SALT LAKE CITY — A Bountiful father has been charged with custodial interference after he reportedly took his 5-year-old from the child’s mother, the custodial parent.

Benjamin Despain is accused of taking his son last Tuesday and telling the boy’s mother that he didn’t want his son to have a surgery that was scheduled for later that week.

The boy was reunited with his mother over the weekend. Despain was taken into custody.

The boy’s mother told KSL TV she hadn’t seen her son since Tuesday, Dec. 2. The woman’s ex-husband, Benjamin Despain, picked up their son on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. for a scheduled visitation at her Bountiful home. The mother has sole physical and legal custody of their son, but has a weekly 3-hour visitation arrangement.

The boy’s mother said when she went to pick th

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