ALBANY, Ore. (AP) - Linn County deputies arrested a 78-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a developmentally delayed woman.
Sheriff Bruce Riley says Richard Conklin came to the sheriff’s office in Albany on Wednesday and told detectives about abuse that began several years ago.
Riley says Conklin and the 28-year-old woman attend the same church and he’s been a friend of her family.
Conklin was booked into jail on charges of sex abuse, sodomy and unlawful sexual penetration. He did not have an attorney as of late Thursday morning.
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