SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - More than 30 years ago, a little boy was repeatedly molested here in South Bend.
Now, his abuser has been sent to prison.
WNDU 16 News Now had a camera in the courtroom for the sentencing hearing.
“You do not even classify as a human. You are insignificant, a rapist, a child molester. You are nothing.”
Powerful words delivered straight to the face of his abuser.
43-year-old Brandon Rogers never thought he would see this day in court. It’s a day 32 years in the making.
“Out of respect for the court, I will watch my mouth, but I refuse to bite my tongue,” Rogers said.
Rogers grew up in Florida, but came to South Bend during the summers as a child after his mother divorced Alan Tomaszewski.
“We’d spend the summer and then at the end of every summer he would t