BlueRidgeNow [North Carolina]
July 3, 2007
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20070703/NEWS/707030321/1042/NEWS/NEWS/Man_arrested_in_probe_of_child_sex_abuse
A Henderson County man has been arrested as part of a South Carolina investigation into sexual abuse at a children's home in Greenville County.
Officers with the Greenville County Sheriff's Sex Crimes Unit arrested Duain A. Whittemore, 60, of Jetter Mountain Road, on Thursday in Transylvania County.
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Whittemore, who previously worked at Tabernacle Baptist Children's home but was most recently associated with Anchor Baptist Church in Pisgah Forest, was charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor between 1976 and 1984 when he served as director of the children's home.
In April, two men who lived at the Tabernacle Baptist Home came forward saying a former counselor sexually abused them 20 years ago.
Gregory Lane Jones is the former counselor charged with committing those lewd acts. Perry Franklin Simms, the former director of the home, is charged with child neglect and failure to report abuse.
Whittemore has since been released on bond and has a hearing on the case scheduled for later this week.
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