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Wednesday, March 08, 2017
GoLocalProv News Team
Roy Bolden the Chair of the Providence GOP and closely tied to Rhode Island Republican leaders was arraigned on Wednesday by Providence Police on charges of first-degree and second-degree child molestation, and third-degree sexual assault. Bolden was ordered held without bail.
Bolden has deep ties to RI GOP chair Brandon Bell. At a leading GOP event in 2013 — the inaugural meeting of the Roosevelt Society, Bolden weighed in on GOP and family values.
According to an article in Ocean State Current, published in 2013:
A former football player at the University of Rhode Island, Bolden founded Legions of Christ Ministries in Providence, which has as one of its ministries People United for Change, applying the moral and religious principles of the group more broadly, to economics and politics.
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