WARREN The Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office has penned a letter opposing the parole of a man convicted of raping multiple juveniles back in 2013.

Seventy-two-year-old Charles Bland is serving a prison sentence of 10 years to life on four counts of rape, two counts of gross sexual imposition, one count of illegal use of minor in nudity-oriented material or performance and 25 counts of pandering obscenity involving minors.

Prosecutors say Bland falsely claimed to be a professor, philosopher, doctor, scientist and astronomer while living in a trailer park in Trumbull County, even going as far as to print counterfeit degrees and diplomas to hang on his wall.

Using these fake credentials, Bland lured unsuspecting children into his mobile home under the guise of "tutoring" them. Bland

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