PENNSYLVANIA
The Patriot-News
By IVEY DEJESUS, The Patriot-News
Reports that a member of a church community has been charged with sexually molesting boys who were under his charge raise troubling scenarios for child sexual abuse experts.
Authorities allege that William Jackson, 57, a former music teacher at Bible Baptist Church in Shiremanstown, began molesting boys in his music class two years ago, court documents state.
Sean McCormack, chief deputy district attorney and head of the child-abuse unit in Dauphin County, said child predators usually get away with their crimes for a longer period of time than law enforcement initially suspects.
“It doesn’t surprise me when we begin investigating a case to find out that somebody has abused someone else in the past,” he said. “The statistics show that when someone gets caught, they’ve usually had X number of other victims prior to getting caught.”
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