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(Las Vegas-AP) -- Mormon church officials searched the computer of a child molestation suspect in Las Vegas before police did.
But the church says no files on 33-year-old Robert Stevenson's computer were deleted or altered.
Stevenson is a substitute schoolteacher awaiting trial in Las Vegas on lewdness and sex assault charges.
He was arrested July 16th and charged with trying to have sex with an eight-year-old boy during a sleep-over at Stevenson's house.
He's also charged with molesting a 12-year-old family member.
Southern Nevada Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spokesman John Hanks says church leaders searched Stevenson's computer to see if there were other victims in their congregation.
A Clark County prosecutor says it's unclear whether the criminal case could be affected by someone accessing the computers before police seized them.
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