How Could You? Hall of Shame-William Brenner

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 Greenwood, Indiana, foster parent William Brenner,49 ” is accused of molesting the boy more than once [in December 2014] and on into January 2015, according to documents filed in a Johnson County court. He faces four counts of felony child molesting and one count of felony dissemination of matter harmful to minors.

The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office started investigating Brenner in June, after it received an abuse report from the Indiana Department of Child Services, court documents said. The [6-year-old] boy asked DCS caseworkers: “Why was Mr. Williams so gross?” (The boy sometimes referred to Brenner as “Mr. Williams.”)

In interviews with the boy, investigators said, they learned that Brenner would take the boy into his room and lie with him naked on the bed. He would make the boy touch him and take nude photos of Brenner, documents said. The boy told investigators that Brenner performed sex acts on him and masturbated in front of him, documents said.

He also would go to pornographic websites and show the boy videos of people having sex, the documents stated.

Brenner, when questioned by investigators, admitted masturbating in front of the boy, as well as performing oral sex on him, the documents said. He told police that the incidents took place at night “98 percent of the time.”

“These allegations are unrelated to Mr. Brenner’s work as a local Kindred Hospital chief financial officer in the Indianapolis area,” said Susan Moss, a spokeswoman for Kindred Healthcare. “Mr. Brenner has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings.”

Foster parent accused of child molestation [Indianapolis Star 07/08/16 by Michael Anthony Adams and Vic Ryckaert]

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