Retired Roanoke College professor, minister faces new child sex abuse indictment

VIRGINIA
The Roanoke Times

By Duncan Adams | The Roanoke Times

Salem resident Guy Adam Ritter, 92, faces an additional indictment related to charges of child sexual abuse of boys that allegedly occurred decades ago in Botetourt County.

Ritter is a prominent alumnus of Roanoke College, a former professor there and an ordained Lutheran minister, according to a college biography of him.

A Botetourt County grand jury indicted Ritter Monday for crimes against nature, which was the relevant statute at the time of the alleged offense, reported to have occurred in the county in 1958.

A county grand jury indicted Ritter June 4 by on five counts of taking indecent liberties with a child. Those offenses allegedly occurred during the 1970s.

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