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Update: Court Officials tell KSL the hearing is not scheduled for today.Gene Kennedy Reporting
A Southern Utah jail served as a confessional for a man who says he molested two girls. Today that man appears in court for a preliminary hearing.
Investigators in Washington County say this case is unusual. Police have heard confessions over property crimes, but they typically don't hear confessions of something this serious.
Nestor Cabada walked into the Washington County jail and started confessing that he sexually abused two girls over the last three years. The man was remorseful, crying, and spilling details so quickly that a lieutenant had to cut him off to read him his Miranda rights.
Investigators say they have confirmed Cabada's story with victims in Hurricane and Washington City.
Cabada has been booked into the Purgatory correctional facility.
Cabada turned himself in when a clergyman from the Jehovah's Witness church urged him to go to police and "Get right with God."
He made the confession to Lt. Jake Adams, as reported in the Deseret Morning News, "He made reference to being worried about his eternal soul for what he had done. I don't know if he wanted to get help for himself. I get the sense he wanted his victims to have access to help."
The lieutenant says what Cabada did was noble and courageous. And as far as justice is concerned, he should get what he deserves.
Nester Cabada is charged with 13 counts of rape, sodomy and aggravated sex abuse of a child.
