How Could You? Hall of Shame-Claude Edward Foulk Jr UPDATED

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Long Beach, California, jury selection will begin in the case of Claude Edward Foulk Jr, who formerly headed the state’s largest mental facility. He has been charged with “35 felony counts of sex abuse that authorities say he inflicted on his adopted son for more than a decade”

http://tinyurl.com/6krxwwj
[Press Telegram Long Beach, CA 1/21/11 by Tracy Manzer]

Update: The trial began in which “[t]he 27-year-old man, who wept on the stand, said Claude Foulk began abusing him at age 9, when he was Foulk’s foster child, and continued for more than a decade until he fled at 21. ”

Authorities contend 13 men, including another one of Foulk’s four foster sons, came forward to claim Foulk molested them as children as far back as 1965. Only one of the cases, however, could be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations.”

“Foulk will continue to testify on Monday, and attorneys could wrap up the trial with closing arguments later that day”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/28/AR2011012804514.html
[The Washington Post 1/28/11 by Amy Taxin]

Update 2: Convicted of 31 counts.

“Claude Foulk, 63, faces between 93 and 248 years in prison on the convictions. He returns to court on Feb. 23 for sentencing.”

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_17286353?nclick_check=1
[Contra Costa Times 2/3/11 by Greg Mellen]

Update 3: Foulk was sentence on Wednesday February 23 to 248 years for “20 counts of forcible oral copulation, nine counts of sodomy and two counts of lewd acts for abuse between 1992 and 2001. He was acquitted of two counts each of sodomy and oral copulation for charged acts that occurred after the victim was 18.”

“Foulk used an “adoption book” provided by the county’s foster care system to select the victim when he was eight and then molested him until he ran away from home at 21, according to trial testimony.”

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[Associated Press 2/23/11 by Gillian Flaccus]

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