PORTLAND (ME)
Portland Press Herald
May 20, 2019
By Eric Russell
The Salvation Army says it terminated the officership after Gary Crowell was accused of abusing a teenage girl who lived with him and his wife in New York, but the alleged victim says the organization failed to tell the police.
A Saco man and former high-ranking officer in the Salvation Army in New York has been accused of sexually assaulting a teenager who lived with him for several years in the 1990s.
Nicole Sprout, who lives on Long Island, N.Y., held a press conference last week in front of the Salvation Army headquarters in Manhattan to levy accusations against Gary Crowell.
According to coverage from two local television stations, Sprout said Crowell and his wife, Carol Beth Crowell, took her into their home at age 11 after her mother, who lived with mental illness, could not care for her. Sprout said the abuse started shortly thereafter and progressed to sexual intercourse. It continued until she was 16, often two or three times a week.
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