Steve Al Archuleta booking photo from the Cache County Jail.
LOGAN — A 63-year-old former Logan man has pleaded guilty to abusing several boys (physically and sexually) more than 25 years ago. Steven Al Archuleta accepted a plea deal that will send him to prison next month.
Archuleta appeared Wednesday morning in 1st District Court. He pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony.
In 2020, Logan City Police officers received a delayed report involving the sexual abuse of a child. The incidents occurred between 1991 and 1997.
A detective interviewed the victim on May 26, 2020. The man disclosed how he began being physically and sexually abused when he was around the age of 9 or 10. Archuleta would rape him and then threaten him with violence if he told anybody. The abuse continued until he was approximately 13 or 14-years-old.
On March 15, 2021 the detective interviewed a second victim. The man also reported similar abuse occurring when he was between 6 and 7-years-old.
Both victims described how Archuleta and Carol A. Ricker, a 60-year-old woman, would engage in sexual acts, while making them interact with them.
During Wednesday’s hearing, Cache County Deputy Attorney Andrew Crane said Archuleta took indecent liberties with the victims for his own sexual gratification.
Defense attorney Michael McGinnis explained how prosecutors agreed to drop five remaining charges in exchange for Archuleta’s guilty plea. They will also ask the court for a sentence of three-years-to-life in prison.
Judge Brian Cannell said he would accept the plea deal and sentencing request. He scheduled a sentencing hearing for March 29.
Archuleta remains in the Cache County Jail since being arrested in May 2021 after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Ricker was convicted of abusing the boys in 2009 and was sentenced to prison. She was convicted with similar new offenses in 2022. Records show she is currently on parole.
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