It’s amazing how quickly your world can come tumbling down on you. For Daniel Taylor, it happened at the end of May in 2013. One day he was going about his business as the founder of a youth home for troubled teens, trying to help them out and be a positive influence on them, the next day he’s being hauled to jail by police, not even charged initially, but arrested on the allegations that he raped and sexually abused girls in the home.
It was devastating. And nothing could be further from the truth.
Here’s what the local media had to say about it, as written up by the Salt Lake Tribune:
“Daniel Taylor, 42, was the director of Integrity House until police arrested him on Friday. He was booked into Iron County jail on suspicion of three counts of first-degree-felony rape, three counts of first-degree-felony sexual abuse of a child, and one count each of misdemeanor assault and abuse, according to jail records.”
That was published on July 1, 2013. And Mr. Taylor’s life has never been the same since, even though eventually the charges filed against him were dismissed. What will follow in future posts is his side of the story. Because the true story of what happened in relation to his arrest, detention, charging, trial and subsequent dismissal has never been told in full.