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EUGENE -- The sex crimes case against prominent gay activist Terry Bean of Portland and his ex-boyfriend will be dismissed Tuesday because the alleged victim refuses to testify.

 

Bean, 67, and former boyfriend Kiah Loy Lawson, 25, are accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy at a Eugene hotel in 2013. They each are charged with two counts of third-degree sodomy, a felony, and third-degree sexual abuse, a misdemeanor.

 

The boy, now 17, has been on the run from detectives trying to serve a subpoena that would have required him to appear at the trial, which is scheduled to start Tuesday.

 

The boy doesn't want testify and has attempted suicide because he's traumatized by the prospect of being forced to appear, said his attorney, Lori Deveny.

Without him, the state can't proceed.

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/port..._sex_crime_char.html

 

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