I presume that 27-year-old Broch DeGraff is a guilty pervert who molested two teenage girls on multiple occasions. It appears he’s already admitted to some of it. These girls were students at Liahona Preparatory Academy, an LDS Church-themed private school that serves students pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Police say DeGraff, a coach at the school, started with innocent text messages to gain trust and gradually lured the girls to late-night meetings where forcible sexual assaults took place — over months.

It’s fair to ask why the girls, whose ages have not been given, would continue to comply with requests for such encounters, one over two months, the other over four. I’d start with the fact that DeGraff occupied a position of trust as an employee of the school his parents founded to emphasize LDS principles in education.

It appears the son didn’t buy into his parents’ philosophy. At age 27, he likely had a bagful of wiles with which to ply the innocent. He’s already tried to cut a plea deal with prosecutors based on certain admissions, police say. That doesn’t fly. What would be appropriate here is prosecution to the full extent of the law. You wreck a life, your life gets wrecked — by justice.

Along with sympathy for the victims, you’ve got to feel for DeGraff’s parents. And yet Liahona spokeswoman Ganel-Lyn Condi intimated that school policies to protect students had not been followed. Now they will be, of course. But why is the ambulance so often found at the bottom of the cliff in cases like this? Anyone who works with youth take note.