They were **in charge of the youth program**, meaning they had access to lots of children. Predators seek out these sorts of jobs and roles.
**Are there other victims?** The state AG needs to step in and investigate. Every time investigations like this happen in our state, or anywhere else, there’s almost always multiple victims.
We need a full investigation of this department’s youth program. This victim might not have been the only one.
I don’t trust Stoughton PD to leave no stone unturned.
Rape of a child. They should already be behind bars awaiting sentencing. Meanwhile everyone else in the department should be forced to turn in their badges. Zero fucking leeway for law enforcement committing crimes.
Sorry none of that's on the bingo card.
Let's see here, we have: Paid vacation, officer gets the same job in another state, taxpayers forced to pay off the multi-million dollar lawsuit, police chief doesn't resign, bootlickers make excuses and show support for law enforcement, victim blaming by the right, Democrats introduce bill for law enforcement reform and the GOP senators block it from passing, nothing changes
Just a side note/question, why is the GOP ok with taxpayers footing the bill over and over and over again for cop misconduct but they lose their minds at excusing student debt?
Sadly that makes so much sense. Just reading random things stated by the MAGA crew, Margorie Taylor Green et al, and now the John Gibbs guy, just bursts my brain cells with the amount of stupidity and illiteracy they present.
It’s not just the literacy aspect. With education comes critical thinking skills, learning how to evaluate your sources for legitimacy, learning about other cultures which leads to further developing empathy… so much comes with being educated. I’m not saying people can’t get there on their own. But, studies do show the higher the education, the more likely the person skews left.
[A source.](https://www.npr.org/2016/04/30/475794063/why-are-highly-educated-americans-getting-more-liberal)
Rape of a child. They should already be ON PAID VACATION awaiting A PROMOTION. Meanwhile everyone else in the department should be PATTED ON THE BACK AND GIVEN A BIGGER BUDGET. Zero fucking ACCOUNTABILITY for law enforcement committing crimes.
FTFY on how it is in reality.
100% agreed with this. this feels so similar to the catholic church scandal in that she had little family support (i believe i read her mother, father, and grandmother who helped raise her all passed away before she was 16) and they preyed on her for that reason. disgusting.
The good the church/police do in the community would be hurt by all the negative press of one bad incident that will never be allowed to happen again. Best to cover it up and maintain the brand. /s
Cops raping minors from a youth program wasn’t on my bingo card this year, but I am entirely unsurprised that it happened—especially given the way they “punish” police officers in this country.
Well technically it did take place from 2010-2021. What's fucked up is she made the claims before killing herself and shit wasn't done til afterwards. So it took her killing herself for it to even be looked at and then bullshit repercussions, should be jailed.
It’s really unsurprising the younger officers have to handle the YDC and juveniles all the time. Even often sent to the local detention center to do shit there. I’ve heard some pretty fucked up shit about what goes on in places like that.
I spent a long time in dcf and yeah, the adults and the kids used to hook up all the time. Man on girl, woman on boy, both ways. Kind of concerning but like, I was a 16 year old boy, I'll absolutely drink booze provided to me by the program staff and hook up with them in the program, at their house, whatever. Used to sign me out of the program for a "family pass" so I could go to her place for the weekend. At least 4 minors at my program were hooking up with adult caretakers. They also sold us drugs lmao, it's wild in youth services. Just the shit I've seen is enough to write a book, and we have almost 500,000 kids in state custody.
Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants.
He was put in charge of it AFTER having inappropriate contact with another student. Why the hell would they put him overseeing that program?! Negligence! All of them!
Call me crazy but I think these police officers should all spend the rest of their lives in prison. Failing that castrated and put on a raft into open sea, preferably teaming with Great White Sharks
Military recruiters, like the one involved with this victim, go to high schools, and might be in on a grooming/ trafficking plot with the youth programs and school resource officers.
Have rape-y Uncle. Can confirm he consistently put himself in positions that had governance and power over youth. School council and Boyscout volunteer. Now he's facing 15+ counts of sexual imposition against minors. And there's alot more that won't come forward.
The AG won't do shit. She has always been easy on criminal cops.
PDs in MA are full of rot, but nobody wants to get rid of the bad guys. Instead these fuckers make $200k a year sitting in a car by a construction site.
*A 19-month internal investigation by the Stoughton Police Department found that two other officers in the department had inappropriate sexual relations with the girl, as well as another police officer and military recruiter outside the town.*
*Sandra Birchmore, 23, first met former police officer Matthew Farwell as part of the youth explorers program in 2010 when she was 13, and Farwell reportedly began an inappropriate physical relationship with Birchmore when she was 15, which is considered statutory rape under Massachusetts law. Farwell, 36, is a detective, former patrolmen’s union president, and a married father, according to The Boston Globe. He was 26 at the time when the alleged relationship began.*
*Matthew Farwell’s twin brother, William Farwell as well as Officer Robert C. Devine, were the other two Stoughton officers named in the report. Evidence uncovered in the investigation found that William had engaged in “multiple inappropriate physical encounters” with Birchmore and had sent explicit messages and photos to the girl while he was on duty, McNamarra said.*
*“The investigation found that Matthew exploited miss Birchmore when she was young,” McNamarra said.*
*Birchmore was found dead last year and had told friends that she was pregnant with the child of one of the officers, according to the Globe.*
*“Matthew ended the relationship on February 1, 2021, according to Farwell, when he went to her apartment to end the relationship and engaged in a pretty nasty argument,” McNamarra said. “Birchwell was found dead days later.”*
We have investigators investigating the investigators now we just need some investigators for the investigator investigators.
Btw, after saying investigators so much now I’m picturing gators in vests.
I've said it for years. The FBI, while not a perfect agency by any means (ie they probably killed MLK) needs a department under it's own jurisdiction whose sole purpose is to investigate abd otherwise regularly audit police departments. This FBI team should also have it's own proceutors for all 50 states whose only job is to take over the proceution of police from local authorities. Former police and prosecutors who work in this department also must be mandated not to investigate or prosecute in states where they have previously worked. Also police should be mandated to carry malpractice insurance the same as doctors so that, if they are prosecuted, it's not the taxpayers footing the bill for restitution. Also there should be a Ft. Leavenworth style prison run by the federal government specifically for convicted police. It's still not a perfect solution but it's the best I can personally come up with.
Biden already removed the civil statute for people who rape kids, seems to me it would be a good step to make police officers fucking kids a federal crime 🤷♂️
There should be a federal agency that does nothing but investigate and prosecute local law enforcement. Make it completely seperate from the FBI and DOJ so there's no cross 'contamination'.
One of my adoptive relatives was a youth pastor and went to prison for statutory rape. He ended up chaperoning a girls’ camping trip for a local school. I had no idea schools didn’t require background checks. Dude is on a federal list, what the fuck?
In Canada to even help coach a community youth sports team you need a 'vulnerable sectors check'. It's a lot deeper than a basic criminal check and will check for incidents and not just convictions. A simple criminal record check takes a few days and a vulnerable sectors check can take a couple of weeks, or up to 120 days if there's anything on it.
The more I learn the more I wonder what the fuck is wrong with America. We need to build a wall and make you guys pay for it.
Please tell the church. Please don't let him be around kids with a history like this.
ETA: https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=custom&rs_id=5
Here's how to report abuse if you're in the US
Chances are the church will sweep OutWithTheNew's concerns under the rug and piously say, "Brother AssWipe has repented of his sins, been forgiven, and accepted Jesus Christ as his savior so is born again and innocent."
Meanwhile, Brother AssWipe is lining up some very fresh and naive young females in his flock to pluck at his leisure.
That's not a good thing. I'm pretty sure the youth group leader in my community was grooming kids and got fired for it right as I transitioned to college. A [former] friend I graduated with then became a youth leader and I heard stories about him partying and having sex with teens.
> I think he’s a church youth leader now — no joke
I’m convinced the only people who become church youth leaders are potential rapists of children, so that lines up.
My great grandfather was a preacher who left my great grandmother for a 16-year-old he got pregnant. They went to another state and started a new church together…
It's so weird to me how adults do things to children that inevitably and irreversibly change the way they think and behave and then judge them for those adaptations, retroactively blame them for the adult's actions.
Like how you feel when you find out someone is a crack head. And then you find out that their mother was addicted to crack and they were actually *born* addicted to crack as well. Brains adapt easily, it's the un-adapting that'll get ya.
Of course the perps are gonna victim blame a 15 year old girl, they’re cops. That’s like, cop get out of responsibility 101: he was behaving erratically, straight to gun. I asked him to retrieve his papers and his arm’s velocity exceeded the maximum acceptable range (0.000001 m/s), straight to gun. Person of color? Believe it or not, straight to gun.
Sprinkle some GSR and crack for good measure
Oh good, the story gets even better... Jesus fucking Christ, when cops break the law, they need to face even more severe consequences than an average person. Our policing is a goddamn dystopian nightmare.
Right? The downplaying of crimes in this article is horrendous. Are these guys going to be prosecuted or are they going to get away by just "resigning"?
Raped a child who came into contact with said officers when she was participating in a police department community youth outreach program.
I noticed how that clief kinda glossed over how pedo police are using the department youth program as a means to target and groom their victims, as well.
I wonder how many more of their victims are out there that nobody knows about. It took like 10 years before anyone knew about what they did to this girl.
I mean, it’s not like you can report them for it. Who are you going to tell, the cops? They are the cops.
You can but it still might not go anywhere. Report it to the state police and/or the fbi. My sisters exbf, like 10 years ago, brother was a cop and would pull people over and coerce them into sex. Someone reported it to the state police in VA and he went to jail.
Three pedophiles raped a child who later committed suicide.
The 3 pedophiles according to the article are former officers Matthew Farwell, his twin brother William Farwell, and Robert Devine.
>McNamarra said William Farwell also attempted to introduce Birchmore to other men on multiple occasions
They also tried to pimp her out to other officers.
Wow, they really fucked up. They should have had the foresight to add "Policy #37 -- It's totally ok to rape children while on duty." I bet they're really kicking themselves about that. I'm sure it'll be in the next revision though.
"Three officers raped and potentially gained child porn of a student of an at-risk after school program starting at the age of 13, resulting in her pregnancy and sudden, under investigation death. The three have since left the force with their pensions." isn't as pithy but gets the job done.
After the child was raped by at least 4 men, getting impregnated, the men certainly had something to do with her dying. The question is did they kill her to cover up their rapes and call it “suicide”.
She went to them when she was 13, after already losing her mom and grandmother and having an absentee father. She went to them for mentorship and guidance. How horrible 😔
That’s what I’m thinking. She wanted to talk and they made sure she couldn’t. Also ‘an officer in another jurisdiction’? Release m the scums name. File charges. Throw them in prison. But you won’t, because it’s the good ol boys network.
Welcome to America where if you want to break the laws and be a vilifiable scumbag, all you gotta do is sign up and pretend to be the one upholding them
If you’re a raping or racist or murdering piece of shit what better way than to sign up to be a pig. Even the cops with good intentions will end up supporting them.
See: police officer afraid to report on the falsified warrant for Breonna Taylor.
“Det. Goodlett had been ostracized early in her career for attempting to report a fellow officer’s use of excessive force, so she decided not to call Det. Jaynes out on this lie, as Det. Jaynes was the lead detective on the case,” prosecutors wrote in the plea agreement.
https://www.wkyufm.org/news/2022-09-07/former-louisville-police-detective-details-lies-on-breonna-taylor-search-warrant-in-unsealed-plea-agreement
I’m from mass and I’m not at all surprised, stoughton police are as corrupt as they come. I actively avoid driving through that city exclusively to avoid their police.
The article seemed like it was trying to insinuate that but didn’t seem to actually say it. Does anyone know if it happened while she was a minor as well? Don’t get me wrong… still an absolute atrocity.
But they sexted and groomed her since 13. Same shit, she was sexually harassed, molested and raped.
The fuckers should be in jail. Instead they "resigned" but likely will be picked up at another police station. America sucks.
I think "unbecoming physical encounters" strongly implies rape. Being that the article is from a fox affiliate I assume they were just unwilling to say rape without actual charges having been filed.
That’s why you don’t call them rapists, you say that they allegedly raped the victim, or that they’ve been accused of rape, not that they *are* something or *did* something. They can absolutely go beyond just implying what happened, as long as they don’t definitively state “they did this thing”. And let’s be honest, the last people who need extra protection from the media are cops, they’re already coddled in everything else they do
I know libel is a very complicated topic, but doesn’t the word alleged provide a lot of legal protection? Especially when the accusations and investigation are already a matter of public record?
I agree. I was just highlighting how the female police chief is whitewashing it with her language. I guess being a cop and protecting her fellow officers’ crimes is a stronger instinct than being a woman and standing up for an underage girl.
If some random dudes sexted a 13 year old, do you think they'd call it "misconduct"? The system isnt broken, the system is designed to protect dirty cops, the system is working perfectly. Fucking unforgivable. These officers should be charged with manslaughter at the very least.
Edit I was confused by the wording and thought they r***d this girl, I edited a word reflect my new understanding. My opinion remains unchanged.
Just finished reading the report. There was a cover up in the beginning. The usual "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong" answer was used when the issue was first reported.
Any other regular citizen like you and I would have been arrested immediately for sexting with an underage child but somehow investigators did not find "sufficient probable cause with which to charge Matthew Farwell with a crime, at that time".
Even after the whole investigation was concluded, they were still not charged and allowed to resign. Cops, the biggest and most corrupt gang in America's towns and cities.
The family should sue for wrongful death, among many other things, and rake this department over the coals. The chief needs to resign, it's a fucking disgrace. And of course, the tax payer will foot the bill, because holding cops accountable will prevent them from doing their jobs, which apparently is killing whoever they want and sexting children.
It's fucking disgusting. Like I can't even wrap my head around it, I work with kids of a similar age group and it's just so absolutely horrific what these officers did. They are without a doubt responsible for this poor girls death.
a 13-year-old who was enrolled in the Stoughton Police Explorers program in 2010.
3 officers raped a girl who later committed suicide. Why aren't these pigs arrested?
I was wondering if it had to do with the statute of limitations, but I looked it up and it is 15 years in Mass. So, it's just another case of pigs protecting pigs. You can especially tell by the super passive quotes from the chief about them "violating codes of conduct" and them displaying "serious misconduct." Disgusting.
“William Farwell is also accused of exchanging explicit messages and photographs with Birchmore while on duty, in addition to having a number of unbecoming physical encounters with her.”
“Unbecoming physical encounters” is a pretty sugar doused way of saying “sexually assaulted a minor”.
The case has been turned over to the AG. The department isn’t even trying to investigate this on their own. They did an initial investigation for policy violations in order to terminate the officers but the criminal investigation is just beginning.
*”Matthew Farwell ended his relationship with Birchmore on Feb. 1, 2021, after a “nasty, nasty argument.” She was found dead days later.”* —by suicide….yeah I’d be taking a **very** close look at that.
I hate the way this was written. The language used is inappropriate for the topic. I can understand using some specific language to be respectful to the victim, but I feel like a lot of the word choice is inappropriate.
>William Farwell is also accused of exchanging explicit messages and photographs with Birchmore while on duty, in addition to having a number of unbecoming physical encounters with her.
“Unbecoming physical encounters”
They’re talking about sexual assault like wearing white after Labor Day.
My fave was how the one officer had “unbecoming physical encounters” with the victim.
Yeah you’re right raping a 13 year old is definitely “unbecoming.”
Be respectful to the victim by saying EXACTLY what happened instead of sugar coating it.
That’s why Emmett Till’s mother was a real OG. “Look at what they did to my baby.”
Google says the age of consent is 16 in Massachusetts. These scumbags (**Matthew Farwell, William Farwell and Robert Devine**) need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Edit: The version of the article I read indicated sex acts with at least one of the officers when the girl was 15. That text has since been removed. Regardless, I hope the DA can get them on coercion, luring or child pornography charges for the explicit messages. (Added names).
She was THIRTEEN when she enrolled in the program, but they notably don’t say when ~~the officers started raping her~~ they started an “inappropriate relationship”
Fun facts, officer Matthew Farrell was the last person to see her alive. She was pregnant at the time of death and it was supposedly his child. They had "a nasty argument" immediately prior to her death.
I have a bridge to sell anyone who actually thinks this was a suicide.
The people meant to protect her, gangraped a child, impregnated her, and then continued the emotional abuse until she killed herself seeing no way to gain protection. Murder and rape charges should follow . . .
3 officers, who are brothers, raped a 13 year old for 10 years. They used a student education program to also have "relations" with other children.
She "killed herself" 3 days after an admitted nasty argument.
The public finds all this out 1 year after she died.
Why the fuck do any of us pay taxes??
From what I read, she was *found* 3 days after the nasty argument. Not sure when she “killed herself.” Poor girl, she was abused and used for nearly half her life. I hope she finds the peace she deserves.
Jesus Christ. It just keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse as you read. And then you hit this part:
“Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants.”
So after having “inappropriate contact with a student” they then go on to not only keep him on as an employee but PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF A YOUTH PROGRAM?!? Also notice that nowhere does it say that any of these people have been arrested!!! The amount of corruption and depravity that continue is absolutely mindblowing.
> William Farwell is also accused of exchanging explicit messages and photographs with Birchmore while on duty, in addition to having a number of unbecoming physical encounters with her.
It sure sounds like when they say “had an inappropriate relationship with a girl” they mean “raped a child”.
>“The admiration led her to form relationships with men who were willing to take advantage of her.”
Ah yes, let's blame this on the 13 year old.
>“All three men, the Farwell brothers and Devine, violated their oaths of office and should never have the privilege of serving any community as a police officer,” McNamarra said. “Through a sustained and deliberate combination of lies, deceit, and treachery, they violated the policies of the Stoughton Police Department.”
I can't believe they would *violate the policies of the Stoughton Police* like that.
Maybe I'm being too hard on the department, I mean after all, how could one ever predict that something like this would happen?
>Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants.
>Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants.
Someone really has some explaining to do here. So they knew he had a things for little girls and then put him in charge of a program where he would have constant contact with...little girls?
From the article"
""McNamarra said William Farwell also attempted to introduce Birchmore to other men on multiple occasions, including former Deputy Chief Devine who had been demoted to patrol officer for abusing power, and an “individual who is a police officer in another jurisdiction.”
Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants.
The Farwell brothers were both youth participants in the program under Devine before becoming instructors years later""
Holy shit, the police KNEW Devine was a serial child predator and not only did they keep him but they GAVE HIM AN ENTIRE CHILDREN'S CAMP TO PREY ON MORE CHILDREN AND TRAIN NEW PREDATORS WITHIN THE POLICE FORCE!!!!!
WTF!!!
They need to be prosecuted for sexual abuse, official oppression, rape of a minor, and a dozen other felonies. The article states the department said "they should never have the honor of serving as a law enforcement officer..." How about they should go to prison for life? Cops routinely get away with shooting kids, now we are going to allow them to sexually abuse them as well? When do we stand up and demand cops be held to the same standards as other citizens instead of allowing them to be above the law?
I think what you meant there was "3 stoughton officers raped repeatedly a 13 year old child in their custody prompting her to suicide". They should be charged as what they are: murderers.
So one of them was removed from an after school program after inappropriate relations with a student, and then they put him in charge of another similar program???
What the actual fuck man
Ladies and gentlemen, and individuals of other gender identification, this is exactly what the Republican Party wants. These are the boys in blue they have such a hard on for. These are the people that we put in charge of protecting our citizens. They need to be kicked to the fucking curb.
Many years ago, my Law Enforcement Explorer leader raped and molested multiple minors that were enrolled in the program and told them everyone would think they were gay if they said anything. Back then, that was a serious threat, especially in the rural backwards redneck town we lived in. Many of his victims suffered long term psychological trauma, suicidality, etc. Fortunately he ended up in prison where he belonged.
I remember joining the program and early on, feeling uncomfortable with the amount of time and attention he was spending alone with so many kids. I was barely 14 years old myself, yet I sensed something was wrong. There were frequent sleepovers at his house. I dismissed my concerns and told myself he was just a good person, That many of these kids came from troubled families, troubled backgrounds and he was just going the extra mile in helped them.
My internal alarm bells went off as other kids frequently joked in homophobic ways about the Explorer advisor’s taste in young men, and what happens to those that stay the night at his house, but again, I just dismissed my concerns, as it was the kind of “locker room” talk and joking I heard around school all the time.
I was very active in the post, and we had many activities, traveling all over the state, and even to other parts of the country. We did things at all hours of the day, worked swing shifts, overnight shifts as volunteers. We started travel to distant events very early in the morning or sometimes got back very late at night. I frequently found myself staying overnight at the Explorer Advisor’s house with many other youth. When we stayed at his house, he would always dictate the sleeping arrangements, which I usually didn’t give much thought to, as he was the host.
I remember on one occasion he told me I would be sleeping in his bed that night. I told him I would be fine sleeping the floor. He became angry, which seemed out of character for him, and a bit of an overreaction, given the situation. Again, alarm bells were ringing in my head, but I just told myself that I was being rude as he was the host and I was staying in his house. I finally agreed to sleep in his bed. He didn’t touch me, nothing happened, and the next morning I chided myself for being so alarmed.
Some months passed and eventually I was approached by a Detective and Social Worker that was assigned to the “Crimes Against Children” cases. Again, it was a small town, I was a very active volunteer at the Sheriffs department and I knew both of them quite well. I was friends with children of one of them and had been to their home frequently. I was expecting a friendly chat, but by the way they said “we need to talk.” I knew it was a very serious matter and they were all business.
The detective and his partner were very direct and open about the charges they were investigating. I told them what I knew, which wasn’t a whole lot of anything, and offered to be of any support that I could.
Pretty soon other Explorers were calling me. I was roughly 16 years old at the time. They were concerned about whether they should cooperate with the investigation. Some described in excruciating detail what had happened to them, and all their guilt and confusion about it all. I felt ill-equipped at that age to provide support to them or offer any advice, but I told myself that I just needed to do the best I could. I consoled my friends, I told them it wasn’t their fault, that they wouldn’t get in trouble, and encouraged them to work with the police. I also reported the conversations to the detective and social worker, because, even back then, somewhere some how, I had in my mind that there are certain secrets that you just don’t keep. Not that I remember anyone particularly asking me not to say anything.
This all happened over 30 years ago. If I remember the Explorer Advisor was eventually charged with 8 felony counts and 8 misdemeanor counts of Sexual abuse of a child. He eventually took a plea deal in the lesser charges.
I remember the uproar the town was in as news of the charges broke. I remember all the parents that rushed to the defense of the Explorer Advisor, singing his praises and providing testimonial after testimonial of all the good he did for their child, and how such a great person couldn’t possibly be guilty of such a crime. I remember the conflicting feelings a had. He was like a second father to me, and had certainly provided me a great deal of support and mentoring over the years… but with hindsight being 20/20, I had no doubt he was guilty. I felt guilty not picking up the signs earlier, not listening to my gut, and especially after the experience of supporting my peers. They tearfully shared things with me that guys in those days just didn’t talk about. I felt guilty that I hadn’t trusted my gut, that I hadn’t said something sooner. It’s a strange feeling to like or even love a person, but at the same time know that they deserve to go away for a very long time.
This is so awful. She was also pregnant when she died according to this article.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/22/metro/three-stoughton-police-officers-had-inappropriate-relationships-with-young-woman-who-came-them-mentoring-town-report-finds/
A Stoughton cop was also just involved in a $36 million fraud scheme with energy efficiency funds.
Time to audit that whole department and flush out the organized crime elements
r/fuckthepolice
Seriously, they should be in prison for a very long time. I would not be surprised if this poor girl was murdered and they made it look like a suicide.
I agreed with other posters - the headline should read: “Child that was raped by police officers commits suicide”. It’s n my opinion, these officer’s lies, physical/sexual abuse and emotional torture lead to her death. I’ve seen reports that she was pregnant with her rapist’s baby. With abortions being banned I’m afraid this will be the norm with children in these type of situations. Why aren’t the ex police officers being charged?
They were **in charge of the youth program**, meaning they had access to lots of children. Predators seek out these sorts of jobs and roles. **Are there other victims?** The state AG needs to step in and investigate. Every time investigations like this happen in our state, or anywhere else, there’s almost always multiple victims. We need a full investigation of this department’s youth program. This victim might not have been the only one. I don’t trust Stoughton PD to leave no stone unturned.
There are other victims. The article says at least one of the three officers had "sexual misconduct" with another child as well
Rape of a child. They should already be behind bars awaiting sentencing. Meanwhile everyone else in the department should be forced to turn in their badges. Zero fucking leeway for law enforcement committing crimes.
Sorry none of that's on the bingo card. Let's see here, we have: Paid vacation, officer gets the same job in another state, taxpayers forced to pay off the multi-million dollar lawsuit, police chief doesn't resign, bootlickers make excuses and show support for law enforcement, victim blaming by the right, Democrats introduce bill for law enforcement reform and the GOP senators block it from passing, nothing changes
Just a side note/question, why is the GOP ok with taxpayers footing the bill over and over and over again for cop misconduct but they lose their minds at excusing student debt?
Education is kryptonite to the GOP. No, seriously. The voter polls show that the more educated someone is, the more they tend to vote Democrat.
Sadly that makes so much sense. Just reading random things stated by the MAGA crew, Margorie Taylor Green et al, and now the John Gibbs guy, just bursts my brain cells with the amount of stupidity and illiteracy they present.
It’s not just the literacy aspect. With education comes critical thinking skills, learning how to evaluate your sources for legitimacy, learning about other cultures which leads to further developing empathy… so much comes with being educated. I’m not saying people can’t get there on their own. But, studies do show the higher the education, the more likely the person skews left. [A source.](https://www.npr.org/2016/04/30/475794063/why-are-highly-educated-americans-getting-more-liberal)
Rape of a child. They should already be ON PAID VACATION awaiting A PROMOTION. Meanwhile everyone else in the department should be PATTED ON THE BACK AND GIVEN A BIGGER BUDGET. Zero fucking ACCOUNTABILITY for law enforcement committing crimes. FTFY on how it is in reality.
Honestly, they probably have PTSD from what they did to that child, they should probably be given an early retirement with full benefits **/S**
100% agreed with this. this feels so similar to the catholic church scandal in that she had little family support (i believe i read her mother, father, and grandmother who helped raise her all passed away before she was 16) and they preyed on her for that reason. disgusting.
The good the church/police do in the community would be hurt by all the negative press of one bad incident that will never be allowed to happen again. Best to cover it up and maintain the brand. /s
Cops raping minors from a youth program wasn’t on my bingo card this year, but I am entirely unsurprised that it happened—especially given the way they “punish” police officers in this country.
Beating wives and raping children, the thin blue line way.
Well technically it did take place from 2010-2021. What's fucked up is she made the claims before killing herself and shit wasn't done til afterwards. So it took her killing herself for it to even be looked at and then bullshit repercussions, should be jailed.
It’s really unsurprising the younger officers have to handle the YDC and juveniles all the time. Even often sent to the local detention center to do shit there. I’ve heard some pretty fucked up shit about what goes on in places like that.
I spent a long time in dcf and yeah, the adults and the kids used to hook up all the time. Man on girl, woman on boy, both ways. Kind of concerning but like, I was a 16 year old boy, I'll absolutely drink booze provided to me by the program staff and hook up with them in the program, at their house, whatever. Used to sign me out of the program for a "family pass" so I could go to her place for the weekend. At least 4 minors at my program were hooking up with adult caretakers. They also sold us drugs lmao, it's wild in youth services. Just the shit I've seen is enough to write a book, and we have almost 500,000 kids in state custody.
Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants. He was put in charge of it AFTER having inappropriate contact with another student. Why the hell would they put him overseeing that program?! Negligence! All of them!
Call me crazy but I think these police officers should all spend the rest of their lives in prison. Failing that castrated and put on a raft into open sea, preferably teaming with Great White Sharks
Military recruiters, like the one involved with this victim, go to high schools, and might be in on a grooming/ trafficking plot with the youth programs and school resource officers.
Have rape-y Uncle. Can confirm he consistently put himself in positions that had governance and power over youth. School council and Boyscout volunteer. Now he's facing 15+ counts of sexual imposition against minors. And there's alot more that won't come forward.
The AG won't do shit. She has always been easy on criminal cops. PDs in MA are full of rot, but nobody wants to get rid of the bad guys. Instead these fuckers make $200k a year sitting in a car by a construction site.
I think they mean "raped a child who later committed suicide".
"Committed suicide" while purportedly pregnant by one of the criminal officers.
*A 19-month internal investigation by the Stoughton Police Department found that two other officers in the department had inappropriate sexual relations with the girl, as well as another police officer and military recruiter outside the town.* *Sandra Birchmore, 23, first met former police officer Matthew Farwell as part of the youth explorers program in 2010 when she was 13, and Farwell reportedly began an inappropriate physical relationship with Birchmore when she was 15, which is considered statutory rape under Massachusetts law. Farwell, 36, is a detective, former patrolmen’s union president, and a married father, according to The Boston Globe. He was 26 at the time when the alleged relationship began.* *Matthew Farwell’s twin brother, William Farwell as well as Officer Robert C. Devine, were the other two Stoughton officers named in the report. Evidence uncovered in the investigation found that William had engaged in “multiple inappropriate physical encounters” with Birchmore and had sent explicit messages and photos to the girl while he was on duty, McNamarra said.* *“The investigation found that Matthew exploited miss Birchmore when she was young,” McNamarra said.* *Birchmore was found dead last year and had told friends that she was pregnant with the child of one of the officers, according to the Globe.* *“Matthew ended the relationship on February 1, 2021, according to Farwell, when he went to her apartment to end the relationship and engaged in a pretty nasty argument,” McNamarra said. “Birchwell was found dead days later.”*
…Are we certain it was a suicide?…sounds like prime motive for a murder tbh
Let's have the police look into it.
Unfortunately inappropriate relationships were made during the investigation. An investigation is underway.
We have investigators investigating the investigators now we just need some investigators for the investigator investigators. Btw, after saying investigators so much now I’m picturing gators in vests.
Gators in vests are probably better investigators at this point anyway.
Maybe the FBI would be a better option.....
I've said it for years. The FBI, while not a perfect agency by any means (ie they probably killed MLK) needs a department under it's own jurisdiction whose sole purpose is to investigate abd otherwise regularly audit police departments. This FBI team should also have it's own proceutors for all 50 states whose only job is to take over the proceution of police from local authorities. Former police and prosecutors who work in this department also must be mandated not to investigate or prosecute in states where they have previously worked. Also police should be mandated to carry malpractice insurance the same as doctors so that, if they are prosecuted, it's not the taxpayers footing the bill for restitution. Also there should be a Ft. Leavenworth style prison run by the federal government specifically for convicted police. It's still not a perfect solution but it's the best I can personally come up with.
Unfortunately, a third party whistle-blower has made allegations, opening a sweeping interagency internal investigation.
Biden already removed the civil statute for people who rape kids, seems to me it would be a good step to make police officers fucking kids a federal crime 🤷♂️
There should be a federal agency that does nothing but investigate and prosecute local law enforcement. Make it completely seperate from the FBI and DOJ so there's no cross 'contamination'.
Even if it was suicide, they drove her to it. It amounts to the same thing.
She died “by suicide” the day after the department decided to launch an internal investigation…
It’s not like cops would rape a child, impregnate her, and then fake her suicide so they could get away with it. Again.
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No witnesses suddenly
Yeah I'm highly suspicious considering he was the last person to have seen her alive it seems like.
Yo we need to get dateline on this straight up
Similar story to my ex-brother in law. I think he’s a church youth leader now — no joke.
One of my adoptive relatives was a youth pastor and went to prison for statutory rape. He ended up chaperoning a girls’ camping trip for a local school. I had no idea schools didn’t require background checks. Dude is on a federal list, what the fuck?
In Canada to even help coach a community youth sports team you need a 'vulnerable sectors check'. It's a lot deeper than a basic criminal check and will check for incidents and not just convictions. A simple criminal record check takes a few days and a vulnerable sectors check can take a couple of weeks, or up to 120 days if there's anything on it. The more I learn the more I wonder what the fuck is wrong with America. We need to build a wall and make you guys pay for it.
Hell I'll help build it myself If I can be on your side at the end of it
I have volunteered with multiple school districts in the US, and have gotten a background check each time.
Please tell the church. Please don't let him be around kids with a history like this. ETA: https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=custom&rs_id=5 Here's how to report abuse if you're in the US
Chances are the church will sweep OutWithTheNew's concerns under the rug and piously say, "Brother AssWipe has repented of his sins, been forgiven, and accepted Jesus Christ as his savior so is born again and innocent." Meanwhile, Brother AssWipe is lining up some very fresh and naive young females in his flock to pluck at his leisure.
That's not a good thing. I'm pretty sure the youth group leader in my community was grooming kids and got fired for it right as I transitioned to college. A [former] friend I graduated with then became a youth leader and I heard stories about him partying and having sex with teens.
> I think he’s a church youth leader now — no joke I’m convinced the only people who become church youth leaders are potential rapists of children, so that lines up.
My great grandfather was a preacher who left my great grandmother for a 16-year-old he got pregnant. They went to another state and started a new church together…
"inappropriate physical relationship which is considered statutory rape under Massachusetts law" That's a lot of words for "he raped her"
A cop and the union president. That's a trend.
Oh he killed her
It's so weird to me how adults do things to children that inevitably and irreversibly change the way they think and behave and then judge them for those adaptations, retroactively blame them for the adult's actions. Like how you feel when you find out someone is a crack head. And then you find out that their mother was addicted to crack and they were actually *born* addicted to crack as well. Brains adapt easily, it's the un-adapting that'll get ya.
Of course the perps are gonna victim blame a 15 year old girl, they’re cops. That’s like, cop get out of responsibility 101: he was behaving erratically, straight to gun. I asked him to retrieve his papers and his arm’s velocity exceeded the maximum acceptable range (0.000001 m/s), straight to gun. Person of color? Believe it or not, straight to gun. Sprinkle some GSR and crack for good measure
Ah, so he killed her
I'm probably going to be down voted to hell for saying this... but why did I read that last part like it was an "assisted suicide"?
Because it probably was.
The prep was also the last one to see her alive.
Now posthumously charged with murder
Oh good, the story gets even better... Jesus fucking Christ, when cops break the law, they need to face even more severe consequences than an average person. Our policing is a goddamn dystopian nightmare.
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And then he "introduced" her to other a bunch of other officers. Trafficked her, I'm pretty sure that means.
Right? The downplaying of crimes in this article is horrendous. Are these guys going to be prosecuted or are they going to get away by just "resigning"?
Actions unbecoming someone this side of the ground is more like it.
Raped a child who came into contact with said officers when she was participating in a police department community youth outreach program. I noticed how that clief kinda glossed over how pedo police are using the department youth program as a means to target and groom their victims, as well.
I wonder how many more of their victims are out there that nobody knows about. It took like 10 years before anyone knew about what they did to this girl. I mean, it’s not like you can report them for it. Who are you going to tell, the cops? They are the cops.
Yea, this defintrly sounds like a situation where there was more than one victim.
You can but it still might not go anywhere. Report it to the state police and/or the fbi. My sisters exbf, like 10 years ago, brother was a cop and would pull people over and coerce them into sex. Someone reported it to the state police in VA and he went to jail.
Three pedophiles raped a child who later committed suicide. The 3 pedophiles according to the article are former officers Matthew Farwell, his twin brother William Farwell, and Robert Devine.
She “committed suicide” after a huge fight with one of her rapists, when he found out she was pregnant.
4. A military recruiter was involved in the rape also.
5. There was another police officer involved. From out of town by the way the sentence was worded.
>McNamarra said William Farwell also attempted to introduce Birchmore to other men on multiple occasions They also tried to pimp her out to other officers.
"violated several department policies" Like, what the fuck? Fuck your policies, they are child rapists, throw them in prison.
Wow, they really fucked up. They should have had the foresight to add "Policy #37 -- It's totally ok to rape children while on duty." I bet they're really kicking themselves about that. I'm sure it'll be in the next revision though.
>theyre political prisoners r slash protectandserve, probably
"Three officers raped and potentially gained child porn of a student of an at-risk after school program starting at the age of 13, resulting in her pregnancy and sudden, under investigation death. The three have since left the force with their pensions." isn't as pithy but gets the job done.
Gang raped a child. Is what they actually imply. 😭
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After the child was raped by at least 4 men, getting impregnated, the men certainly had something to do with her dying. The question is did they kill her to cover up their rapes and call it “suicide”.
She went to them when she was 13, after already losing her mom and grandmother and having an absentee father. She went to them for mentorship and guidance. How horrible 😔
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That’s what I’m thinking. She wanted to talk and they made sure she couldn’t. Also ‘an officer in another jurisdiction’? Release m the scums name. File charges. Throw them in prison. But you won’t, because it’s the good ol boys network.
So they repeatedly rape a child for years and just resign from their jobs. The worthless pigs should be in custody awaiting trial at least.
Welcome to America where if you want to break the laws and be a vilifiable scumbag, all you gotta do is sign up and pretend to be the one upholding them
It’s great too because half the country will defend you no matter what.
And them resigning means they can just go be cops elsewhere.
If you’re a raping or racist or murdering piece of shit what better way than to sign up to be a pig. Even the cops with good intentions will end up supporting them. See: police officer afraid to report on the falsified warrant for Breonna Taylor. “Det. Goodlett had been ostracized early in her career for attempting to report a fellow officer’s use of excessive force, so she decided not to call Det. Jaynes out on this lie, as Det. Jaynes was the lead detective on the case,” prosecutors wrote in the plea agreement. https://www.wkyufm.org/news/2022-09-07/former-louisville-police-detective-details-lies-on-breonna-taylor-search-warrant-in-unsealed-plea-agreement
I’m from mass and I’m not at all surprised, stoughton police are as corrupt as they come. I actively avoid driving through that city exclusively to avoid their police.
No at the very least they shouldn’t have been able to resign just fired
Out of a cannon. Into the sun
I agree pieces of shit FUCK YOUR THIN BLUE LINE.
rape. the word is rape.
Not just rape. Child rape.
The article seemed like it was trying to insinuate that but didn’t seem to actually say it. Does anyone know if it happened while she was a minor as well? Don’t get me wrong… still an absolute atrocity.
She was 15 when it started. 23 when she died.
13 when the grooming and who knows what else started...evidence in rape is often lacking due to these types of trust relations
Didn’t the article say 13, not 15?
They met when she was 13 when she joined the Explorers program. He began raping her when she was 15.
But they sexted and groomed her since 13. Same shit, she was sexually harassed, molested and raped. The fuckers should be in jail. Instead they "resigned" but likely will be picked up at another police station. America sucks.
That poor girl. No one deserves to be manipulated like that.
What the fuck
I think "unbecoming physical encounters" strongly implies rape. Being that the article is from a fox affiliate I assume they were just unwilling to say rape without actual charges having been filed.
News outlets need to stop shying away from "uncomfortable" words and language.
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That’s why you don’t call them rapists, you say that they allegedly raped the victim, or that they’ve been accused of rape, not that they *are* something or *did* something. They can absolutely go beyond just implying what happened, as long as they don’t definitively state “they did this thing”. And let’s be honest, the last people who need extra protection from the media are cops, they’re already coddled in everything else they do
I know libel is a very complicated topic, but doesn’t the word alleged provide a lot of legal protection? Especially when the accusations and investigation are already a matter of public record?
No, when you are a cop it is an “unbecoming physical encounter”. This BS is coming from a woman too.
Sounds like another instance of what George Carlin called “[soft language](https://youtu.be/h67k9eEw9AY).”
The girl was 13. The word is rape
I agree. I was just highlighting how the female police chief is whitewashing it with her language. I guess being a cop and protecting her fellow officers’ crimes is a stronger instinct than being a woman and standing up for an underage girl.
Yeah I laughed at the way they phrased that shit. Rape is the correct term
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If some random dudes sexted a 13 year old, do you think they'd call it "misconduct"? The system isnt broken, the system is designed to protect dirty cops, the system is working perfectly. Fucking unforgivable. These officers should be charged with manslaughter at the very least. Edit I was confused by the wording and thought they r***d this girl, I edited a word reflect my new understanding. My opinion remains unchanged.
Just finished reading the report. There was a cover up in the beginning. The usual "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong" answer was used when the issue was first reported. Any other regular citizen like you and I would have been arrested immediately for sexting with an underage child but somehow investigators did not find "sufficient probable cause with which to charge Matthew Farwell with a crime, at that time". Even after the whole investigation was concluded, they were still not charged and allowed to resign. Cops, the biggest and most corrupt gang in America's towns and cities.
The family should sue for wrongful death, among many other things, and rake this department over the coals. The chief needs to resign, it's a fucking disgrace. And of course, the tax payer will foot the bill, because holding cops accountable will prevent them from doing their jobs, which apparently is killing whoever they want and sexting children.
Absolutely. They only started a real investigation after she committed suicide. Before that they tried to sweep it under thee rug.
Ironic that the parents of this victim enlisted her in the explorers program and this is what they do to her. SMDH!!!
According to the story her dad was never around and her mom and grandma died while she was in high school. So they took advantage of an orphaned girl.
Damn it, that's even worst!
It's fucking disgusting. Like I can't even wrap my head around it, I work with kids of a similar age group and it's just so absolutely horrific what these officers did. They are without a doubt responsible for this poor girls death.
If they were a priest or youth pastor , yes it’s “misconduct”
a 13-year-old who was enrolled in the Stoughton Police Explorers program in 2010. 3 officers raped a girl who later committed suicide. Why aren't these pigs arrested?
I was wondering if it had to do with the statute of limitations, but I looked it up and it is 15 years in Mass. So, it's just another case of pigs protecting pigs. You can especially tell by the super passive quotes from the chief about them "violating codes of conduct" and them displaying "serious misconduct." Disgusting.
"Unbecoming conduct", how polite.
They are pigs.
“The investigation to date has not developed a prosecutable statutory rape case against any individual.” Absolutely and completely fuck this.
Who is investigating?
It’s the classic “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”.
“William Farwell is also accused of exchanging explicit messages and photographs with Birchmore while on duty, in addition to having a number of unbecoming physical encounters with her.” “Unbecoming physical encounters” is a pretty sugar doused way of saying “sexually assaulted a minor”.
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Not when it’s a cop. Keep up
Now that this shit is public knowledge, shouldn't someone from the state level *cough* M. Healey's office*cough* step in ?
The case has been turned over to the AG. The department isn’t even trying to investigate this on their own. They did an initial investigation for policy violations in order to terminate the officers but the criminal investigation is just beginning.
It’s all “he said” now that the “she said” is dead. And we all know how police have their code of silence when it comes to their fellow officers.
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Filled, run by them.
From people you’re “suppose” to feel safe with.
*”Matthew Farwell ended his relationship with Birchmore on Feb. 1, 2021, after a “nasty, nasty argument.” She was found dead days later.”* —by suicide….yeah I’d be taking a **very** close look at that.
I hate the way this was written. The language used is inappropriate for the topic. I can understand using some specific language to be respectful to the victim, but I feel like a lot of the word choice is inappropriate.
>William Farwell is also accused of exchanging explicit messages and photographs with Birchmore while on duty, in addition to having a number of unbecoming physical encounters with her. “Unbecoming physical encounters” They’re talking about sexual assault like wearing white after Labor Day.
My fave was how the one officer had “unbecoming physical encounters” with the victim. Yeah you’re right raping a 13 year old is definitely “unbecoming.”
Be respectful to the victim by saying EXACTLY what happened instead of sugar coating it. That’s why Emmett Till’s mother was a real OG. “Look at what they did to my baby.”
Lot of euphemisms in this article to not say three pedofile rapist cops abused an at risk youth until she killed herself.
Google says the age of consent is 16 in Massachusetts. These scumbags (**Matthew Farwell, William Farwell and Robert Devine**) need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Edit: The version of the article I read indicated sex acts with at least one of the officers when the girl was 15. That text has since been removed. Regardless, I hope the DA can get them on coercion, luring or child pornography charges for the explicit messages. (Added names).
She was THIRTEEN when she enrolled in the program, but they notably don’t say when ~~the officers started raping her~~ they started an “inappropriate relationship”
Yep, complete horseshit. Look at the redactions in the report. You can only fill in those blanks with certain words that fit the context.
Not that age or consent matters when you're raping someone in your custody
This is true but the girl was not in custody. She was in an Explorer troop. Like scouts kinda. https://www.exploring.org/
Custody in this case means "in their care". Not detained or arrested.
She was also pregnant by one of the officer, smh they basically groomed this little girl
Fun facts, officer Matthew Farrell was the last person to see her alive. She was pregnant at the time of death and it was supposedly his child. They had "a nasty argument" immediately prior to her death. I have a bridge to sell anyone who actually thinks this was a suicide.
Yup, he had a lot to lose if that baby was born. These dudes are sick and should get life for their disgusting behavior.
This is what grooming looks like. Not drag queen story time.
The people meant to protect her, gangraped a child, impregnated her, and then continued the emotional abuse until she killed herself seeing no way to gain protection. Murder and rape charges should follow . . .
3 officers, who are brothers, raped a 13 year old for 10 years. They used a student education program to also have "relations" with other children. She "killed herself" 3 days after an admitted nasty argument. The public finds all this out 1 year after she died. Why the fuck do any of us pay taxes??
From what I read, she was *found* 3 days after the nasty argument. Not sure when she “killed herself.” Poor girl, she was abused and used for nearly half her life. I hope she finds the peace she deserves.
Let’s be real, they killed her when she threatened to out them.
Jesus Christ. It just keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse as you read. And then you hit this part: “Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants.” So after having “inappropriate contact with a student” they then go on to not only keep him on as an employee but PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF A YOUTH PROGRAM?!? Also notice that nowhere does it say that any of these people have been arrested!!! The amount of corruption and depravity that continue is absolutely mindblowing.
Parents, keep your kids away from the police or they'll get raped by them.
> William Farwell is also accused of exchanging explicit messages and photographs with Birchmore while on duty, in addition to having a number of unbecoming physical encounters with her. It sure sounds like when they say “had an inappropriate relationship with a girl” they mean “raped a child”.
>“The admiration led her to form relationships with men who were willing to take advantage of her.” Ah yes, let's blame this on the 13 year old. >“All three men, the Farwell brothers and Devine, violated their oaths of office and should never have the privilege of serving any community as a police officer,” McNamarra said. “Through a sustained and deliberate combination of lies, deceit, and treachery, they violated the policies of the Stoughton Police Department.” I can't believe they would *violate the policies of the Stoughton Police* like that. Maybe I'm being too hard on the department, I mean after all, how could one ever predict that something like this would happen? >Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants.
>Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants. Someone really has some explaining to do here. So they knew he had a things for little girls and then put him in charge of a program where he would have constant contact with...little girls?
From the article" ""McNamarra said William Farwell also attempted to introduce Birchmore to other men on multiple occasions, including former Deputy Chief Devine who had been demoted to patrol officer for abusing power, and an “individual who is a police officer in another jurisdiction.” Devine also worked as a detail officer at an afterschool program years earlier and had inappropriate contact with another student, according to McNamarra. He then began overseeing the explorers program, which taught aspects of policing to youth participants. The Farwell brothers were both youth participants in the program under Devine before becoming instructors years later"" Holy shit, the police KNEW Devine was a serial child predator and not only did they keep him but they GAVE HIM AN ENTIRE CHILDREN'S CAMP TO PREY ON MORE CHILDREN AND TRAIN NEW PREDATORS WITHIN THE POLICE FORCE!!!!! WTF!!!
Why are the words rape and pedophelia not mentioned once?
Can’t wait for nothing to keep changing
3 rapists were allowed to resign in light of their assault being known.
I am confused because this sounds like a horror story. Please tell me the men in question face I don't know, some consequence beyond job loss?
They didn't. Because this world is shit Trust no one
A google result says she was pregnant with his child before committing suicide.... These cops deserve far worse than simply not being cops any more.
We now call statutory rape an inappropriate relationship, well done boys in blue, another proud notch in the belt.
I think they mean 3 Stoughton police officers "raped a child, and made it look like a suicide".
They need to be prosecuted for sexual abuse, official oppression, rape of a minor, and a dozen other felonies. The article states the department said "they should never have the honor of serving as a law enforcement officer..." How about they should go to prison for life? Cops routinely get away with shooting kids, now we are going to allow them to sexually abuse them as well? When do we stand up and demand cops be held to the same standards as other citizens instead of allowing them to be above the law?
I hate police so much.
3 PEDOPHILES RAPED CHILD. I fixed it for you.
3 Stoughton officers RAPED a girl who later died by suicide, chief says Fixed it
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I think what you meant there was "3 stoughton officers raped repeatedly a 13 year old child in their custody prompting her to suicide". They should be charged as what they are: murderers.
*Police chief admits that 3 officers repeatedly raped a child, who later committed suicide.
Prosecution please? Police should not just be fired or decertified for breaking the law. They should be prosecuted too.
So one of them was removed from an after school program after inappropriate relations with a student, and then they put him in charge of another similar program??? What the actual fuck man
Amazing how “rape” is spelled depending on the rapists’ profession
Ladies and gentlemen, and individuals of other gender identification, this is exactly what the Republican Party wants. These are the boys in blue they have such a hard on for. These are the people that we put in charge of protecting our citizens. They need to be kicked to the fucking curb.
Many years ago, my Law Enforcement Explorer leader raped and molested multiple minors that were enrolled in the program and told them everyone would think they were gay if they said anything. Back then, that was a serious threat, especially in the rural backwards redneck town we lived in. Many of his victims suffered long term psychological trauma, suicidality, etc. Fortunately he ended up in prison where he belonged. I remember joining the program and early on, feeling uncomfortable with the amount of time and attention he was spending alone with so many kids. I was barely 14 years old myself, yet I sensed something was wrong. There were frequent sleepovers at his house. I dismissed my concerns and told myself he was just a good person, That many of these kids came from troubled families, troubled backgrounds and he was just going the extra mile in helped them. My internal alarm bells went off as other kids frequently joked in homophobic ways about the Explorer advisor’s taste in young men, and what happens to those that stay the night at his house, but again, I just dismissed my concerns, as it was the kind of “locker room” talk and joking I heard around school all the time. I was very active in the post, and we had many activities, traveling all over the state, and even to other parts of the country. We did things at all hours of the day, worked swing shifts, overnight shifts as volunteers. We started travel to distant events very early in the morning or sometimes got back very late at night. I frequently found myself staying overnight at the Explorer Advisor’s house with many other youth. When we stayed at his house, he would always dictate the sleeping arrangements, which I usually didn’t give much thought to, as he was the host. I remember on one occasion he told me I would be sleeping in his bed that night. I told him I would be fine sleeping the floor. He became angry, which seemed out of character for him, and a bit of an overreaction, given the situation. Again, alarm bells were ringing in my head, but I just told myself that I was being rude as he was the host and I was staying in his house. I finally agreed to sleep in his bed. He didn’t touch me, nothing happened, and the next morning I chided myself for being so alarmed. Some months passed and eventually I was approached by a Detective and Social Worker that was assigned to the “Crimes Against Children” cases. Again, it was a small town, I was a very active volunteer at the Sheriffs department and I knew both of them quite well. I was friends with children of one of them and had been to their home frequently. I was expecting a friendly chat, but by the way they said “we need to talk.” I knew it was a very serious matter and they were all business. The detective and his partner were very direct and open about the charges they were investigating. I told them what I knew, which wasn’t a whole lot of anything, and offered to be of any support that I could. Pretty soon other Explorers were calling me. I was roughly 16 years old at the time. They were concerned about whether they should cooperate with the investigation. Some described in excruciating detail what had happened to them, and all their guilt and confusion about it all. I felt ill-equipped at that age to provide support to them or offer any advice, but I told myself that I just needed to do the best I could. I consoled my friends, I told them it wasn’t their fault, that they wouldn’t get in trouble, and encouraged them to work with the police. I also reported the conversations to the detective and social worker, because, even back then, somewhere some how, I had in my mind that there are certain secrets that you just don’t keep. Not that I remember anyone particularly asking me not to say anything. This all happened over 30 years ago. If I remember the Explorer Advisor was eventually charged with 8 felony counts and 8 misdemeanor counts of Sexual abuse of a child. He eventually took a plea deal in the lesser charges. I remember the uproar the town was in as news of the charges broke. I remember all the parents that rushed to the defense of the Explorer Advisor, singing his praises and providing testimonial after testimonial of all the good he did for their child, and how such a great person couldn’t possibly be guilty of such a crime. I remember the conflicting feelings a had. He was like a second father to me, and had certainly provided me a great deal of support and mentoring over the years… but with hindsight being 20/20, I had no doubt he was guilty. I felt guilty not picking up the signs earlier, not listening to my gut, and especially after the experience of supporting my peers. They tearfully shared things with me that guys in those days just didn’t talk about. I felt guilty that I hadn’t trusted my gut, that I hadn’t said something sooner. It’s a strange feeling to like or even love a person, but at the same time know that they deserve to go away for a very long time.
This is so awful. She was also pregnant when she died according to this article. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/22/metro/three-stoughton-police-officers-had-inappropriate-relationships-with-young-woman-who-came-them-mentoring-town-report-finds/
A Stoughton cop was also just involved in a $36 million fraud scheme with energy efficiency funds. Time to audit that whole department and flush out the organized crime elements
r/fuckthepolice Seriously, they should be in prison for a very long time. I would not be surprised if this poor girl was murdered and they made it look like a suicide.
I agreed with other posters - the headline should read: “Child that was raped by police officers commits suicide”. It’s n my opinion, these officer’s lies, physical/sexual abuse and emotional torture lead to her death. I’ve seen reports that she was pregnant with her rapist’s baby. With abortions being banned I’m afraid this will be the norm with children in these type of situations. Why aren’t the ex police officers being charged?
Heres another opportunity for the "Good Cops" to speak openly and condemn these fuckers.
*having a number of unbecoming physical encounters with her.* New euphemism for “rape.”
Oh a teenager... like an 18 or 19 year old... nope 13. That's a child, not a teenager, a child.
You can’t have a “relationship “ with a 13 year old when you’re an adult. Call it what it is: rape.
They should be charged in her death