A Dorchester man will spend 10 to 12 years in state jail for raping a family member at the very least 3 times when she was between 8 and 12 years previous within the mid-Nineties.
Judge Sarah Weyland Ellis on Wednesday morning sentenced Edgard Andre to 10 to 12 years every for 2 counts of rape of a kid, which can be served concurrently. She imposed an extra three years of probation for the third baby rape rely. The trial started on Nov. 16 and jurors on Tuesday convicted him on all three baby rape counts.
“There’s no way to quantify the toll that his actions have taken on me,” mentioned the sufferer, now 40 years previous, on the sentencing listening to. “While I’ve all through the years excelled academically and even professionally, it has not come with out years and years of tears.
“As I recall the events that happened to me during my childhood, being molested by the defendant has made me very reluctant to trust new people after meeting them out of fear that they will cause harm to me in some way or might have some ill intent.”
Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden mentioned that the sufferer “deserves special credit, because it was her determination, her factual assurance and her compelling testimony that made the verdict possible.”
The sufferer first disclosed to her household physician in 1995 that Andre, in a relationship together with her mother, had raped her at the very least 3 times of their residence within the first block of Codman Hill Avenue in Dorchester, in line with the Commonwealth’s Statement of the Case filed Sept. 30, 2016.
The rapes occurred when the younger lady was left alone with Andre, in line with the assertion of the case doc.
When the household physician filed the mandated report on what the lady had mentioned, her mom agreed to work with the Department of Children and Families — then referred to as the Department of Social Services — to plan a plan to maintain the 2 aside by dwelling in separate residences throughout the residence.
“However, given the fact that the child’s mother and defendant had a toddler together and because she needed his financial contribution, and was ashamed, mother did not pursue the criminal matter,” the doc states.
Instead, the ladies at 32 years previous walked into the Suffolk Family Justice Center in 2015 to report the rapes and the authorized course of started, lastly resulting in Andre’s conviction primarily based on her testimony.
“The fact that 12 strangers members of the jury heard my story and what happened to me and felt enough empathy for me to obtain the justice that I thought as a child means so much to me and is an important step in my healing,” the girl mentioned in her listening to assertion.
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