How Could You? Hall of Shame-Darrell Girardeau UPDATED

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From Greenville, South Carolina, foster parent Darrell Girardeau. 66, “who has been a foster parent to “roughly 30 children” was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexually abusing a foster child multiple times, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office said.

On Feb. 20, the sheriff’s office began investigating Darrell Girardeau after learning of allegations that he had “inappropriate physical contact … with a child under the age of 16,” according to a news release.

The abuse occurred while the 66-year-old Iva resident was the girl’s foster parent, according to an arrest warrant.

Girardeau inappropriately touched “the child … on multiple occasions between July 29, 2015 and March 2, 2016,” the sheriff’s office said in the news release.

He was taken to the Greenville County Detention Center and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, jail records show. Girardeau remains behind bars after his bond was set at $30,000 on the combined charges, according to the detention center.

The sheriff’s office is asking anyone else who might have been a victim of abuse at Girardeau’s hands, including other foster children, to report the crimes.

Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 864-23-CRIME.”

Foster dad to 30 kids molested at least one of them — and maybe more, SC cops say

[The State 3/20/19 by Noah Feit]

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Update:“A former Greenville foster parent charged earlier this year with criminal sexual conduct with a minor is now accused of molesting a young boy, according to Lt. Ryan Flood with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.

In March, Darrell Girardeau, 66, was arrested on two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, warrants said.

The investigation started Feb. 20 when allegations came about of Girardeau having inappropriate physical contact with a girl while he was a foster parent, deputies said.

Investigators learned the incidents involved Girardeau inappropriately touching the child from July 29, 2015, to March 2, 2016, deputies said.

Girardeau is now facing another charge of criminal sexual conduct with a minor in a case involving a young boy, according to an arrest warrant.

Flood said the investigation revealed between January 2014 and August 2014, the 7-year-old child, who was in the care of Girardeau as a foster child, had been molested multiple times.

Girardeau has been in the Greenville County Detention Center since his arrest in March.

Deputies said Girardeau was an entrusted foster parent to roughly 30 children during his lifetime and asked any other victims who experienced similar incidents to call Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME or the investigator assigned to the case at 864-467-4702.”

Greenville foster parent molested another child in his care, deputies say

[WYFF4 6/10/19]