A woman named Julie read from an impact statement last month as a Jackson County judge and several observers listened. Julie’s husband and her counselor sat beside her. My truth is important, she told everyone in the virtual court hearing. It matters, and I am grateful to share it with you today. The mom, wife, health care worker and devoted follower of Jesus had finally conquered the memories of child molestation that gave her nightmares for nearly two decades. In the virtual hearing that morning, the teacher Julie met at Holden High School in 2003, Josh Hood, sat quietly near his attorney in the small Zoom frame on the computer screen. Josh Hood may be a successful football coach, a teacher that most students love, a good friend to his colleagues, Julie said, But he is also a child molester. Hood, 44, pleaded guilty during that June hearing to eight counts of sexual crimes including second-degree child molestation, second-degree statutory rape, and second-degree statut
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