MISSISSIPPI
GulfLive
By Warren Kulo | GulfLive.com
on August 21, 2014
GULFPORT, Mississippi — A 68-year-old teacher who resigned from St. Patrick High School Tuesday has been charged with transporting at least eight boys ages 13-14 to multiple states and engaging in sexual acts with them.
According to U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Acting FBI Special Agent In Charge Johnnie Sharp, William Richard Pryor was arrested by FBI agents Tuesday on the St. Patrick campus.
The complaint against Pryor alleges that he transported the eight teenage boys to various states from 1973 to 2005 to engage in sex acts.
Prior to working at St. Patrick, Pryor worked at St. John High School and Bayou View Middle School, both in Gulfport, although all of the victims were students at Bayou View.
In an affidavit accompanying the criminal complaint, FBI agent Matthew Campbell says Pryor confessed to molesting eight boys from 1973 to 2005. At least one incident in the 1990’s occurred in Gulfport, Pryor told investigators.
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