A 78-year-old mental health therapist was convicted today for the second time on a charge that he drove to the Tampa area to sexually and physically abuse two boys. ...more

March 27, 2009

A federal judge has granted a new trial for a 78-year-old mental health therapist who faced up to life in prison on a charge that he drove to the Tampa area to sexually and physically abuse two boys he thought would be made available by their father. ...more

February 6, 2009

A 78-year-old mental health therapist who faces up to life in prison is asking for a new trial on a federal charge that he drove to the Tampa area to sexually and physically abuse two boys he thought would be made available by their father. ...more

January 9, 2009

If it were not for The Tampa Tribune, I wouldn't be here. ...more

December 19, 2008

TAMPA A 78-year-old mental health therapist faces up to life in prison after being convicted this afternoon of a federal charge that he drove to the Tampa area to sexually and physically abuse two boys he thought would be made available by their father. After the verdict was read, Charles Friedlander was overcome with emotion, according to his attorney, George Tragos. He was led away to jail in a wheelchair. ...more

December 16, 2008

Charles Friedlander is "a 78-year-old lonely man whose only social life is on the Internet," and not a pedophile who attempted to sexually and physically abuse two boys, Friedlander's lawyer told a jury today. ...more

December 15, 2008

Fort Myers mental health counselor Thomas Jackson Friedlander was described today as being either a sadistic pedophile or a lonely 78-year-old homosexual who was arrested for describing his corporal punishment fantasies. ...more

December 8, 2008

A judge today barred attorneys for Charles Friedlander from presenting expert testimony that Friedlander is not a pedophile or a sexual sadist. ...more

November 17, 2008

Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages. ...more

November 12, 2008

again. The Internal Revenue Service is investigating the St. Petersburg-based evangelist for possible violations of his nonprofit tax exemption. ...more

June 28, 2008