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Former RMA director facing Wyoming sex charges |
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March 29, 2017 |
Former Rocky Mountain Academy director Scott
Addison, 48, whose tenure there lasted just
three months, was arrested in Laramie, Wyoming,
February 22 and officially charged March 1 with
25 felony counts after multiple women accused
him of sexual assault and attempted blackmail.
Addison, a certified addictions counselor who
led RMA from September 2004 until his mutually
agreed upon separation from the private school
in Naples for undisclosed "issues and
complications," has pled not guilty to charges
including first degree sexual assault,
blackmail, attempted blackmail, felonious
assault and 20 counts of sexual exploitation of
a child.
He remains in custody in the Albany County
Detention Center on $50,000 cash bond. If
convicted on all counts, he could face life in
prison.
According to the Laramie Boomerang, Addison was
working as a therapist in Laramie with the firm
Pendley & Associates. An investigation was
launched against him in October, 2016, after a
woman told Laramie police that she met Addison
at his home in September, where, she said, she
was beaten, tied up, sexually assaulted and
photographed nude.
Addison threatened to send the photographs to
others if she told anyone, the woman told
investigators.
During a subsequent warrant search of his home,
physical evidence was seized that police say
corroborates the alleged victim's report, and
electronics also taken were found to contain
large numbers of sexually explicit images of
Addison and several women, including the woman
who made the initial report.
Police detectives made contact with a number of
the women in those images, and four, all of whom
knew him by different names, came forward and
lodged official complaints. One of the women was
17 at the time she was allegedly assaulted.
Addison's resignation from Rocky Mountain
Academy was announced in late November, 2004,
and on December 28, he was charged in Boundary
County with DUI, felony injury to a child and
failure to give immediate notice of an accident.
On April 25, 2005, he was convicted of
inattentive driving and an amended misdemeanor
charge of injury to a child, the additional
charges dismissed. He was sentenced to 30 days
in jail, suspended, fined $363.50 and given one
year unsupervised probation.
After leaving RMA, Addison eventually moved to
Boise, working as a grant officer for the Idaho
Council on Domestic Violence and Victim's
Assistance from February to July, 2007 before
being fired after accusing a female supervisor
of discrimination after he allegedly broke off a
sexual affair with her.
A subsequent lawsuit was settled out of court in
2009, with him receiving $28,000.
In 2010, he went to work for the Ada County drug
and veterans' courts until allegations were
raised of sexual impropriety in 2014 and he was
fired, though no criminal charges were brought.
His 2015 lawsuit against Ada County, which
includes allegations that he was sexually
discriminated against because he is a man and
that his employer failed to accommodate his
bipolar disorder, is pending. |
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