The Stoughton police officer accused of grooming, impregnating after which killing Canton girl Sandra Birchmore has been charged with inflicting the loss of life of her unborn little one, in accordance with court docket paperwork.
A federal grand jury has indicted Matthew Farwell, 38, of North Easton, with killing Birchmore’s unborn child boy, whose gestational age, in accordance with court docket paperwork, was “between 8 and 10 weeks.”
The revelation was disclosed in a superseding indictment posted to the federal docket on Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors say Farwell groomed Birchmore whereas she was nonetheless a toddler. At simply 12 years previous, Birchmore joined the Police Explorers Academy, a youth program run by the Stoughton Police that included Farwell amongst its academics. Prosecutors say Farwell first groomed the woman after which took her virginity when she was 15.
Prosecutors say he impregnated her after which strangled the then-23-year-old to loss of life in her Canton residence on Feb. 1, 2021 — staging it to appear like a suicide.
Farwell was employed as a Stoughton Police Officer throughout all of it. Farwell is 12 years older than Birchmore. He had three kids together with his spouse and maintained a sexual relationship with Birchmore, court docket paperwork allege, till her loss of life.
Native authorities in Norfolk County deemed Birchmore’s loss of life a suicide and declined to prosecute earlier than federal authorities took up the case. Whereas Massachusetts is just not a loss of life penalty state, federal regulation permits for the loss of life penalty, which prosecutors could take up on this case.
The federal case towards the previous Stoughton cop has been delayed quite a few occasions. A decide earlier this month scheduled Farwell’s trial to start subsequent October.
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