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LOGAN — A former employee at a state juvenile services facility in northern Utah recently convicted of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl is now facing a new charge after police say a second victim came forward.
Wesley Kendall Allen, 40, of Richmond, Cache County, was charged Wednesday in 1st District Court with rape, a first-degree felony.
On March 20, Allen was convicted of object rape, two counts of forcible sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of a minor and witness tampering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 8.
In that case, Allen was working as a staff member at the Cache Valley Youth Center in Logan where a teenage girl was being housed. The girl "disclosed during her stay at the facility, she had a sexual relationship with Wesley Allen. (She) described how Wesley had taken her to a portion of the facility without video surveillance" and returned to that same area several times where he sexually abused her, according to court documents.
The girl's mother found her daughter's journal and entries in which she wrote "about Wesley and not getting in trouble with the police," a police affidavit states. The girl told investigators that Allen "spoke about keeping things on the down low until she turned 18. He told her he would help her get a driver's license and passport. Welsey told (the girl) he would take them out of the country to live.
"Wesley Allen used his position of trust and knowledge to groom and perpetrate a child," Logan police wrote. "This behavior is predatory and shows the intent to groom minor victims."
In a new police booking affidavit filed in connection with the latest allegations against Allen, police noted that during their investigation into the previous case it was discovered that he "accessed protected records to identify the vulnerability of that victim."
Investigators believe Allen also preyed upon the vulnerability of his second victim.
Because of media coverage of the first case, a second woman reached out to authorities. She says she was 16 when she was sexually assaulted by Allen in 2005, when he was 24, according to the affidavit.
"The second victim talked about being in a trying time of her life with a past abusive relationship and difficult home life. It was likely Wesley would have known about the difficult and vulnerable life of the second victim," the affidavit states.
Police say the woman was able to describe details of Allen's apartment at the time, where she says was where she was raped.
"The second victim described being fearful of refusing to have intercourse with Wesley due to his size and law enforcement capacity," the affidavit says.
Police confirmed that Allen was a reserve officer in 2005.
"During the investigation it was found Wesley had been terminated from several places of employment for inappropriate sexual behavior between 2007 and 2022. In these terminations, he was in a position of trust," according to the affidavit. "During the course of the investigation, it has been shown a pattern of seeking out vulnerable victims for sexual purposes."
