COMMONWEALTH v. FREITAS

No. 02-P-38.

59 Mass. App. Ct. 903 (2003)

COMMONWEALTH v. JANUARO FREITAS.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts.

August 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne R. Murphy for the defendant.

David Leibowitz, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.


Januaro Freitas was convicted by a jury, sitting in Superior Court, of multiple sexual assaults on a ten year old child, whom we shall call Carla. Specifically, the jury found by its verdicts that the defendant had placed his penis in the vagina and anus of Carla; had attempted to compel an act of fellatio; had improperly touched her vagina; and had compelled her to place her hand on his penis. As recounted by the young complainant, these events occurred in the morning after...

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