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It appears that who you are plays a major role is how justice in served from the office of District Attorney John J. Conte. This is certainly true of who is prosecuted for sexual abuse and rape of children. For instance, a teacher from Shepherd Hill High School got what appears to be a sweetheart deal after she was criminally charged with sexually abusing one of her male students. She was given only probation. Let's contrast the case of Amber Jennings with what happened to Beth Geisel, a teacher in the Albany, N.Y. area, who was charged criminally with having sex with a 16-year-old student. She was sentenced to six months in jail by an Albany judge.
July 6, 2007 Security video from Geoghan slay hits Web State correction officials are investigating whether the killer convicted of strangling and stomping a pedophile priest posted a security surveillance video on YouTube showing prison guards desperately trying to pry open cell doors as the murder took place. The Herald was alerted to the posting yesterday in a handwritten note purportedly written by Joseph Druce, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the Aug. 23, 2003, slaying of 68-year-old John Geoghan. “The truth about officer involvement in John Geogan’s (sic) death,” the taunting note says, directing the reader to www.youtube.com/Joseph Druce. “The truth about officers allowing J.G. to die through their neglect.” The 10-minute video was posted June 12 under the heading “the first of many.” It shows a gaggle of correction officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center pulling at the cell doors of Druce’s cell. In 2005, the Herald obtained a security video that showed Druce coldly pantomiming Geoghan’s murder - a tape that showed how he used a paperback book to jam the sliding cell doors. December 20. 2006
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willingly left Leominster police in 2004 The 11-year-old told state police that on several occasions, Mr. Coulter made her touch his genitals and perform sex acts on him, according to reports on file in Central District Court. July 22, 2006 Ex-chief's lawyer: We're going to trial GARDNER -- A district court judge has denied a motion to dismiss a charge of sexual assault filed in March against Mount Wachusett Community College's former campus police chief. The attorney for the former chief, Robert E. Mackie, 40, of Winchendon, who faces one count of indecent assault and battery, said Friday he and his client are now preparing for a trial. "We're absolutely going to trial," Mackie's lawyer, John A. Mizhir of Winchendon, said in a telephone interview. "I don't have any choice, do I?" May 5, 2006 N. Brookfield firefighter faces child porn charges NORTH BROOKFIELD— A local
firefighter has been placed on leave pending the outcome of a case
in which he is charged with distributing child pornography and
indecent assault and battery on someone under 14 years old. March 23, 2006
AUBURN— The
former School Committee chairman is facing new charges that he
sexually assaulted a minor. March 14, 2006 Sex case against fire captain dropped
James F. Russell
EAST BROOKFIELD - A case involving the alleged indecent assault of
a girl brought against Barre Fire Department Capt. Mark S. Clarkson
last year was dismissed yesterday by request of the district
attorney, the victim and the defendant.
"The witness in
this matter did not wish to proceed," Karen J. Foley, a spokeswoman
for Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte, said yesterday. March 13, 2006 State police and victims’ parents are fuming that a Worcester judge refused to send a “most wanted” serial child rapist back to prison for fleeing to Florida and repeatedly violating his probation. Worcester Superior Court Judge John McCann put Winchendon child molester Glen Wheeler on 10 years’ probation and an electronic monitoring bracelet - even though the 56-year-old con has racked up 11 probation violations, has an alias and went on the run for eight months before being tracked down at a Tampa, Fla., mosque. Wheeler was on the state police list of “most wanted high-risk sex offenders.” February 14, 2006
WORCESTER— A rape
and kidnapping suspect who jumped bail more than 16 years ago was
ordered held without bail yesterday.
Rape suspect to be extradited Mr. Comerford was arrested in Worcester Oct. 18, 1988, after a teacher chased him from Doherty Memorial High School. He was being sought in connection with three attacks that day on women in the city's West Side. Mr. Comerford was freed on $106,000 bail posted in October 1988 by his father, James Comerford, then a state police trooper. April 17, 2005 Conte isn’t interested in help Victims’ rights group troubled by kiss-off
Kiss-offs come in many forms but they’re
still kiss-offs, even if they’re unstintingly polite and bear the seal of the
Worcester district attorney. April 15, 2005
Conte called unwilling to take abuse reports The co-founder of VictimPower.org, a Web site created to ease the process for victims of sexual abuse to report the crimes, yesterday accused Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte of not cooperating with the effort. Mr. Galebach and Mr. Conte both provided copies of a Feb. 7 letter written to VictimPower by Assistant Worcester District Attorney Christopher P. Hodgens, which states that “anonymous reports are of little if any help.” He pointed out that courts do not allow cases involving anonymous victims to be prosecuted. Sunday, October 24, 2004 It's a pet peeve of police, the
way criminals they've worked hard to arrest end up with a slap on
the wrist from the courts. As a result, Judge Austin T. Philbin placed the 10-year police veteran on pretrial probation, despite a recommendation from Assistant District Attorney Joseph J. Reilly III that Sgt. Ohman be found guilty and that he resign from the Police Department as a condition of probation. Instead, Judge Philbin left the sergeant's career up to police, and the charges will be dismissed in 18 months if Sgt. Ohman has no further difficulties with the law. |
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