City man guilty of raping boy

The Eagle Tribune
City man guilty of raping boy

January 29, 2010

By Jim Patten
jpatten@eagletribune.com

HAVERHILL — A man accused of molesting a 12-year-old boy for nearly a year will spend five to eight years in state prison.
Jeffrey Perry, 39, of 99 Emerson St., received the sentence yesterday in Salem Superior Court after pleading guilty. His prison term will be followed by three years of supervised probation upon his release, according to the sentence.
Perry also was ordered to comply with the requirements of the state Sex Offender Registry Board, complete sex offender treatment, have no contact with the victim, no unsupervised contact with any child under 16, and be subject to GPS monitoring.
The plea, agreed upon by the prosecution and defense, was done to prevent any further trauma the victim would have suffered by having to take the stand at trial, said Steve O'Connell, spokesman for the district attorney's office.
Perry pleaded guilty to a total of 12 charges during the hearing before Judge David Lowy.
They included eight counts of indecent assault and battery, one count of disseminating pornography to a minor, and three counts of rape of a child.
Perry was arrested Aug. 10 while Detective Carl Rogers and state police Detective Sgt. Paul Zipper were investigating an Aug. 9 arson fire in the apartment of Patricia Mandigo, 55, of 99 Emerson St.
Perry and his elderly mother had been staying in a bedroom at Mandigo's apartment, and when Rogers and Zipper returned there on Aug. 10 to continue their investigation, they encountered Perry and the boy.
While they were interviewing them, the officers quickly realized the two were sharing a bed, police said. The boy is known to Mandigo, police said.
The officers said that when they questioned Perry later at the police station, he admitted to molesting the boy. They called in Detective Andrea Fogarty, who was able to speak with the boy, police said. The boy confirmed what Perry told Rogers and Zipper, and Perry was then arrested, police said.
At the time of his arrest, police described Perry as a classic sexual predator who bought the victim gifts to gain his trust before luring him into sexual acts.
Perry told police the sexual activity began in September 2008 while he was living in Lawrence, and continued when he moved to Haverhill and until his arrest in August of last year.
Police said at the time of the arrest that Perry was a convicted Level 1 sex offender.
Assistant District Attorney Kate MacDougall prosecuted the case. Perry was represented by Amanda Barker from the state's Committee for Public Counsel Services.
When Rogers and Zipper discovered the relationship between Perry and the boy, they were in the middle of investigating three fires that had been set in and around Mandigo's apartment the day before.
That investigation led them to charge her with eight counts of arson of a dwelling, which included a fire in her apartment at 94 Emerson St., where she had been living the previous December. The fire destroyed the building.
Mandigo continues to be held without bail and is awaiting trial on arson charges.

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