Stephanie Lighten and Jennifer Lighten are married. They live in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Last Tuesday in the late afternoon police responded to a call at the couple’s home. Jennifer Lighten told police that her wife Stephanie tried to forcibly inseminate her with a turkey baster and her brother’s semen. According to…
Last Friday the Massachusetts Appeals Court reversed a conviction for indecent assault and battery on a child over the age of fourteen and assault with the intent to commit rape of a child. The reason: prosecutorial misconduct based on an improper closing argument. At the time of the crime the…
Last Friday Danvers Police Detective Stephen Baldassare rented 3 rooms at a motel on Route 1 North. He then set up dates with women who were advertising “erotic services” on the internet. The first woman arrived and agreed to provide sexual services for two hundred dollars. She was arrested by…
Last week an 30 year old Fitchburg, Massachusetts man was arrested on allegations that he kidnapped, beat, threatened and sexually assaulted three women in a carjacking incident. He is now being held without bail at the Bridgewater State Hospital and being evaluated for mental health issues. Shortly after 10:00 p.m.…
In July of 2007 a Quincy Police officer saw William McKinley “acting affectionately” with a teenager in the lobby of a hotel. After an investigation the officer learned that the subject had been “red flagged” by a federal agency for possible sex crimes involving a minor. Subsequently McKinley’s hotel room…
Eighteen year old Joshua Rodriguez from Marblehead was arraigned in the Lynn District Court on charges that he raped three girls under the age of sixteen all within a six week period. According to reports, a 14 year old and a 15 year old complained that they were raped in…
According to police Rayfield McCants, 28 of Cambridge, Massachusetts got onto an MBTA bus Tuesday night and intentionally rubbed himself against a woman passenger. Afterwards, when the woman exited the bus McCants followed her and harassed her until a bus driver came to her aid. McCants now stands charged with…
Harold Kaupp was convicted in Middlesex County of possession of child pornography in violation of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 272 Section 29C. That law makes it a crime for anyone to purchase or possess pornographic material depicting a child engaging in certain acts. There are seven such forbidden acts defined…
The Quincy Patriot Ledger reports that Andrew Mullen, 26 of Quincy has been arrested and charged with rape in the Quincy District Court in connection with his hiring of an escort on Christmas day. Apparently the man called the woman who arrived at Mullen’s home late Christmas day. There was…
Boston.com reported that a 29 year old Abington School teacher has been charged in the Brockton Court with statutory rape for having had intercourse with a 13 year old boy over three hundred times in the past eighteen months. Read article, Boston.com, January 9, 2009. The first act of rape…