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Ex-Transit Officer Guilty Of Raping 2 Women As Payment For 'Joy Ride': DA
A jury convicted a former MBTA transit police officer on Friday, March 15, of raping two women more than a decade ago, authorities said.
Shawn McCarthy, 50, who lived in Wilmington at the time of the rapes, will be sentenced on three counts of rape stemming from an incident in 2012, the Suffolk County District Attorney said.
The attack happened on July 6, 2012, near the area of the Museum of Science in Boston.
Two intoxicated women in their early 20s approached McCarthy outside the Aquarium subway station and asked him for a ride in his patrol cruiser, the prosecutor…
