A person who police stated had fled to Florida after raping an 8-year-old woman after which taunted the household that he was hiding “in paradise” and can by no means be discovered was discovered responsible of raping the woman.
Scott McCaffrey, 56, variously reported as being from Abington or South Weymouth, was discovered responsible Wednesday after a four-day trial in Plymouth Superior Court of 5 counts of aggravated rape of a kid, 4 counts of indecent assault and battery on a toddler below 14 and one depend every of dissemination of dangerous matter to a minor and lewd, wanton and lascivious conduct.
The 8-year-old woman had reported to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s workplace in January 2020 that McCaffrey sexually assaulted her on “numerous occasions,” within the phrases of the DA’s workplace, in 2014 and 2015. Abington Police investigated the declare and issued a warrant for McCaffrey’s arrest.
Plymouth Superior Court clerk officers had been unable to search out his court docket information, which might have supplied additional particulars of his crimes, when requested by the Herald Thursday.
Abington police alerted the police division in Stuart, Florida — the small metropolis on the state’s southeast coast McCaffrey had allegedly termed his “paradise” within the taunting messages police contend he despatched the household — had been alerted to his potential presence there on March 10, 2020.
The subsequent day, members of the Stuart Police Department discovered McCaffrey residing on a yacht there, boarded the vessel and arrested him, in response to a press release they launched following his arrest.
“Scott McCaffrey’s paradise found turned into paradise lost in a very short amount of time,” the Stuart Police Department wrote of their assertion following his arrest there. “All of us consider the City of Stuart paradise and we would like to thank the Abington Police Department for helping us keep it that way.”
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