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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 15, 2023

The manhunt continues for Johnson City businessman Sean Williams, who is accused of sexually assaulting more than 50 unconscious women and two young children. While being transported to a federal court appearance in Greeneville on child rape charges, Williams escaped and remains a fugitive. His apprehension is now a top priority for federal law enforcement, WJHL reports. Willams’ arrest is at the center of multiple lawsuits, including one from a former federal prosecutor who claims police failed to investigate him for years and one from a group of alleged victims who says police knowingly failed to investigate multiple complaints and dissuaded women from pursuing charges. The city is also dealing with a “scathing audit” from an outside auditing firm that “exposed systemic failures in the way police investigated sexual assaults,” according to the Tennessean, which has released a lengthy report on the case.