Oregon man accused of child sex abuse commits suicide

3-25-2011 Oregon:

CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. - The defendant in a child sex abuse shot himself in the chest and died in his front yard after telling his family he was going outside to drive to court.

Frank W. Andrew Wilson, 64, of Cave Junction was found dead in the front yard of his Redwood Highway home Friday morning, the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, the Josephine County Sheriff's Office said.

Wilson was the defendant in a 2009 case invovling a female victim. Wilson was accused of abusing the girl from the time she was 5 until she was 13. ..Source.. by KVAL.com staff