Howard L. Brooks
Claims to fame: Former legislative aid to California Republican Assemblyman Phil Wyman (R-Tehachapi); former longtime executive director, Antelope Valley Board of Trade; convicted child molester
Moral apex: Pled no contest to charges of sexually molesting a 12-year-old boy who lived with the Brooks family for about eight months in 2000. Brooks was nearly 60 at the time.
Originally charged with: Five felony counts: committing a lewd act on a child, continuous sexual abuse of a child, oral copulation with a child under 14, providing lewd material to a minor, and possession of child pornography.
Sentence: Three years in the pen. If he’d gone to trial, he could have received up to 17 years.
How they caught him: Brooks had sent a letter to an inmate at the state prison in Sacramento, in which he discussed sexual activity with young boys; the letter was forwarded to law enforcement authorities.
Where he is now: Bakersfield.
Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Brooks:
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.— Deuteronomy 31:29
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