By Stephanie Schaerr
A preliminary hearing scheduled Tuesday for Kent Parkinson, who allegedly raped a Provo woman he met on a dating Web site for LDS singles, was postponed until Jan. 24, 2006 at the request of his attorney, according to Nancy Volmer, a public information officer for the Utah state courts.
Parkinson, 25, of Springville, was charged with 10 counts of rape, two counts of forcible sodomy and one count of aggravated kidnapping, according to court documents. All the charges surround a single incident that occurred Nov. 25, 2005 while he was out on bail on charges of two similar rapes.
According to a statement given by Lt. Doug Edwards of the Orem Department of Public Safety, the victim agreed to go out with Parkinson after chatting with him online. Police said he picked her up at her parents'' home at noon and drove her to a vacant house in Orem where he was living while doing cabinetry work on the home.
Parkinson allegedly held the victim at the house for ten hours and raped her repeatedly before driving her home. He was arrested Dec. 7, 2005 at his parents'' house and was held on $250,000 bail Dec. 8, 2005 in Utah County Jail.
Orem police said Parkinson used aliases on several LDS dating Web sites to contact victims, including 'Jeff Johnson' on singlesaints.com and 'Lance Bingham' on LDSmingle.com.