Florida lawyer and his nurse girlfriend sexually abused a 10-year-old boy — together
Note: This story was edited to remove a description of the case that was in poor taste.
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A Naples attorney and his nurse girlfriend are serving time and have lost their professional licenses after being accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy in 2019 and 2020.
Ralph Colledge was disbarred and Sara Black lost her nursing license. Both also are in prison, accused of sexual battery, the legal term in Florida for “rape,” and molestation. An affidavit for criminal offense says the child told Collier County sheriff’s detectives “he never said anything because he was afraid of the consequences. [He] said he just wants it to stop.”
Everything has stopped for Colledge and Black. Colledge, who turned 43 last week, was disbarred on April 21, 23 days after starting concurrent 20-year prison sentences on two counts of sexual battery or attempted sexual battery by an adult on a victim under the age of 12.
Black, 39, voluntarily surrendered the registered nursing license she’d held since 2008 on Feb. 22. She was 15 days into a 25-year stretch as a prison resident for one count of lewd and lascivious molestation by an adult of a child under 12.
What follows comes from the affidavits for criminal offense filed in Collier County Circuit Court.
In May 2020, a Department of Children and Families Child Protective Investigator told the sheriff’s office about a DCF report that alleged Colledge and Black were “engaging in sexual behavior in the presence of” child relatives. The kids were interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center, a nonprofit that deals with abused children and lists doing forensic interviews as part of its duties.
A 10-year-old boy told the interviewer he knew why he was being interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center: “...because I was touched in a way.” Asked by who, he said, “Sara.”
Black is accused of showing the boy her breasts and later taking him to Colledge’s room and locking the door. The affidavit says the boy recounted to the interviewer a sexual encounter.
Of the encounters, the boy said that [Colledge] told him that “this was their secret.”
This story was originally published May 4, 2022 at 8:16 AM.
