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Sharyl Eisenstein

‘All these girls have terrible trauma’: Sex offender gets light sentence for 20-year-old crimes against minors

What does Woodstock Police Detective Dave Sharp remember most about investigating the crimes of child sex offender Richard F. Wachter? “The amount of human wreckage he left in his wake,” Sharp said. “All these girls have terrible trauma.” But having committed sex crimes against minors two decades ago means Wachter, 56, will serve less time […]

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