A former teacher in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Primary organization, which serves children under 12, has been charged with sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl — and West Jordan police are looking for more potential victims.

Sean Sund, 45, has been charged with five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child. According to West Jordan Sgt. J.C. Holt, police were notified by the Division of Child and Family Services that the victim had reported the sexual abuse.

WJ detectives arrested 45 yr old Sean Sund tonight on 5 cts of agg sex abuse of a child. Sund held a position of trust over victim as he was a primary teacher in their LDS branch. PIO will be avail in the morn for interviews at WJPD. Possibly more victims. Need to get word out. — West Jordan Police Dept. (@WJPD_PIO) June 15, 2018

“ The probable cause statement is specific. At the time the abuse occurred, he was a Primary teacher,” he said. “She disclosed some abuse that was not just a one-time thing. It was several times. In fact, all five counts that he is charged with are against the same victim.”

Sund’s defense attorney said his client denies all the charges. “ Sean is completely and absolutely innocent in this matter,” said Clayton Simms.

According to the probable cause statement, Sund “confessed to two occasions of abuse” — which Simms also denied. And, he added, while Sund was a Primary teacher, the 8-year-old girl was not in his class.

“ From our understanding, the alleged victim was never a member of that ward,” he said. The victim reported the abuse occurred during sleepovers at Sund’s residence.

“ He had more than just this one child at sleepover events,” Holt said. “And there were multiple sleepovers at his house. So we’re just encouraging anybody else who might have been affected by this to contact us.

“ We just know that, typically, with this type of stuff and given the information that we have, that there could be more victims out there.”

Simms took issue with that.

“ From our position, it’s a little disturbing that the West Jordan police are trying to create victims,” the defense attorney said. “That they’re out on a search and trying to create cases that don’t exist.”

Sund served an LDS mission to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia and attended an LDS branch designated for natives of the Marshalls. Simms suggested there’s a “lack of cultural understanding” about the sleepovers Sund hosted.

“ Something that’s acceptable in a Micronesian culture is that people are all sleeping in the same room,” he said. “Which actually, in this particular case, benefits [Sund], because there’s witnesses that would say, ‘Yeah, absolutely nothing happened.’”

Sund was arrested last week but posted bail — more then $100,000 in cash — and was released. He has since been charged and has once again been taken into custody.