” The investigation subsequently discovered previous reports alleging “similar forms of ritualistic sexual abuse and trafficking” that occurred in Utah County, Juab County, and Sanpete County during the time between 1990 and 2010.
In September 2022, former therapist David Hamblin was the first suspect to be arrested and charged by the UCSO for multiple first-degree felony sexual offenses against a child. He was booked for three counts of sodomy of a child, one count of rape of a child, two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, and one misdemeanor count of lewdness involving a child. His ex-wife, Roselle Stevenson, was later arrested on similar charges.
Despite Hamblin’s admission that he raped his own daughter, by April 2025 all the charges against him would be dropped. This was the second time in the last decade Hamblin was arrested and accused of abusing his daughters and other alleged victims. In 2012, The Utah Daily Herald reported:
“A Provo man was arrested earlier this week on several rape charges stemming from incidents in the 1990s. David Hamblin is being charged with 12 counts of rape of a child, three counts of sodomy of a child, one count of attempted sodomy of a child, all first-degree felonies, and two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony.
The charges are based on events that reportedly happened between 1991 and 1998.”
Charges against Hamblin would be dismissed without prejudice in 2014. The 2025 dismissal was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be refiled in the future.
Victims’ statements from the 2012 case describe David Hamblin as committing abuse as part of a cult made up of local Utahns. The statements claim the cult was responsible for rape, murder, and cannibalism of children. Hamblin and others accused in the 2012 case were also members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church. As TLAV has previously reported, the Mormon Church has a history of covering up abuse of children.
“It’s a lot of couples. There’s a lot of people involved, but, you know, we were looking at probably eight targets, the closest people to Hamblin,” the analyst said.
Two of those people accused of being involved with Hamblin and the cult were former Utah County Attorney David Leavitt and his wife Chelom.
The Press Conference
David Leavitt served as Utah County Attorney from 2018 through 2022. He is the younger brother of former three-time Utah Governor Michael Okerlund Leavitt. The father of the two men is Dixie Leavitt, the founder of the Leavitt Group, one of the largest independent insurance brokers in the nation.
One day after the UCSO announced their investigation, Leavitt held a press conference declaring that he was not a cannibal or a murderer. He claimed the Sheriff’s investigation was a political attack on him related to his upcoming primary election.
“I learned that my wife and I were part of those allegations, alleging that we were guilty of cannibalizing young children and murdering young children,” Leavitt stated during his press conference.
While he did not mention David Hamblin by name, Leavitt said the Sheriff’s investigation was related to charges filed against an unnamed man more than 10 years ago. Leavitt said the charges were dismissed because “the evidence was so outlandish and so unbelievable.”
Leavitt also shared a 151-page document titled “victim statement” related to David Hamblin’s 2012 case involving allegations of sexual abuse of children. The document includes Leavitt’s name, as well as more than a dozen people accused of practicing ritual sexual abuse of children. He described the report as “151 pages of utter baloney” and called the woman who made the allegations “tragically mentally ill.”