SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – An inmate in the Sarasota County Jail accused of sexual battery is facing new charges of allegedly paying someone to kill an Oregon family, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said.
In December 2023, Leland Harper, 63, was convicted and sentenced in Oregon to 25 years in prison for child sexual abuse. The next month, Sarasota deputies also charged Harper with committing multiple counts of sexual battery and lewd and lascivious molestation here, a probable cause affidavit says.
Harper is appealing his sentence and is embroiled in a civil suit with the victim’s family…