SALT LAKE CITY?A 73-year old grandfather and former Mormon bishop will go to prison, possibly until he dies, for molesting his four granddaughters.

James Denos on Friday asked 3rd District Judge Timothy Hanson for probation, rather than prison, citing a lifetime of good works as a junior high school teacher and a bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Denos, who abused his four granddaughters, now aged 7 through 13, both in Utah and in his home state of California, pleaded guilty in October to four counts of first-degree felony aggravated sexual abuse of a child.

The counts carry prison terms of 5 years to life, which Hanson ordered run consecutively.