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Date: 02-21-2022
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Judge: Not Available
Court: 11th Judicial District Circuit Court, Deschutes County, Oregon
Plaintiff's Attorney: Deschutes County District Attorney's Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Bend, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with 17 felony counts including first-degree rape and sexual abuse, for the molestation of three young children.
Those charges were
the result of a Bend Police Department investigation into Mr. Pugh’s sexual abuse of three children who
were five to twelve years old at the time of the crimes, from 2001 – 2008.
In 2019, one of the victims, who was then an adult, came forward to the Bend Police Department to
report the abuse she had been subjected to as a child by Rusty Pugh. Detectives were able to identify and
interview other victims of Mr. Pugh in the following months. He was subsequently arrested and has been
charged with having sexually abused six children.
Outcome: Defendant was found guilty.
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