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As a coach of the San Bernadino, CA Little League team, Norman
Watson molested five players over a span of six years. Had the
league performed a background check on Watson, it would have
discovered that he was on probation for a molestation offense.
Watson was sentenced to 84 years in prison on 39 counts of lewd
acts with children.
In 1997, Daniel Patrick Donohue volunteered as a childcare aide
for disabled children at both Nova Southeastern University and
Virginia Shuman Young Elementary School. Had the schools performed
a national background check, they would have found that Donohue
had been paroled in 1989 from a California jail after serving five
years for numerous child sexual abuse convictions. In his capacity
as a volunteer child care worker, Donohue molested at least six
autistic children.
At the East Dallas YMCA between 1989 and 1991, David Wayne Jones,
20, a councelor in an after-school program, molested 41 children
between the ages 3 and 11 who were in his care. Jones confessed
after a three-month investigation and is serving 15 years. In
a civil suit brought by the family of two of Jones' victims, the
national YMCA was found negligent and responsible for 10% of the
actual damages.
In 1993 in Tiverton, RI, Michael Aballo, who was once named
Tiverton's Man Of the Year for his work with the community youth
organizations, was convicted of sexually molesting two boys he
worked with - one over a period of five years. Aballo, 43, is
serving seven years.
In 1993 Richard DeHuff, 30, a volunteer with the Big Brothers/Big
Sisters in King County, WA, pleaded guilty to raping an 11-year-old
boy who was in his care. He was sentenced to seven and a half
years.
Dennis Bedard, 44, of Harrison, ME, had been a Little League coach
for several years when he was convicted in 1993 of two counts
of gross sexual assault and eight counts of unlawful sexual conduct.
The offenses occurred over a six-month period and involved five
boys between the ages of 9 and 12.
On 2-3-2004, Marc Lee Lewis, age 43, of Bethany, OK pleaded no
contest in Oklahoma County District Court to 23 felony counts
involving the sexual abuse of four males who were teenagers at
the time of the offenses. Lewis was sentenced to a total of 360
years in prison following his plea on 6 counts of Forcible Oral
Sodomy, 4 counts of Rape in The First Degree, 1 count of Lewd
Or Indecent Proposal To A Child Under 16, 1 count of Attempted
Rape in The First Degree and 11 counts of Lewd Acts With A Child
Under 16. Lewis was an Oklahoma Department of Human Services foster
father.
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