Legal Opinion
United States v. Walter Roberts
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 3, 2014No. 13-2222PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
In February 2012, an adult man notified Texarkana, Arkansas, police that Walter Richard Roberts, a long-time youth baseball coach, had sexually abused the man on more than 100 occasions between 1986 and 1992, when the victim was between 9 and 14 years old. An investigation revealed that Roberts had abused many other boys. On one occasion in 1988 or 1989, Roberts sexually abused one boy on a fishing trip that crossed the Arkansas border into Texas. As that offense was within the applicable federal statute of limitations, Roberts was charged with and pleaded guilty to one…
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