Shortly Non-English-speaking family was rescued by the Juab County Search and Rescue from David Leavitt’s cabin in October 2022, David Leavitt and his wife fled to Scotland and purchased the castle, which they have been talking about for the last twenty years.
IRA Investigates Leavitt’s Federal Connection
Over the past month, Investigations in Ritual Abuse received information from three separate sources that the Department of Homeland Security instructed the Utah County Sheriff’s Office to back off of their original target in the Hamblin case, none other than Utah County Attorney David Okerlund Leavitt. Despite Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith’s public assertions to the contrary, David Leavitt was the original and primary target of the current UCSO investigation into allegations of ritual abuse. Leavitt’s June 2022 press conference was allegedly spurred by his receipt of a 150 plus page victims’ statement from a reporter who asked him about the allegations within that statement.
The reality is that David Leavitt’s name appears in the police reports from the Provo Police Department’s 2012 to 2014 investigation of David Lee Hamblin as a person of interest. The original GRAMA release by the Provo Police is incomplete, in that it omits the sections of police reports referring to David Leavitt’s role in the allegations against Hamblin and the alleged LDS Church of Satan. Additionally, the Victims Statements clearly have omissions, as subject matter is missing between paragraphs. IRA has filed GRAMA requests with various law enforcement agencies to recover the omitted sections.
The sources IRA has spoken to are in agreement that David Leavitt was the target of the investigation, and that David Hamblin’s arrest was a strategic effort on the part of the UCSO and the prosecutors to potentially flip Hamblin on Leavitt. However, the Department of Homeland Security interfered and ordered UCSO to back off of David Leavitt as a target of the criminal investigation, and two of the sources reference David Leavitt’s work in Ukraine as the stated reason for DHS’s interference.
David Leavitt and his wife Chelom Eastwood Leavitt proceeded to purchase Knockderry Castle in Scotland for $1.4 million. The couple left the United States to remodel the castle, and they now have a blog entitled whatthehelldidwedo.com documenting their renovations of Knockderry.
WARNING: Stealing a Someone’s Castle brings BAD KARMA
Knockderry Castle has its own sordid history, beginning with a disputed £230 bill its former owner, Marian Van Overwaele, claimed she had already paid. Over 22 years, Van Overwaele’s battle over that bill grew to a mammoth £1.4m in legal fees and outlays incurred by sequestration trustees, who had been put on the property when Van Overwaele’s £230 bill for property repairs had grown to £1,500, which triggered sequestration, or bankruptcy, under Scottish law. Her creditor, the property factor who had performed the repairs, put Van Overwaele and Knockderry into sequestration.
After 22 years’ worth of legal wrangling, the trustees involved in the dispute over the £1,500 sequestration amount incurred a staggering £800,000 in legal bills out of the £1.4m in legal fees and outlays they reported to the courts. Van Overwaele’s debts plus interest constituted a mere £52,000. Throughout the battle, Van Overwaele insisted she had paid the original £230 bill. She also claimed that there had been an ongoing conspiracy to take her property.
Knockderry Castle was said to be “unsuitable for secured lending in its current condition” due to the extensive repairs the property needed. David and Chelom Leavitt purchased it regardless, left the United States, and now reside in Scotland. They were able to depart the U.S. in part due to the direct intervention of Homeland Security in the UCSO’s investigation into allegations of ritual sexual abuse.
David Lee Hamblin is represented by Michael Petro and Leah Ashton, and Petro has ties to David Leavitt’s nonprofit, having served as a visiting criminal and constitutional law professor in 2006 and 2007 for the Leavitt Institute for International Development in Kiev, Ukraine. The question of who paid for David Hamblin’s legal fees is as yet unanswered, because Hamblin claimed that he could not afford to retain Leah Ashton and Michael Petro during his last hearing in Manti, while simultaneously indicating that he could pay for a private company to monitor his GPS and geofencing if he were to be granted bail.
In light of these developments, David Leavitt’s press conference put the UCSO on the defensive. Someone made Leavitt aware of the current investigation, and David Leavitt knew exactly how to color the investigation by referencing the 2012 to 2014 investigation against David Lee Hamblin. The present investigation does not involve Hamblin’s children, who have abstained from commenting to IRA and others who have reached out. The current allegations against David Hamblin originated from two entirely new victims. The male victim was a patient in Hamblin’s therapy practice. The female victim was the child of a family named in the 2012 to 2014 case as being members of the LDS Church of Satan.
By connecting the current case to the prior case against David Hamblin, David Leavitt managed to paint the UCSO’s investigation as part of the Satanic Panic. Leavitt also openly campaigned for Sheriff Mike Smith to be fired, an effort that was ultimately unsuccessful. David Hamblin’s attorneys are currently seeking records related to his daughters’ allegations against him, even though his daughters are not in any way affiliated with the present two cases. The reason is obvious: Leah Ashton and Michael Petro hope to muddy the allegations of the current two victims by connection those allegations to the 2012 to 2014 case against David Hamblin, which centered on his daughters’ accusations against him.
David Leavitt’s prior involvement with illegal adoptions related to James Webb, the disgraced owner of the Adoption of Center of Utah. According to the sources IRA spoke with, James Webb and David Leavitt had one other common connection: they both visited Ukraine. Ukraine has a long history of sex trafficking and adoption fraud. Leavitt used his purported relationships with Ukrainian government officials and businessmen to compel the chief of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana to fast track his illegal adoption of an Indian girl from the tribe.
A video interview of Leavitt discussing the adoption of the Indian girl was entered into evidence in a Homeland Security investigation into human trafficking. Leavitt also raised eyebrows when he took a 2022 trip to Ukraine for the purposes of finding 500 families an anonymous donor could financially support.
IRA will continue to investigate David Leavitt’s alleged involvement in human trafficking, sexual abuse, and his connections to the Department of Homeland Security. If you have any tips or information, please contact us @Goel1830 on Telegram. https://1830goel.substack.com/p/why-did-homeland-security-protect
Where there is smoke, there is fire!
Tom Fairbanks
Intelligence Support Activity (ISA)
Community Health Advocate
Community Support Foundation
communitysupportfoundation@protonmail.com
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