Articles Posted in Indecent Assault and Battery on a Person Aged Fourteen or Older

On November 24, 2019, our client who lives in another state was visiting friends in Massachusetts and attending a hockey game. The group went to a bar. The defendant became intoxicated and inappropriately touched a cocktail waitress. She immediately complained and our client was confronted by security. The establishment checked with security footage and quickly…

The defendant is a well known physician. He was treating a patient who claimed that he inappropriately touched her buttocks and breast. As a result he was charged with indecent assault and battery under G.L. c. 265 section 13H. These charges were brought notwithstanding the fact that our client has a protocol that he regularly…

The defendant is a non-citizen restaurant owner in Massachusetts. The complainant worked at the restaurant for many years. About fifteen months ago the complainant went to the police station to report a series of sexual assaults alleged to have been committed against her by the owner. The police department conducted a very poor, limited investigation…

The defendant is charged with indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen in violation of G.L. c. 265 Section 13B. This incident is alleged to have occurred twelve years ago when the victim was very young. She is now sixteen years old and has emotional and cognitive disabilities. As such,…

The defendant is an accountant working at a well known international accounting firm. Several weeks ago he was at a nightclub with some friends. A women in the club approached the bouncers and complained that while waiting in a line for the bathroom a man reached up her skirt and touched her genitalia with his…

On December 25, 2017 Cambridge Police responded to a posh hotel for a report of a sexual offense. They met with a woman who worked with the housekeeping staff at the hotel. She stated that while cleaning a room the defendant approached her and touched her name tag which was over her breast. He then…

The defendant is a college student who needs four credits to graduate. To pay for school he would drive for Lyft. On August 26, 2017 the Lowell, Massachusetts police department was called for a complaint of a sexual assault. The complainant was a woman who had been at a bar for the evening. She called…

On March 26, 2018 a woman contacted the police frantically complaining of having just been sexually assaulted. She claimed that a man grabbed her arms and breasts. After calming down the woman explained that around midnight she had given a homeless man she knows a coffee. The defendant was walking by at the time. Thinking…

The defendant works as a civilian on an air base in the Middle East. He served honorably in the United States Armed Forces. Several years ago he attended a party hosted by the victim. Several people drank to excess, among them the defendant and the victim. The defendant spent the night at the victim’s home.…

In the summer of 2014 a woman left two of her three children with her aunt and uncle while she went on vacation with her boyfriend and toddler. She returned a week later and picked the children up at the aunt’s home. She soon after heard that her eleven year old daughter who had been…