WEST VALLEY CITY — A former Mormon bishop from this Salt Lake City suburb was jailed Tuesday on allegations he sexually abused a teenage boy over a three-year span.

David J. Gomez, 57, has not been formally charged in Salt Lake County, but likely faces numerous counts of sodomy, forcible sexual assault, aggravated sexual abuse and sodomy on a child, said West Valley City Police Capt. Craig Black.

Kent Morgan, a Salt Lake County deputy district attorney, said he expected felony first-degree sex abuse charges to be filed against Gomez on Tuesday. The Associated Press could not confirm whether charges were indeed filed.

The alleged abuse involves a boy whose family approached police about three weeks ago, saying he had been abused beginning when he was 14 years old and ending when he was 17. The abuse allegedly happened between 10 and 13 years ago, and included several incidences of fondling and other sexual activity.

Police said at least one other person may have been abused.

Gomez met the boy through church-related activities, police said.

Gomez is the director of Utah Correctional Industries, which employs about 700 inmates to make road signs and license plates for the state, said Corrections Department spokesman Jack Ford.

Ford said Gomez has been on unpaid administrative leave since Monday afternoon, when West Valley City police officers showed up at Corrections Department headquarters to arrest him.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page D5.

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