09-18-2010, 09:22 AM
In September 1990, Goodwin pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated rape and to kidnapping in connection with the rape of the 7-year-old boy, whom Goodwin had abducted during a game of hide-and-seek at the Portuguese-American Civic Club in Lowell. Goodwin was 27 when he was convicted.
The child and his parents had gone to the club earlier that year to socialize. Goodwin separated the boy from his parents and a playmate and carried him outside, according to prosecutors, threatening to kill him if he cried out. He took the boy to an area under a bridge and sexually assaulted him, then took him to a house and assaulted him again.
Goodwin kept the boy in the cellar overnight and sexually assaulted him the following morning, prosecutors said. He then carried him outside in a large cardboard box, deposited him on a street corner, and called a taxi to drive the boy home.
Superior Court Judge Patti B. Saris, now a federal judge, sentenced Goodwin to two concurrent terms of 10 to 15 years in prison for two of the rapes and nine to 10 years concurrently for the kidnapping. She imposed a prison sentence of 30 to 40 years for the third rape but suspended it, ordering that it be imposed if he reoffended.
Goodwin spent 15 years in prison and in 2005 was civilly committed to the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater after he was found to be sexually dangerous. He was released in June 2009 after a jury concluded he was no longer dangerous.
TELL THAT TO THE NEXT VICTIM! IF THE VICTIM SURVIVES. that should have been a life sentence on the kidnapping alone. it used to be a Federal death penalty crime.
The child and his parents had gone to the club earlier that year to socialize. Goodwin separated the boy from his parents and a playmate and carried him outside, according to prosecutors, threatening to kill him if he cried out. He took the boy to an area under a bridge and sexually assaulted him, then took him to a house and assaulted him again.
Goodwin kept the boy in the cellar overnight and sexually assaulted him the following morning, prosecutors said. He then carried him outside in a large cardboard box, deposited him on a street corner, and called a taxi to drive the boy home.
Superior Court Judge Patti B. Saris, now a federal judge, sentenced Goodwin to two concurrent terms of 10 to 15 years in prison for two of the rapes and nine to 10 years concurrently for the kidnapping. She imposed a prison sentence of 30 to 40 years for the third rape but suspended it, ordering that it be imposed if he reoffended.
Goodwin spent 15 years in prison and in 2005 was civilly committed to the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater after he was found to be sexually dangerous. He was released in June 2009 after a jury concluded he was no longer dangerous.
TELL THAT TO THE NEXT VICTIM! IF THE VICTIM SURVIVES. that should have been a life sentence on the kidnapping alone. it used to be a Federal death penalty crime.