Friday, June 14, 2013

Sexual Abuse at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club

"Arlington youth facility reveals sex abuse allegations" by Brock Parker |  Globe Correspondent,  February 08, 2013

The Arlington Boys & Girls Club said Thursday that it has discovered multiple allegations that a former and now deceased employee sexually abused children at the club between the 1970s and 1990s.

The allegations of sexual abuse are against William ­Sullivan of West Roxbury, who passed away more than a ­decade ago and who worked at the club from 1964 to 2002, accord­ing to information ­released by the club Thursday....

Because Sullivan is dead, ­Arlington Police Department Chief Fred Ryan said, if information the club provided to police is true, there may not be any prosecutable crimes in connection with the allegations....

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