A former Massachusetts deputy police chief is being charged with the rape of a child that occurred when he was a school resource officer nearly 20 years ago. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s office announced Monday that former Hopkinton Deputy Chief of Police, John “Jay” Porter, 54, has been indicted on three charges of rape of a child. Authorities say Porter allegedly assaulted a student while he was assigned as a school resource officer in the Town of Hopkinton school system in 2004 and 2005, when the victim was a 15-year-old student. It’s unclear if Porter is being represented by an attorney. An arraignment has not yet been scheduled.
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Family sues after loved one’s corpse falls out of casket
A Massachusetts family whose loved one’s casket fell open as it was being lowered into a grave, causing the body to fall out, has sued the funeral home and the cemetery. The Eagle-Tribune reports that the family of Andrew Serrano, a resident of Lawrence who died in March 2019, allege negligence and reckless infliction of emotional distress in the suit filed last week. The suit says during the funeral handled by the Perez Funeral Home at city-owned Bellevue Cemetery in Lawrence in April 2019, the body fell out of the casket in front of distraught relatives. Messages were left with the funeral home and the city.
