A Deep Haven, Minnesota man with a link to Cook County’s North Shore was charged in January 2010 with sexually abusing a 15-yearold boy. William Allan Jacobs, 66, a former captain of the Minneapolis Park Police, owns a cabin on Cascade Beach Road in Lutsen. As Jacobs awaits his
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men have come forward with accusations.
According to Fourth Judicial District court documents, the boy referred to as “Child A” reported that Williams had been sexually abusing him since he was 12 years old, starting when he went on a camping trip with the defendant in the summer of 2007. The document graphically details numerous incidents of abuse and states, “The defendant also took Child A to his cabin up north on multiple occasions” where the sexual abuse escalated.
After the teenager documented his abuse, the police
monitored a telephone call from the boy to Jacobs, with the boy stating that he was afraid he had contracted a sexually transmitted disease “based on the sexual things they had done together.” According to the Hennepin County Sheriff ’s Office report, Jacobs never challenged “Child A’s” statement that they had engaged in sexual acts that could have given him an STD
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and in fact told the boy that he was “clean.”
Based on the written documentation and phone call, Hennepin County Sheriff ’s Office searched Jacob’s home and found child pornography. Thesheriff ’s officewas also concerned because Jacobs had spent much of his career in a position of authority around children.
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According to court documents,
he was a camp counselor at Camp Warren in Eveleth in the 1960s and 1970s. He taught at the Blake School in 1971-72 and at Breck’s Minneapolis campus from 1973 – 1976. He was also
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a hockey coach and a guitar instructor. He joined the Park Police in 1975 and rose to rank of captain, running the force from 1987 to 2001.
In March 2010, Hennepin County Attorney Michael O. Freeman told the Minneapolis
Star-Tribune
that several people had come forward since the first
media report to say that they
were abused by Jacobs. Freeman
week beg nning 5 2×2 & 2 4 ads said those cases were past the statute of limitations for prosecution, having occurred before 1984. However, Freeman asked others who may have been abused to come forward. The Hennepin County Sheriff ’s Officeasks anyone who wants to talk to authorities about possible abuse to call (763) 525-6216.
According to a May 7, 2010 court document, 17 other victims have come forward,
detailing incidents of abuse by Jacobs during stays at Camp Warren and on overnight trips at the Blake and Breck’s schools. Although many of the incidents (between 1962 and 1980) are beyond the time allowed in the statute of limitations, Hennepin County Attorney Freeman issued a “statement and notice of other offenses or prior acts the state intends to prove.”
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Freeman said the state introduced
the statements to establish the defendant’s “common scheme or plan, identity, and modus operandi.” Indeed, each incident recounted by the alleged victims is eerily similar.
Jacobs is free on $500,000
bond. His trial date has been
set in Fourth District Court for
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October 25, 2010
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