EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Springfield man pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three boys, ages 9 to 12. He met at least two of them while working at the Jasper Mountain treatment facility for emotionally disturbed children.
The Register-Guard reports 27-year-old Joshua Thomas Friar will face at least six years in prison when he is sentenced later this month in Lane County Circuit Court.
He pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexual abuse and sodomy charges. In exchange for the guilty pleas, prosecutors dropped 22 other charges.
Friar was arrested in November after a boy said Friar had molested him. The boy and another victim had been placed in Friar’s home as foster children after he met them at Foster Mountain.
