Former RI Boy Scout Chaplain Indicted on Charges of Sexually Assaulting 5 Boy Scouts
Friday, December 06, 2019
A Washington County grand jury on Friday indicted former Boy Scout chaplain James Glawson of Exeter, Rhode Island with 16 counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of possession of child pornography.
The alleged acts occurred in the towns of Exeter, Richmond, and South Kingstown.
12 of the 16 counts of first-degree sexual assault allege that the defendant sexually assaulted, by force or coercion, five former members of the Boy Scouts on diverse dates between January 1, 1981, and January 1, 1987.
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The Rhode Island State Police Major Crimes Unit conducted the investigation.
The defendant is currently being held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) and is scheduled to be arraigned on December 9, 2019, in Washington County Superior Court.
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As GoLocal reported in February:
Former Boy Scouts Assistant Chaplain James Glawson was arrested by the Rhode Island State Police for allegedly sexually assaulting an 18-year-old disabled man.
Glawson is charged with three counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of second-degree sexual assault.
He was ordered held without bail during his arraignment on Friday.
The arrest stemmed from an investigation by members of the Rhode Island State Police Detective Division into a complaint recently filed on behalf of an 18-year-old disabled man who allegedly had been sexually assaulted.
As a result of the investigation, detectives learned that Glawson has been affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America since 1980.
From 2012 to 2018, he served as an assistant Catholic chaplain and Eucharistic minister with the Boy Scouts of America at the St. John Bosco Chapel at Yawgoog Scout Reservation, a summer camp in Hopkinton that is run by the Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Glawson also is affiliated with St. Bernard Church in North Kingstown and the Immaculate Conception Church in Westerly.
