C. P. v. Utah Office of Crime Victims' Reparations

OPINION

BILLINGS, Judge.

C.P. appeals the denial of her request for crime victim reparation funds to pay for her sexually abused daughter’s mental health counseling. We reverse and remand.

FACTS

C.P.’s daughter was sexually abused by her uncle. C.P. applied for reparation funds .from the Utah Office of Crime Victims’ Reparations (Crime Victims’) in 1989. Grime Victims’ granted C.P.’s daughter an award for mental health counseling on June 23, 1989. On June 29,1991, C.P.’s daughter was admitted into a Benchmark Hospital (Benchmark) counseling program, a non-Medicaid provider. Crime Victims’ learned…