Arizona Republic and the now-defunct
Phoenix Gazette.
At the time, Brown only had his story and the name of the man, remembers John Charland, who now works as Brown s attorney. Charland had handled a few sex abuse cases in the past and he found Brown immediately convincing, so they started looking for more information.
What they soon discovered was shocking. The man Brown says abused him, James Allen Robertson, had been convicted in 1980 of doing the same thing to other boys. A
Phoenix New Times article by Tom Kuhn from May 7, 1980, reported that he admitted to molesting 35 children under the age of 10. Ten boys he assaulted were other paperboys he supervised.