A Boston Public Schools official was arraigned in court Monday on aggravated rape charges after authorities say he raped a child who previously attended his school.
Manuel Mendes, 38, of Hyde Park, who is the dean of students at the James P. Timilty Middle School in Roxbury, was arrested Friday on a warrant charging him with four counts of aggravated rape of a child under the age of 16, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s office.
Mendes was arraigned Monday in the West Roxbury Division of the Boston Municipal Court.
A statement provided to the Boston Herald from the Boston Public Schools said officials learned on Friday that a staff member was arrested on “deeply troubling charges.”
The statement did not name the staff member but said that person is now on paid administrative leave.
Prosecutor Amanda Paull said in court that Mendes knew the victim as a former student of the Timilty Middle School.
“The victim took part in a forensic interview last month and disclosed multiple assaults by Mr. Mendes beginning in February 2020 and continuing until the summer,” the district attorney’s office said. “Digital evidence, including text messages, related to the allegations were recovered during the course of investigation.”
Bail was set at $35,000 for Mendes. A judge also ordered he stay away from and have no contact with the victim and witnesses in the case, stay away from the Timilty Middle School, have no contact with past or present students of the school, have no unsupervised contact with any child under age 16, surrender his passport, and submit to GPS monitoring in the event he is to be released on bail.
“This is the ultimate betrayal of a child’s trust,” District Attorney Rachael Rollins said. “As an educator and school official, Mr. Mendes had a duty to provide a safe and supportive environment for this young person to learn and grow. Instead, he allegedly used his position of trust and authority to prey on the victim.”
Rollins’ office noted that prosecutors were unable to request that Mendes be held based on dangerousness because he is not charged with an offense that would make him eligible under the statute.
“Despite the egregious nature of the charges against Mr. Mendes, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the offense of statutory rape of a child does not involve the predicate level of force or threat of force necessary to qualify under the dangerousness statute,” Rollins’ office said. “DA Rollins has repeatedly made clear that she hopes to work with the Legislature to change that.”
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