Former school counselor has new sentencing date | WCHS Network

Story by Brad McElhinny Prosecutors have called a former Kanawha County school counselor “a sexual predator of the most egregious variety” even as a scheduled sentencing was delayed. Federal prosecutors have asked for a 35-year sentence for former counselor Todd Roatsey in a memorandum filed in U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia. Todd Roatsey Todd Christopher Roatsey, 43, of Elkview has pleaded guilty to charges of attempted production of child pornography and attempted enticement of a minor. Prior to the guilty plea, Roatsey had faced 13 charges. Roatsey worked at Pinch Elementary School from August 2012 to last November. The sentencing had been scheduled to take place today. But during a telephone conference this week, a judge agreed more time is necessary to finalize restitutio9n for victims. So the new sentencing date is 1:30 p.m. Dec. 19. “Defendant has spent his entire adult life engaged in the sexual abuse and exploitation of children,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum. “Starting in his early twenties and continuing through his arrest in this case two decades later, defendant has engaged in nearly every type of sexual abuse that exists.” Prosecutors allege that he: Sexually abused at least two children between the ages of
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