(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) David Hawkins has been declared factually innocent of the crime of sexually abusing his sons, September 4, 2019. In 2018, Jeremy and Nathan Hawkins, now in their 20's, admitted to making the story up and lying on the witness stand as children, in an effort to get their father's conviction overturned. Hawkins spent seven years locked up before his release in 2015.