Image by Eleventh Earl of Mar via FlickrLONG BEACH – The former executive director of a California state mental hospital was sentenced today to 248 years in state prison for sexually assaulting his adopted son for about a decade.
Long Beach Superior Court Judge James Pierce additionally ordered Claude Edward Foulk Jr., 63, to pay $6,200 in restitution.
Deputy District Attorney Danette Gomez said Foulk was convicted on Feb. 3 of 31 felony counts – two counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child, 20 counts of forcible oral copulation and nine counts of sodomy by use of force.
Although the criminal charges filed against Foulk a year ago named one victim – an adopted son who was sexually abused between the ages of 9 and 18 while living with the defendant in Long Beach and later in Walnut – Gomez called four other men to testify against the defendant. All said that they were sexually assaulted by Foulk starting as far back as 1966.
Additionally, seven other male victims alleged that Foulk sexually assaulted them when they were between the ages of nine and 12 between the years of 1967 and 1984. These victims fell outside of the statute of limitations, however, the prosecutor said.
Foulk was the executive director of the Napa State Hospital when he was charged on Feb. 24, 2010.
Gomez said Foulk was fired by the hospital. He also lost his nursing license, she said, explaining that the defendant was a nurse at Children’s Hospital in the 1970s, where he came in contact with one of his victims.
Long Beach Superior Court Judge James Pierce additionally ordered Claude Edward Foulk Jr., 63, to pay $6,200 in restitution.
Deputy District Attorney Danette Gomez said Foulk was convicted on Feb. 3 of 31 felony counts – two counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child, 20 counts of forcible oral copulation and nine counts of sodomy by use of force.
Although the criminal charges filed against Foulk a year ago named one victim – an adopted son who was sexually abused between the ages of 9 and 18 while living with the defendant in Long Beach and later in Walnut – Gomez called four other men to testify against the defendant. All said that they were sexually assaulted by Foulk starting as far back as 1966.
Additionally, seven other male victims alleged that Foulk sexually assaulted them when they were between the ages of nine and 12 between the years of 1967 and 1984. These victims fell outside of the statute of limitations, however, the prosecutor said.
Foulk was the executive director of the Napa State Hospital when he was charged on Feb. 24, 2010.
Gomez said Foulk was fired by the hospital. He also lost his nursing license, she said, explaining that the defendant was a nurse at Children’s Hospital in the 1970s, where he came in contact with one of his victims.
