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SALT LAKE CITY — An 83-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a young boy outside of a church nearly a decade ago was charged Friday.

John "Jack" Gordon, of Salt Lake City, was charged in 3rd District Court with sodomy on a child and aggravated kidnapping, both first-degree felonies. A $750,000 warrant was issued Friday for his arrest.

According to charging documents, sometime between 2008 and 2010, a boy, who was 7 or 8 at the time, was waiting outside a Salt Lake City church for his dad when Gordon approached him, according to charging documents.

He told the boy "he had some trinkets to show him if he would walk to the back of the building," the charges state. Once the two went behind the church, the boy was sexually assaulted, according to the charges.

The assault was reported to a police agency in Davis County in December, according to a search warrant affidavit. Gordon denied the assault when interviewed by police.

Court documents do not indicate why the allegations were being brought up 10 years after the alleged incident or what other evidence police may have collected.

According to state court records, this is the first time Gordon has been charged with a crime in Utah.