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Probation officer charged with rape dead in car crash
By adamg on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 8:01am
Not long after news broke of his rape indictment, Dorchester Municipal Court probation officer William Averill died when his SUV plowed into a bridge abutment in Randolph, WCVB reports.
State Police report:
Preliminary investigation by Trooper Joseph Durning of the Milton State Police Barracks indicates that a 50-year-old man from West Roxbury was traveling on Route 28 southbound under Route 93 when his vehicle left the roadway, traveled onto the sidewalk, and struck a bridge abutment. The operator was transported to Milton Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
Averill had been scheduled for arraignment today on several rape charges for an incident on Jan. 5 involving a woman who reported to his office as part of her probation. Authorities charged Averill raped the woman.
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Comments
Jesus. That's on my route
Jesus. That's on my route between my neighborhood and my parents'. Not an easy way to go.
I was pretty quick to condemn the PO in my mind when I heard of what was charged with. Still, I wish he had defense counsel that could have convinced him it literally wasn't the end times.
Yes, he committed a horrific crime, even worse, committed and facilitated by a position of privilege, trust, and oversight of the less powerful someone, under judicial supervision. But I can't say he or anyone else ever deserves this. Others may disagree, based on experience. I would respect that.
Additional PS for all you bastards below: YOU ALL KNOW HE DID IT. Why else kill himself? I put myself in those shoes. If I were innocent, I would fight like hell. If I did do it, as an officer of the court, and my public shame were revealed, I would do exactly what he did. So saying the pressure of the accusation made him do it...life is full of pressures, and some people can't take it. An officer should be able to shoulder the burden and take it. As someone whose life is full of different types of officers, both current and former, I'm pretty certain they can. If you feel so sorry for him, maybe you should change your rapey thoughts, so you don't feel so much solidarity with a probable rapist who worked under the official color of the law.
This is common
Charges of a sex crime, we automatically assume the person is guilty. Because of the presumption of guilt by everyone, the person's life is pretty much over at that point that charges are publicized, even if they are actually innocent.
The way our society perceives charges is not fully compatible with the way or justice system works.
Quelle horreur
Won't someone think of the poor parole officer, whose only crime was taking advantage of his position to sexually assault someone whose freedom from imprisonment lay solely in his own hands?
Oh, wait, everyone will think of him, and make faux-intellectual declarations about compatibility with the justice system to pretend like they have some sort of cogent basis for automatically dismissing any woman who ever comes forward with rape charges.
Rape apologists are goddamn sickening.
Now you just did it
You assumed he's guilty. Before he was even arraigned.
I think the important question is not whether we destroy guilty people, but whether we destroy innocent people.
So everyone who is arrested is guilty?
I don't know if this guy is guilty or not But I do know that some people who are arrested are not guilty and falsely charged. That's why we have courts, judges, and juries.
It's important to mention that this is in the constitution and supported by laws.
Your comment is ignorant and anti -American.
I don't care if it's rape, murder, or petty shoplifting.
Either we treat the accused as innocent until proven guilty, or we don't.
You have published an unqualified statement that this guy was guilty as charged.
How come the post with this un-American viewpoint
has 10 times the upvotes of the preceding post?
This is a very important matter of American civics.
Allegedly
well that's a suicide
And I read that headline as Probation Officer Raped Dead People After Car Crash.
Apparently I didn't have enough coffee this morning
Reddit cross-pollenation
I'd recognize that upboat ratio on serious-topic joke anywhere.
upboat
I had to look that up to see what 'upboat' meant, and I still don't understand.
Apparently it means something about a circle jerk on Reddit, an event in which to participate I would be anatomically unqualified.
My main point was, that to me, the 'accident' looked like a suicide.
My headline interpretation was an afterthought. I mis-read headlines constantly.
This city has no clue what
This city has no clue what really goes on with law enforcement and public officials. I have seen so much corruption and even in the court system people getting away with stuff because of their relation to another. What a joke! This is as bad as Chicago and Connecticut.