Estimated read time: minutes. She agreed to meet Samuel Whitney Faber at a restaurant after initially making contact with him on the dating app Mutual, a dating platform catering to single men and women who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They had messaged each other several times over the course of a few days before actually meeting.
When they finally met at a West Valley restaurant, Kristy says they spent a long time talking about his church mission. He made that all up. We had a whole half-hour to minute conversation about his mission, and it never even happened," she said.
Last month, Faber, 43, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting and raping Kristy and sexually abusing two other women. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. But because of what he pleaded to, there will not be any minimum-mandatory prison sentences. Kristy expects he'll likely be paroled in a few years. To her, it's the latest blow in what has already been a long and difficult process.
And I don't blame the other women for not wanting to go through it. It's hard. To get to this point to where we are today has been two years," she said. But now, Kristy, and Misti, who was also a victim of Faber, are speaking out to try and prevent other women from becoming sexual assault victims.
They are also hoping to encourage any other women who may have already been victimized by Faber to come forward and report their cases to police. And my poor kids are already broken for the rest of their lives, and I can't fix that, which is the only reason I agreed to the stupid sentence that he got," Kristy told KSL. Kristy went out with Faber on March 6, By the time the night was over, she had been physically and sexually assaulted at his Sandy house and again as Faber was driving her back to her car.
