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A Pennsylvania district attorney is vowing to remain in office while he fights sexual assault charges. Bradford County District Attorney Chad Salsman says he is
A Pennsylvania district attorney vowed Friday to remain in office while he fights sexual assault charges, maintaining his innocence and complaining that he was handcuffed and “paraded in front of television cameras” by the state attorney general.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced at a Wednesday news conference at the Bradford County Courthouse in Towanda that Salsman faces multiple counts of sexual assault, indecent assault, intimidation of a witness or victim, obstruction of justice and prostitution.
The charges follow a lengthy investigation by Pennsylvania State Police and a state-empaneled grand jury, and stem from allegations made by five women who were clients of Salsman when he was an attorney in private practice.
Salsman did not enter a plea at his initial arraignment Wednesday in Magisterial District Court in Towanda, and was released after bail was set at $500,000 and he posted a 10% surety bond of $50,000.
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Bradford County District Attorney Chad Salsman is escorted into Magisterial District Court on Wednesday in Towanda.
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TOWANDA A Pennsylvania district attorney vowed Friday to remain in office while he fights sexual assault charges, maintaining his innocence and complaining that he was handcuffed and “paraded in front of television cameras” by the state attorney general.
Bradford County District Attorney Chad Salsman, who took office a year ago, was charged with sexually assaulting women who were his clients in criminal and child custody cases when he worked as a defense attorney.