18-year-old Lakewood man confesses to molesting more than 50 kids

[RhodeIslandOne]

5. WaPo story.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/12/04/a-teen-told-police-hes-molested-at-least-50-children-authorities-say/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.cf33070896a1

Inside the police station, Joseph Boston told investigators that, yes, he had lured two boys into his motel room and molested them — but there was much more to his story than that, according to police in Riverside, Calif.

Riverside police said that on Saturday the 18-year-old went on to detail how he had molested “upwards of 50 children” in cities across Southern California for nearly a decade. He’d been molesting children since he was 10, police said.

The open confession rattled investigators, who spent the weekend retracing Boston’s tracks over nearly half his life, looking for a trail of young victims, police said.

“This is going to affect not only the victims for a long time but also our detectives and officers involved in this — to hear someone just be very open about what they’ve done, and they’re only 18 themselves,” Officer Ryan Railsback, of the Riverside police, told Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC.