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

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 yearslong 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 inflicted sexual abuse on 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. That news release said a grand jury in Bethel, Alaska , then handed up an indictment on charging Ulroan on Tuesday with 47 criminal counts – among them sexual assault in the first degree, first- and second-degree sexual abuse, second-degree indecent exposure and furnishing alcohol to a person under the legal drinking age of 21. Investigators arrested Ulroan four days later and remanded him to the custody of the Anvil Mountain correctional center. The Alaska news outlet KNOM reported that bail for Ulroan was set at $250,000, and state records showed he remained at the Anvil Mountain jail as of Sunday. …