Napa State Hospital

A former director of Napa State Hospital, who was convicted in January of forcibly raping young boys during a four-decade sex-crime spree, was sentenced to 248 years in state prison today.

For years, Ed Foulk surrounded himself with young boys, adopting one and taking in several as foster children. Foulk met one such victim when the boy was a 10-year-old patient at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, where Foulk was working as a pediatric nurse.

The Daily Beast reported that Foulk, 63, often lured boys with sleepovers, theme-park trips and rides in his Ferrari.

In September 2009, one of Foulk’s victims, now a healthcare personnel provider, spotted him on the grounds of Napa State Hospital while making a sales call there. The man, identified as Rick W., 46, contacted police in Long Beach, where his abuse had occurred. The subsequent investigation and Foulk’s arrest brought forth more than 10 alleged victims, all now adults. Five testified against him at his trial.

Foulk was convicted of 31 counts, including forced sodomy and oral copulation with minors.

Foulk was head of Napa State Hospital from 2007 until his firing in early 2010, and the facility was wracked with violent incidents in recent years, as reported by The Bay Citizen.