The Lawrence cop who raped a 13-year-old boy in a park the summer time of 2018 will spend at the least a decade in jail.
A Salem Superior Court jury on Oct. 25 convicted Carlos Vieira, 53, on two counts of aggravated rape of a kid and a depend of indecent assault and battery on a toddler beneath 14. On Friday, Judge Thomas Drechsler sentenced Viera to 10 to 12 years in jail.
“This defendant knew exactly what he was doing,” stated Essex Assistant DA Kate MacDougall in her sentencing argument. “There was no mistaking that the victim was a boy. And, as a police officer, his actions further eroded the public’s trust in law enforcement.”
As the Herald reported, the 20-year police officer, father and Marine veteran met the eighth-grade boy on Grindr, the LGBTQ relationship and hookup app.
The boy, who instructed authorities that he didn’t know Vieira was a police officer, rode his bike to Mount Vernon Park at 10 p.m. one summer time evening in 2018 and carried out sexual acts with the person greater than three a long time his senior.
That boy later acknowledged Vieira when he, now in police uniform, directed visitors at Beacon and Mount Vernon Streets that Sept. 13 when the kid and his aunt have been being evacuated from their neighborhood throughout that summer time’s pure gasoline explosions.
The boy’s mom didn’t be taught of the statutory rape till January of the subsequent 12 months, spoke with an lawyer and reported it to police that Jan. 28.
“The victim’s mother, who poured her life into providing a nice home for her family, had to sell her house because of its proximity to the defendant’s home and the park where her son was raped,” prosecutor MacDougall added in her sentencing argument.
Vieira will serve 5 years of probation upon completion of his jail time period and is ordered to steer clear of and don’t have any contact with the sufferer and his household, to hunt and full intercourse offender analysis and remedy, register as a intercourse offender and don’t have any unsupervised contact with kids youthful than 16.
“The defendant’s conduct is an affront to the community he swore to protect,” Essex DA Jonathan Blodgett stated in an announcement. “The victim and his entire family will never be the same. I hope that they can now find some healing and peace.”
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