FAIRFIELD Lawrence High School has announced its class of 2022 top 10 students in alphabetical order. Gage Boudreau, the class salutatorian, is the son
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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.
After
, Robertson called
New Times to discuss the case.
Robertson said he did not remember Gregory Brown, the plaintiff in the case, but he doesn t contest Brown s description of the event. Even though I don’t remember his name I don’t dispute the possibility because I was in a different frame of mind, he said. “I don’t dispute that I did crimes similar.”
Robertson said he had no hard evidence that anyone besides his direct boss Bresee knew about their crimes, although he had his suspicions from the way members of management interacted with them. He said he thought the company had opened itself up to liability by not better regulating the interactions between the youths employed to deliver papers and the adults supervising them.