August 15, 2013
(Anderson, SC). Fifty-eight year old Robert H. Alverson, Jr. pled guilty today in Anderson General Sessions Court to two counts of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor. The Honorable Edward Miller sentenced Alverson to 3 years suspended on 1 year HIP (home incarceration program) with 4 years probation & no contact with either victim.
The State agreed to recommend that the defendant plead guilty to 2 counts of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor (1 count for each of the victims) after reviewing all the available evidence after 14 – 29 years have passed since the incidents took place.
The defendant met both victims through The ACT Theatre, one between 1984 and 1985 and the other between 1997 and 1999. The victims disclosed that the defendant forced them to engage in oral and anal intercourse at various locations in Anderson County. Law enforcement’s investigation of each case was unable to produce any physical evidence after all these years and no witnesses have come forward to testify that they observed the abuse.
“The evidence we have in this case makes proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial highly unlikely,” said Solicitor Chrissy Adams. “Unfortunately, after all of these years no physical evidence exists that can be presented at trial. The evidence also shows that, as adults, each of the victims chose to share an apartment with the defendant in New York for some period of time. Our office must rely on the facts that would be admissible in court and based on those facts and the history of consensual relationships as adults with both victims, we are confident that our decision in regards to this guilty plea is the best and only resolution to this case.”