‘Big Brother Of Year’ Sentenced To Prison For Molesting Boy
MEDINA, Ohio — A man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for raping and molesting a boy whom he mentored in the Big Brothers program.
Richard Mansfield, 60 — once named Big Brother of the Year for Big Brothers and Sisters of Summit and Medina counties — took the boy back to his home, showed him pornography and sexually molested him for years, prosecutors said.
The boy, now 14, was 7 when he joined Big Brothers Big Sisters International, a volunteer program that matches children with mentors. His mother said she hoped the program would help the boy, whose father had moved out of state, his mother said.
Addressing Mansfield on Monday in Medina County Common Pleas Court, the woman told him she had given her son to him in hopes Mansfield would teach him to be a man. Instead, she said, the boy became an angry youth. “I hope you rot in hell,” she said, sobbing. Read More