Chelsea School Committee member and former youth mentor charged with enticing 12-year-old into car and raping him

Henry Wilson, 56, of Chelsea, was arraigned contiguous connected charges of rape of a kid aggravated by an property quality of astatine slightest 10 years and enticement of a child, the Suffolk County District Attorney's bureau reports.

According to the DA's office:

During a forensic interrogation astatine the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County, the unfortunate disclosed that, connected June 28, 2021, helium was walking successful the country of Broadway successful Chelsea erstwhile an big antheral offered him a thrust successful his car. The antheral drove him to a parking batch and sexually assaulted the kid successful the car. Parts of the intersexual battle were captured connected compartment telephone camera.

A Chelsea District Court justice acceptable bail astatine $50,000 and ordered Wilson to enactment distant from the unfortunate and his family, person nary unsupervised interaction with immoderate children nether 18, bash nary unpaid oregon paid enactment with children, deterioration a GPS instrumentality and manus implicit his passport.

Wilson was elected to the School Committee from District 5 successful 2019, aft presumption connected the metropolis Planning Board and Zoning Board and aft having tally for the City Council successful 2017. He besides served arsenic "a younker mentor with CPS students," according to his bio connected the School Committee Web site. Also helium was a subordinate of the summertime younker jobs programme astatine the Chelsea collaborative.

Innocent, etc.