Convictions

Douglas L. Wright, 41, of North Chelmsford, Mass ., was sentenced to five years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for transportation and possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz, and […]

A former Jesuit priest and teacher at Boston College High School was released from prison in late March after serving time for a 2005 conviction on sexual abuse charges, according to the state correction department. James Talbot, now 73, left the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater after completing his sentence, according to Diane Wiffin, a […]

An eastern Kanawha County (West Virginia) man who allegedly used his interest in vampires to meet underage girls has pleaded guilty to a single count of sexual abuse, as reported by the Associated Press. Bryan Confere, 21, of Diamond pleaded Thursday to a single count of first-degree sexual abuse as the result of a plea […]

The Berkshire Eagle reports that Gary Mercure, the Catholic priest, could spend the rest of his life in prison for raping two altar boys in the Berkshires. It took less than two hours for a Berkshire Superior Court jury to convict the 62-year-old on three counts of forcible child rape and one count of indecent […]

The Boston Globe reports that a former Chelsea District Court clerk magistrate has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for coercing two women into having sex with him at the courthouse. “He took my dignity,” one of the victims told the judge just before James M. Burke, 43, of Chelsea, was sentenced. “He […]

A man who was convicted of raping two women in Somerville four decades ago now faces a potential lifetime commitment under the state’s Sexually Dangerous Person laws, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office and the Somerville Journal. On Friday, a Suffolk Superior Court Judge sent John J. Kelleher, 59, to the Massachusetts Treatment […]

A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Friday convicted Torrey Browne, 34, of raping a woman on his boat at the Dorchester Yacht Club after she told him she didn’t want a romantic relationship with him, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office reported to the Dorchester Reporter. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Regina Quinlan ordered Browne, a […]