EXETERâThe two-year -long case against a former local Boy Scout Chaplin came to an end last week in a Washington County Courtroom.Â
James Glawson, 76, of 101 Widow Sweets Rd, Exeter was sentenced last week after pleading nolo contendere to 11 counts of first-degree sexual assault.
According to the Rhode Island Attorney Generalâs Office the Rhode Island State Police first began its investigation of Glawson in January 2019 after they received reports from staff at a Rhode Island group home of inappropriate contact between Glawson and an developmentally disabled 18-year-old resident at the group home. The resident later told investigators that he was victimized by Glawson.
Former Boy Scouts Chaplain Is Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Sexual Abuse
James Glawson, 76, sexually assaulted six young men, including one who is developmentally disabled, Rhode Island authorities said.
James Glawson at a court hearing in 2019. “It makes me sick to think of what I have done,” Mr. Glawson said Thursday in a hearing in Superior Court in Rhode Island, according to The Providence Journal.Credit.Rhode Island Superior Court
Jan. 28, 2021
A former chaplain for the Boy Scouts in Rhode Island was sentenced on Thursday to 40 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges that he sexually assaulted six young men, the authorities said the latest reckoning for a national scouting movement beleaguered by sex-abuse claims.
Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced Thursday that an Exeter man was sentenced in Washington County Superior Court to serve 40 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after pleading to sexually assaulting six young men; five in the 1980’s during his time as a scout leader and the most recent victim in 2019.
James Glawson (age 76) pleaded nolo contendere to 11 counts of first-degree sexual assault.
At today’s hearing before Superior Court Justice Melanie Wilk Thunberg, the court sentenced Glawson to 60 years at the ACI, with 40 years to serve and the balance suspended with probation. Glawson was ordered by the court to register as a sex offender, complete sex offender counseling, and is subject to community supervision. The court also issued a no contact order between Glawson and his victim.
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