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Ex-Johnson City businessman at center of police misconduct allegations sentenced to 95 years • Tennessee Lookout

Johnson City serial rapist Sean Williams was sentenced to 95 years in federal prison on Monday for three counts of child pornography that involved victims at a young age of nine months.

The sentence, which includes a five-year sentence to escape federal custody, will result in the 53-year-old former businessman who has been involved in many sexual assaults on women and children staying behind bars for the rest of his life. We guarantee that.

Williams has been at the heart of alleged explosive misconduct by the Johnson City Police Department for over three years.

Earlier this month, Johnson City was a record $28 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by Williams victims and others who allegedly mishandled reports of sexual assault by Johnson City police. It has announced that it has agreed to pay.

Sean Williams (Photo: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)

Two other cases against the city and its police department related to Williams remain pending.

It was brought in July by a woman who claimed Williams pushed her through the window of a five-storey condo in Johnson City in an attempt to sexually assault.

Another lawsuit filed in 2022 by former US prosecutor Kateri Dahl, has allowed Johnson police to renew the contract as a police department contact when Dahl refuses to retreat, claiming that he had blocked Williams’ investigation. He claims that there was no.

Williams is also facing additional drug charges in North Carolina and has faced more than 20 charges, including sexual offences against children in Washington County, Tennessee.

Williams was arrested in April 2023 while sleeping in a car in North Carolina. The arrest officer discovered a large amount of illegal drugs in Williams’ vehicle, and later reviews of his electronics gave images of William sexually assaulting 67 women and children inside an apartment in Johnson City. I did. Office filed in federal court. All the victims seemed unconscious.

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The three women whose attacks were found in the images were the mothers of children who were sexually abused by Williams, court records show.

These children were also recorded by Williams, which led to the conviction of Williams’ child pornography production on Monday.

In making the sentence, US District Judge Ronnie Greer ruled that if Williams sentences the future sentences he received in North Carolina or Washington County, Tennessee would be offered consecutive sentences for 95 sentences. , court records stated.