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Adventures With Purpose (AWP) founder Jared Leisek has been accused of two counts of child rape that allegedly took place in 1992. And he was arrested in Utah on January 5. 

The victim is allegedly a relative who was 9 or 10, at the time. And Leisek was 16 or 17 years old when the incident took place.

The bail amount was not available in the Sanpete County jail booking records. And it is unknown if he is still in custody.

In 2013 Utah removed the statute of limitations for these types of cases.

According to court documents the first incident occurred in the alleged victim's bedroom in Ephraim, Utah.

Child rape complaint in Utah

Deputy County Attorney Arek E. Butler said in the criminal complaint, "Just before November 1, 1992, the victim lived in Ephraim, which is located in Sanpete County.”

And that "the defendant pinned the victim to the ground" and "pulled her underwear down and put his penis in her vagina."

Per the documents, the second alleged incident occurred at their grandparents' house in Manti, Utah, that same year.

"During another incident that same year, the defendant and victim were at their grandparents’ house in Manti when the defendant laid on top of the victim and put his penis in her vagina," the complaint alleges.

Randy Richards, an attorney representing Leisek claimed that "this is a 30-year- old case, we dispute the allegations, we say that this never happened, and it is difficult to work on a case like this, but we do have evidence to prove that he didn't do what she claimed."

The second incident allegedly occurred at their grandparents' house that same year.

A series of leaked emails is said to be a correspondence between Liesek and the relative. It says he "made peace in my life with all things bad including this."

He mentioned his Mormonism. And said he regretted his actions. "I am so very sorry for the things that we cannot change," Leisek allegedly wrote.

About Adventures with Purpose

Adventures With Purpose hosts a popular YouTube channel with almost three-million followers and 295,881,424 streams on the platform. It is a volunteer search and rescue group.

 AWP has had success with closing some decades-old cold cases. And located 21 submerged bodies since they began this work. 

Liesk’s Oregon-based group’s latest recovery was the body of missing California 16-year-old Kiely Rodni in her silver Honda CRV.

The YouTuber explained that “Families [of missing people] saw what it is that we were capable of. We can go out. We can search. We can find. We can float, and we can recover these vehicles.”

 ‘We have a lost loved one. Jared, do you think that you and your organization can come to help us out?’” He added.

AWP group member Doug Bishop noted that "These allegations are serious. What allegedly happened 30 years ago should not take away from the amazing work the team has done in this world over the past two years. The [courts] will write the ending of this story. The parties involved will have their voices heard," Bishop added.