NORTH CAROLINA
The Mountaineer
May 2, 2018
Kyle Perrotti
Howard White is one step closer to facing child sex abuse allegations in Haywood County.
White, who is charged with several felonies related to the alleged 1985 sexual abuse of two children while he was rector of Waynesville’s Grace Church in the Mountains, is scheduled to be released from Boston’s South Bay Correctional Facility Thursday.
As of now, the 76-year-old has served 12 months of an 18-month sentence for five counts of assault and battery — to which he pleaded guilty — relating to the sexual abuse of a boy while he was employed by St. George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island in 1973.
Although White will be released from the custody of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, District Attorney Ashley Welch said that along with a governor’s warrant that has been signed and delivered to Massachusetts, he will be held in that state on a fugitive warrant until he can be transported to North Carolina.
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