A Suffolk County Superior Court docket Jury convicted an Irish firefighter of raping a lady in 2024 following a second trial on the cost.
Terence Crosbie, 39, a firefighter from Dublin, Eire, was convicted of rape in Boston on Friday. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 30.
“We’re absolutely elated,” prosecutor Erin Murphy advised reporters following the decision. “From the very beginning we both credited and supported the survivor in this case who bravely came forward after becoming a victim of sexual violence.”
Crosbie was charged with raping a lady on the Omni Parker Home resort on Faculty Road in downtown Boston in March 2024 whereas he was visiting town for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. He was tried earlier however that resulted in a hung jury.
Murphy mentioned that the identical day the trial resulted in mistrial the DA’s workplace determined it might retry the case, as a result of “it was not hard at all to do the right thing.”
“The challenge was never the evidence,” Murphy mentioned. “The issue got here with figuring out what the protection can be, that this was simply the phrase of a lady. This was a lady who drank alcohol. It is a lady who should have simply been confused and never identified what occurred to her personal physique.
“And knowing that there are really outdated attitudes that can make their way into a jury room,” she continued. “So knowing what we would have to combat in the jury room with regard to that, not because of any holes in the evidence or anything like that, but knowing that we would have to overcome those attitudes.”
Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden mentioned that he hopes the decision helps be certain that “survivors to know that they’re protected and that we’ll at all times be with them.
“In this particular case, we are here because the jury heard what the survivor in this case had to say and heard her testimony and all the surrounding facts,” Hayden continued. “And so we can’t thank her enough for her courage, for her strength and her fortitude. She had to go through this twice, not once, but twice, and she should be applauded for that. And we’re happy with the verdict, but we’re most of all happy for her and that hopefully this brings her some measure of justice and some measure of peace.”
