Accused child sex abuser faces more charges

NORRISTOWN >> A Bridgeport man accused of physically and sexually abusing five children faces new allegations he reached out to some of the victims from behind jailhouse walls to try to convince them to recant their accusations.

Between June and September, Todd Anthony Wilson allegedly used other inmates’ accounts at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility to make “hundreds of phone calls” to the mother of several of the child victims and “during some of those calls again asked to speak with, and did in fact speak with the minor victims in this case,” county prosecutors alleged in court papers seeking to revoke Wilson’s bail in the sex assault case.

“During this conversation, the defendant attempted to convince the 12-year-old victim to recant her allegations,” county prosecutors Brianna L. Ringwood and Bridget C. Gallagher wrote in court documents.

Prosecutors alleged Wilson, 33, of the 200 block of East Fourth Street, made the phone calls despite the fact a protection from abuse order was in effect since June 12 prohibiting him from having any contact with the victims.

Prosecutors have asked a judge to revoke Wilson’s $1 million bail, arguing “no combination of conditions will assure the safety” of the victims or the community in the event he is released from jail where he has been held since his May 1 arrest.

Ringwood has also asked a judge to prohibit Wilson from having any unsupervised phone conversations while he is being held in the jail.

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Todd Anthony Wilson, 32, of East Fourth Street in Bridgeport