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A man of Tennessee accused in lawsuits of sexually assaulting and sexually assaulting dozens of women on Monday received a 95 -year imprisonment for other types of offenses: the production of images of abuse of children and an escape from ‘ A prisoner carriage.
Judge J. Ronnie Greer in Greeneville called Sean Williams an unchanged ‘organized, methodical sexual predator of women and children’, according to the Johnson City Press. Prosecutors said Williams, who was already in prison, got razor in his shoes on his way to court.
Williams, 53, congratulated a prosecutor on a ‘dramatic performance’ at the Federal Court’s hearing on Monday and implied that the images were falsified or doctored. Williams laughed, shook his head and said when the judge said the only thing he could imagine would be a serial killer.
Earlier this month, Johnson City officials voted to pay $ 28 million to a lawsuit filed by women under the “Jane Doe” shelter against the city and individual police officers who claimed that police were deliberately investigating the allegations on the allegations to pay from sexual assault against Williams from 2018 to 2021.
Williams has not yet been criminally charged with the allegations of the women in the lawsuits.
The city and officers have long denied corruption allegations, including a claim in the women’s lawsuit that Williams paid the police to impede investigations into the allegations of sexual assault against him. The settlement contains extensively to 400 women, including minors, who submitted any report of sexual abuse or human trafficking to Johnson City police from 2018 to December 2022 due to accusations of gender discrimination. The settlement still requires approval from the court.
A police officer of campus at West Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, fell asleep in his car in 2023 while fled a federal charge of criminal ammunition in April 2021.
His vehicle contains cocaine, methamphetamine, about $ 100,000 and digital storage devices with more than 5,000 images of children’s sexual abuse. Williams was also in possession of photos and videos that sexually assaulted him at least 52 women in his Johnson City apartment while in a ‘clear unconscious’, police wrote.
At least half a dozen names on folders containing videos are in line with first names on a list called ‘rape’ that Johnson City officers previously found in his apartment, a police officer states.
After being charged in connection with the images of children’s sexual abuse, in October 2023 Williams escaped from a vehicle that took him from a Kentucky relief center to a Tennessee hearing. The authorities caught him in Florida more than a month later.
He was convicted of Escape in July and in November of the images of a 9-month-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a 7-year-old girl in November of child sexual abuse. Prosecutors said Williams also raped the mothers of the children while they were unconscious and that there were also images and videos of it. Williams took the sexually explicit photos of one child in 2008 and the other two at separate occasions in 2020, all in his apartment, prosecutors said.
In the Tennessee State Court, Williams faces additional charges of minors. In a Federal Court in North Carolina, he is charged with possession of sexual abuse of children and illegal drugs.
Two other federal lawsuits against Johnson City and individual police officers are still pending on the investigation into sexual assault reports against Williams.
