SALT LAKE CITY (Court TV) — A judge ruled Monday that a man accused of torturing his children — nearly killing one — can have contact with the victims.
Micah Smith appears in court on Sept. 28, 2026. (Court TV)
Micah Smith, 32, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of child torture and three counts of child abuse after an incident in which he took his three children out on a trail on Oct. 12, 2025.
Deputies from the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office were alerted that a group of hikers — identified as Smith and his children, ages 8, 4 and 2 — was overdue. A search team went out and found the group on the trail, but noted that Smith “was behaving oddly and did not appear to be concerned about the children. Smith also told [rescuers] that one of his children was dead,” prosecutors wrote in Smith’s indictment…