If you follow the news like I do, then you have heard about the sickening sex abuse scandal in Manassas County, Virginia –a suburb of DC.   

Kevin Ricks, Sexual Predator

There has been an update.  Today, Kevin Ricks plead guilty to one sex abuse charge in a Prince William County courtroom.   This results in the first conviction in the case.  The former teacher will be sentenced in October 2010.  At sentencing, the judge can follow the sentencing guidelines, but he doesn’t have to.  Ricks could face a maximum of 10 years in prison.  He is also facing federal charges for transporting child pornography.

Ricks, 50, acknowledged that he was guilty of performing sex acts on a 16-year-old boy who had been a student of his at Osbourn High School.  The acts occurred during winter break in a basement room he was renting from the boy’s father.  A Manassas detective testified that Ricks wrote in his journal that he got the boy drunk before the first incident and that the second incident came just days later.

Ricks was a husband and a father.  It seems that Ricks was staying with the child’s father while he was going through a divorce.  I bet you the wife found out about him being gay and a pedophile.  She probably found out that he was a pedophile, filed for divorce and kicked him out.  This is so sad and all too common. 

Read more about this sexual predator and his case by clicking on the link below.

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/07/manassas-teacher-accused-being-sexual-predator