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Scott D. Pierce: Prominent Latter-day Saint filmmaker confesses he’s a child molester in Investigation Discovery’s ‘I Went Undercover’

There’s nothing new about Sterling Van Wagenen in the TV episode, but it is a cautionary tale.

(Rick Egan | Salt Lake Tribune file photo) Filmmaker Sterling Van Wagenen, seen here making his initial court appearance on April 30, 2019, in American Fork, Utah, on charges of sexual abuse of a child — to which he pleaded guilty, and is currently serving a six-year prison sentence. The reality series "I Went Undercover" is featuring Van Wagenen's case, and his taped confession to molesting someone else, in an episode set to air Tuesday, May 31, 2022, on the Investigation Discovery channel.

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