A hearing for the former chief of the state's largest mental health facility who stands accused of sexually abusing his adoptive son for more than 10 years was postponed Wednesday.
Claude Edward Foulk Jr. will return to the Long Beach Superior Court Thursday, when a trial date could be set.
The 62-year-old defendant, who was raised in Long Beach and who allegedly abused his adopted son while living and working in Long Beach as a therapist, has denied all allegations.
Though the criminal case is based on one adopted son, now 27, who was identified by the court as Jonathan several other men testified in Foulk's preliminary hearing that Foulk abused them as well when they were his foster or adopted children, or friends of those children.
No counts were filed based on their claims because the statute of limitations had run out, prosecutors said.
Foulk was arrested earlier this year by Long Beach Police Department Sex Crime detectives at the Napa State Hospital, the state's largest mental health facility where Foulk served as the hospital's executive director and where he lived on hospital grounds. He was fired almost immediately upon his arrest and has remained in custody at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail in lieu of $3.5 million bail since his Feb. 24 arrest.
Claude Edward Foulk Jr. will return to the Long Beach Superior Court Thursday, when a trial date could be set.
The 62-year-old defendant, who was raised in Long Beach and who allegedly abused his adopted son while living and working in Long Beach as a therapist, has denied all allegations.
Though the criminal case is based on one adopted son, now 27, who was identified by the court as Jonathan several other men testified in Foulk's preliminary hearing that Foulk abused them as well when they were his foster or adopted children, or friends of those children.
No counts were filed based on their claims because the statute of limitations had run out, prosecutors said.
Foulk was arrested earlier this year by Long Beach Police Department Sex Crime detectives at the Napa State Hospital, the state's largest mental health facility where Foulk served as the hospital's executive director and where he lived on hospital grounds. He was fired almost immediately upon his arrest and has remained in custody at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail in lieu of $3.5 million bail since his Feb. 24 arrest.
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