By Clint Confehr
Shelbyville Times-Gazette
Four boys testified in Bedford County Sessions Court on Monday about being raped and seeing their friends raped by a disgraced paramedic. The case was sent to the grand jury.
Edward Raven Odom, 29, appeared in an orange county jail uniform before Judge Charles Rich who dismissed 44 of the 199 charges partly because there was no proof about when the alleged crimes happened before 2004.
While walking from the witness stand, one boy profanely described how “embarrassing” it was to have to testify about what happened. A younger boy, after testifying, went to a woman on the first row of benches in the courtroom and buried his face in her lap. Subsequently, he grabbed his school book bag and left the courtroom. ...
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