Criminal Sentence

Leo Robert Schofield Sr., 69, was handed a 12-year prison term this past Thursday after confessing to the sexual abuse of a minor within his family circle. The sentencing was reported by the Idaho Mountain Express. Terms of Incarceration and Parole Schofield Sr. must serve a minimum of four years behind bars before qualifying for […]

George H. Lunt, 27, of Plymouth, Mass, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release for his transportation and possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz for the District of Massachusetts and […]

Former state Sen. Joseph “Jim” Marzilli is out of jail, outfitted with a GPS monitor, two months after pleading guilty to sexually-laden incidents in Lowell, reports the Boston Herald. Marzilli, who declined to comment to the Herald when reached at his Arlington home, was released from the Billerica House of Correction on April 29 even […]

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 Boston doctor avoided going to trial by admitting to a judge yesterday that he traveled to Alaska in 2009 with the intention of having sex with a 6-year-old boy. The Associated Press reports that John Mark Felton, a 47-year-old research physician, was to be tried Monday in US District Court in Anchorage. He decided […]

The New York Daily News reports that disgraced former Christ the King hoops coach Bob Oliva will plead guilty April 4 to sexual abuse, after spending several years trying to fend off sex-abuse allegations by claiming he is the target of a conspiracy to destroy his reputation. Oliva pleaded not guilty to rape of a […]

William F. Murphy, 51, of West Roxbury, Mass., has been sentenced to 10 years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for a child pornography offense, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz and Richard DesLauriers, Special […]

Kevin Sledge, a suspended officer from the Lawrence city police department, has been sentenced to serve no less than 10 years without parole in a state prison. The sentence comes following his conviction for raping a 23-year-old mother while he was on duty and in uniform back in 2008. Sledge’s Misuse of Authority Sledge, a […]

A former Holyoke, Massachusetts school teacher who ran off with a male student and pleaded guilty to statutory rape charges was given probation yesterday by a judge who said he does not see her as a sexual predator. Lisa Lavoie, a 25-year-old former teacher at Maurice Donahue Elementary School in Holyoke, was charged in 2009 […]

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 […]

The highest court in Massachusetts says homeless sex offenders should not be punished for being unable to keep their GPS monitoring devices charged. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday in the case of John Canadyan Jr., a homeless man who was sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of indecent […]

A 79-year-old Sandwich man convicted of child rape in 2004 is facing the prospect of civil commitment to a treatment center for sexually dangerous offenders. William Mulcahy was temporarily committed Friday to the Massachusetts Treatment Center at the Bridgewater Correctional Complex at least until a Dec. 10 probable cause hearing. The hearing will determine whether […]

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 […]

The Boston Globe did a nice job with a front-page article about a violent teenage prostitution ring in Boston. Next month, one of the perpetrators is scheduled to be sentenced in US District Court in Boston for his role in the abuse. Another perp is already serving a 25-year prison sentence. They were convicted last […]

A one-time drifter was sentenced to three life terms in prison for raping a 13-year-old relative in her Dorchester home two years ago. Prosecutors this week went through a series of hearings to try and ensure the toughest possible sentence for Milton Rodgers, 44, who had been convicted of raping another child in 1988 and […]

A Wilmington, Massachusetts man has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for molesting two 6-year-old girls more than a decade ago. Herbert Dorazio, a father of four from Wilmington, was sentenced on Thursday in Middlesex Superior Court after being found guilty last week of child rape and assault with intent to rape. […]

A Framingham, Mass. doctor will spend up to 7 years in state prison after his conviction last week on charges that he sexually assaulted a minor over a four-year period, the Middlesex district attorney’s office said, as reported by today’s Boston Globe. Manuel Raagas, 63, was convicted of two counts of indecent assault and battery […]