January 22, 2016

Quincy, Massachusetts Gentleman Arrested, Charged With Online Impersonating Women, Soliciting Rape and Home Invasions



Photo: Angela Rowlings
ARRAIGNED: Thomas M. Sheehan pleaded not guilty yesterday in Haverhill District Court to charges including soliciting rape and soliciting kidnapping.


[From article]
Investigators say a former limo driver is suspected of posting the names, photographs and addresses of “numerous” unsuspecting women on an adult website, and, posing as them, inviting men to break into their homes and rape and torture them.
Thomas M. Sheehan, 45, of Quincy, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Haverhill District Court to charges of soliciting rape, soliciting kidnapping and soliciting assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection with one of the cases. Thomas Ralph, Attorney General Maura Healey’s chief of cybercrime prosecutions, said Sheehan not only put up pictures of a Groveland woman on the adult website, but her two juvenile daughters, as well.
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Patten set bail at $15,000 cash and ordered that if Sheehan posts it, he be on GPS monitoring and 24-hour lockdown at home. He is also forbidden from using computers or the Internet, or from having any contact with children.
Sheehan’s attorney, Michael J. Baldassarre, protested. “I would purport to the court that it was role-play fantasy only,” he said, “not meant to be acted upon.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/01/investigators_man_posed_as_women_invited_rape_torture

Investigators: Man posed as women, invited rape, torture
Laurel J. Sweet
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

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