PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former volunteer Catholic chaplain for the Boy Scouts in Rhode Island charged with sexually assaulting a teenager with disabilities has been ordered by a judge to hire a lawyer.
James Glawson was told in court Wednesday he doesn’t qualify for a public defender, and the 74-year-old Exeter man says he doesn’t know how to hire a private attorney.
The judge has given Glawson until Friday to hire an attorney.
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Glawson is charged with four counts of felony sexual assault involving an 18-year-old man with disabilities. He hasn’t entered a plea and is being held without bail.
Police say Glawson began working with the Boy Scouts in 1980, and served as an assistant Catholic chaplain at a Hopkinton summer camp from 2012 until 2018.
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