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SALT LAKE CITY — A Herriman man convicted earlier this year of inappropriately touching a woman on a UTA TRAX train is now accused of inappropriately touching a child on a train.
Isaac Frank Yazzie, 31, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with child kidnapping and aggravated sexual abuse of a child, first-degree felonies.
On June 26, a 12-year-old girl boarded a TRAX train in Salt Lake County.
"Yazzie sat next to (the girl) in a way that prevented her from getting up from her seat," according to charging documents, adding that Yazzie then made inappropriate comments to the girl and pulled her shirt down.
"(The girl) mouthed 'Help me' to another passenger and he intervened, allowing (the girl) to move to another part of the train," the charges state.
The girl provided police with pictures of the bruises that Yazzie allegedly caused. Investigators also reviewed surveillance video from the train which recorded Yazzie touching the girl inappropriately.
The alleged incident happened just over two months after Yazzie was convicted of sexual battery, a class A misdemeanor, for inappropriately touching a 19-year-old woman on a TRAX train. The woman boarded a train at 225 E. 400 South on Jan. 30, when Yazzie came up from behind and grabbed her, according to court documents.
He was sentenced in that case in April to probation, and then a short jail sentence in July for violating the conditions of his probation, court records state. According to a progress report filed in May with the court, Yazzie's risk factor was listed as "very high."
Yazzie was also convicted of sexual battery in 2014 for engaging in sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl, according to court records. He was sentenced to a year in jail with credit for the 150 days he had already served since his arrest.
