UTAH, USA — Jared Leisek, a founding member of the nationally recognized search and recovery dive team Adventures With Purpose, was arrested last Thursday for two counts of child rape, according to jail records from Sanpete County, Utah.
According to court documents, Leisek had sexual intercourse with a 9-year-old girl in 1992. The document, which was filed on Nov. 3 in the 6th Judicial District Court for Sanpete County, says he was seven years older than her at the time. Utah does not have a statute of limitations for rape.
The documents accuse Leisek of having sex with the girl — allegedly one of his relatives — on two occasions. The announcement of charges in November led to the departure of several team members.
ABC10 reported on Adventures with Purpose in Aug. 2022 as the dive team that found missing teen Kiely Rodni’s body and car in the Prosser Creek Reservoir.
The group released a video days after the search ended describing how they found her.
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Rodni was last seen on Aug. 6 after a party with around 200-300 people at Prosser Family Campground in Truckee. Later that day, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office shared a post about her being missing.
Crews from multiple agencies then assisted Placer County in the search for Rodni over the following days.
Fifteen days later on Aug. 21, Adventures with Purpose said they found her car and a body in Prosser Creek Reservoir.
On Aug. 23, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the person found inside the vehicle was Rodni.
In October, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office officially ruled her cause of death as ‘accidental,’ and said nothing suggests foul play.
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