Ex-Boston police union boss pleads guilty to child rape, abuse charges

The previous head of Boston’s police union was sentenced to as much as 13 years behind bars after he admitted he raped and sexually abused six kids.

Ex-Police Patrolmen’s Affiliation boss Patrick Rose, 67, pleaded responsible to 21 counts involving victims between the ages of seven and 16 in a case that sparked criticism that the previous cop’s abuse was swept underneath the rug by the division.

Rose, whose crimes spanned a 27-year interval, had been accused of intercourse abuse within the Nineteen Nineties however was allowed to remain on the job for 2 extra a long time even after an inner investigation discovered he probably dedicated against the law.

Rose cried in court docket Monday as a few of his victims delivered impression statements.

“I noticed you for what you actually are – a coward, a predator of the weak and defenseless,” one sufferer stated.

One other stated Rose’s repute was “completely gone.”

“All you’ll ever be remembered as is one other creep who has nothing going for him,” the sufferer stated. “Your job as a cop defending individuals? [Well] that’s actually fairly ironic isn’t it?”

The previous union boss apologized for his “despicable conduct” in a press release learn in court docket, the place he was sentenced to no less than 10 years in jail.

“I apologize to my former colleagues,” he stated. “I apologize to my former associates, however extra importantly, the extra necessary factor in my life, I apologize to my household. To these I damage, I’m so very sorry.”

Rose, who served as union president from 2014 till his retirement in 2018, was arrested in August 2020 on accusations he sexually assaulted a relative for 5 years starting when she was 7 years outdated, NBC Boston reported.

5 different victims stepped ahead within the aftermath, however Rose initially denied the costs and pleaded not responsible, the station stated.

Paperwork launched final yr of a 1996 inner police division probe confirmed that high officers concluded Rose probably sexually abused a toddler but he continued to patrol in Dorchester and work together with kids and sex-abuse victims, masslive.com reported.

District Lawyer Kevin Hayden stated Monday he hoped the responsible plea offered “some stage of therapeutic and restoration” for the victims.

“Anybody who was in that courtroom in the present day is aware of the super braveness, fortitude and bravado that they withstood all through this whole horrible incident,” Hayden stated in a press release. “These are monstrous, monstrous acts.”

With Publish wires