Man sentenced to 38 to 40 years in prison in child sex caseWill serve 38 to 40 years, had sex with girls ages 9 and 10
By Jim Pattenjpatten@eagletribune.com
LAWRENCE — A man charged with videotaping himself having sex with two girls ages 8 and 9, pleaded guilty to 14 indictments yesterday and was sentenced to 38 to 40 years in prison, followed by lifetime community parole.
James Raboin, 44, formerly of 219 E. Haverhill St., had been held on $50,000 cash bail since turning himself in on May 1, 2006.
Raboin was charged with four counts of rape of a child.
Raboin's illegal activities were discovered after an April 24, 2006, burglary at his apartment. Nearly $3,500 worth of video production equipment and a small safe were taken in the break.
The safe contained 21 DVDs and videocassettes, at least one of which showed Raboin with the underage girls. One of the victims appeared in only one of the videos, while the second appeared in more than one video, police said.
There were three suspects in the burglary, all juveniles, and when the mother of one of them realized what was on the DVDs, she recruited someone unconnected to the break to turn them over to investigators, police said.
Court documents showed the rapes and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 occurred on various dates between January 1998 and April 2005.
Lawrence Superior Court Judge David Lowy sentenced Raboin to concurrent sentences of 25 years each on two of the counts, and 10 years of probation on the remaining two counts.
On three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, Raboin was sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison, that sentence to run from and after the 25 year sentence.
On two counts of posing a child in a state of nudity he was sentenced to 10 years to 10 years and a day in prison, that sentence to run from and after the eight to 10-year sentence on the indecent assault and battery charge.
He was sentenced to 10 years to 10 years and a day on a charge of administering a drug to a minor, that sentence to run concurrent with the charges of posing a child in a state of nudity.
On the four remaining counts of posing a child in a state of nudity, he was placed on 10 years of probation from and after his committed sentences.
"When he gets out after 38-40 years, he'll be on 10 years' probation after that," said Stephen O'Connell, spokesman for the Essex district attorney's office.
Upon his release from prison, Raboin will be on lifetime community parole, requiring him to wear a GPS bracelet, stay away from all children under 16, stay away from the victims in the case, and to undergo sex offender counseling.
Assistant District Attorney Jessica Connors prosecuted the case and Michael Phelan was defense counsel, O'Connell said.
Lawrence Detective Lt. Mary Bartlett led the investigation.
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