A former Boston Police sergeant has been indicted on severe prices, alleging that he repeatedly raped a 14-year-old boy.
BPD Sgt. Paul Downey, 57, of West Roxbury, was indicted by a Suffolk Superior Court docket grand jury on Friday.
He faces prices of 4 counts of rape of a kid aggravated by age distinction, two counts of partaking in sexual conduct with a toddler beneath 18 for a price, and two counts of enticement of a kid beneath 16 to interact in business intercourse exercise.
“These charges are obviously very troubling and our thoughts are with any alleged victims,” Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox stated when Downey was initially charged in Dorchester District Court docket in June. “We have faith in the Massachusetts State Police and the SCDAO to conduct a thorough investigation. The officer was immediately placed on administrative leave.”
He has since retired. A BPD spokesman informed the Herald he retired on July 25.
A prosecution assertion of the case filed in district courtroom alleges that Downey first encountered the 14-year-old boy sufferer on the same-sex hookup app Grinder.
There, prosecutors say, Downey and the boy messaged one another and agreed to fulfill up on March 26. That first evening, Downey allegedly picked the boy up close to Boston and Harvest streets, drove him to a parking zone close to the South Bay buying plaza and carried out penetrative intercourse on him, for which he paid $50.
The pair continued messaging on Snapchat for 2 months earlier than their subsequent alleged hookup on Might 11. Prosecutors say Downey picked the boy up in the identical space as earlier than, drove to the identical parking zone at Jan Karski Method and West Howell Avenue, and raped the boy once more — this time paying $80.
The boy described Downey to police as “a short white male, not skinny, but overweight, over 40 years old, with thin black hair and brown eyes.” He described the car as a “slim” black automobile with tinted home windows and gave a license plate quantity as he memorized it.
When police checked on the Snapchat consumer account, they discovered info that pointed them to Downey. The boy’s description of the person and the car additional pointed towards Downey because the suspect.
Downey joined the police division on Jan. 14, 1991, in keeping with the division. He earned complete pay of $378,849 final 12 months, in keeping with metropolis payroll data. That included $150,385 of base pay and $112,416 of extra time pay.
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