2:23pm | A Long Beach judge sentenced former state mental hospital director Claude Edward Foulk, 63, to 248 years in state prison for sexually assaulting his adopted son for about a decade while the two lived in Long Beach and Walnut. He was also ordered to pay $6,200 in restitution.
Earlier this month, Foulk was convicted of 31 felony counts of sexually assaulting a foster child. The details of his conviction are in the original story below.
Four other men also testified that they had been sexually assaulted by Foulk as far back as 1966. Seven additional men accused Foulk of sexual assault from 1967 to 1983 but they fell out of the statute of limitations.
9:19am February 4 | On Thursday, a Long Beach jury convicted the 63-year old former executive director of a California state hospital for sex offenders of 31 felony counts of sexually assaulting a foster child. Claude Edward Foulk committed acts against boys for decades in Long Beach and then Northern California.
Foulk was convicted of two two counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child, 20 counts of forcible oral copulation and nine counts of sodomy by use of force. Long Beach Superior Court Judge James B. Pierce presided over the trial and will sentence Foulk on February 23. He faces a maximum 248 years in prison.
The charges indicated that Foulk sexually abused one foster child who had lived with Foulk from age 9 to 18 while living with him in Long Beach and then Walnut, CA. However, prosecutors called four more men to the stand who testified that Foulk had sexually abused them as far back as 1966.
Foulk was arrested on February 24, 2010 when a former victim – now in his 40s – found that he was in charge of the Napa State Hospital, a facility for sex offenders. Foulk was fired, lost his nursing license, and has remained in custody on $3.5 million bail since the arrest.