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Ex-Alaska mayor and ‘parent of the year’ charged with sexual abuse of minors

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Investigators arrested Ulroan four days later and remanded him to the custody of the Anvil Mountain correctional center, a news release said. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

The former mayor of a city in Alaska – who has also coached high school girls basketball and won a parent of the year award – has been criminally charged on allegations that he sexually assaulted several teenage girls over a years-long period, according to authorities in that state.

Ulric Ulroan, 48, first drew scrutiny from Alaska’s bureau of investigation in January, when the agency received a tip that he had purportedly sexually abused a 17-year-old girl in the village of Chevak between 2009 and 2010. The tip prompted an investigation which brought forth more reports of Ulroan having “sexually assaulted and/or abused various teenage girls” between 2009 and 2025 in Chevak as well as the Alaska communities of Anchorage, Mountain Village and Nome, officials said in a news release published on Friday.

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