Former Dearborn Middle School dean charged with child rape

A erstwhile BPS authoritative present surviving successful South Carolina was arraigned successful Suffolk Superior Court yesterday connected 3 counts of aggravated rape of a kid and charges of posing a kid successful a authorities of nudity, possession of kid intersexual maltreatment materials and dissemination of materials harmful to a minor, the Suffolk County District Attorney's bureau reports.

Michael McDonald, 40, allegedly groomed a lad to get him acceptable for enactment and for posing for nude photos.

In summation to the Dearborn School successful Roxbury, present the Dearborn STEM Academy, McDonald besides worked astatine the Lila Frederick Pilot Middle School and the Condon School, arsenic good arsenic with younker programs astatine Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Boston, College for Every Student, The Trust Project and Straight Ahead Ministries, the DA's bureau says.

Judge Michael Doolin released McDonald connected his ain recognizance due to the fact that McDonald's willingness to travel backmost to Boston to look charges connected his ain indicated his readiness to marque his tribunal appearances, the DA's bureau reports. He was ordered to enactment distant from children and to surrender his passport.

According to the DA's office:

The subsister of the abuse, who is present an adult, met Mr. McDonald done his capableness arsenic Dean of Students astatine the Dearborn Middle School. He ran a school-based programme called “Live Brothers” and founded and operated a backstage programme for antheral younker called “Family for Life.” Though the unfortunate was excessively young to instrumentality portion successful the programs astatine the time, Mr. McDonald ingratiated himself to the victim’s household successful bid to summation their spot and unafraid entree to the victim. He aboriginal became a mentor to the unfortunate and utilized this presumption of powerfulness and spot to groom the unfortunate – past a kid - for abuse. The intersexual assaults began successful 2013 erstwhile the younker was lone 15 years old. This behaviour continued for a fig of years. Massachusetts law, however, does not criminalize rape of a kid erstwhile they crook 16, contempt their continued vulnerability to coercive acts by adults successful positions of authority. As a result, prosecutors are lone capable to prosecute charges for aggravated statutory rape that occurred anterior to the victim’s 16th birthday. ...

Mr. McDonald is besides accused of photographing the unfortunate successful the nude and keeping those images. He additionally sent the unfortunate a nude photograph of himself.

In a statement, DA Rachael Rollins said:

The victim’s household thought they were getting a mentor and relation exemplary for their loved one. Instead, they got Michael McDonald, a grown antheral present accused of utilizing his presumption of spot to prey connected a child. I;m truthful arrogant of the subsister successful this lawsuit for coming guardant to stock his truth, contempt the symptom and trauma disclosure tin sometimes make for survivors. There should beryllium nary shame associated with being targeted, groomed and violated. This young antheral did thing wrong.

Rollins has fought for authorities to "make it a transgression for adults successful positions of authorization oregon spot to prosecute successful intersexual relations with immoderate insignificant nether their supervision oregon attraction up to the property of 18. Positions of spot and authorization see those of educators, caretakers, household members, coaches, clergy members and others who enactment with youth."

Innocent, etc.