Posted on 12/29/2005 10:37:03 AM PST by SmithL
SAN JOSE - A longtime scoutmaster pleaded no contest to charges he molested three Boy Scouts while alone with them on camping trips.
Gregory Allen Wagner, 43, of Los Altos, appeared in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Wednesday and pleaded to nine felony charges of sex offenses against children. He faces 27 years in prison at his sentencing in March, said prosecutor Sam Liccardo.
Wagner was arrested in August after serving as scoutmaster for two decades with Troop 31 in the scouts' Pacific Skyline Council.
Prosecutors said the abuse started in the late 1980s and lasted several years, but it was not uncovered until this summer when one alleged victim, former scout David Grewal, came forward and alerted authorities.
Grewal, now a 29-year-old graduate student at Harvard University, claimed he was 12 when Wagner began abusing him, but he kept it secret until his fiancee convinced him that other scouts could be in danger.
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