Redacted copies of an internal affairs investigation into a former Boston police officer and union boss accused of sexually abusing multiple children in the mid-1990s will be released on Friday, the mayor’s office said.
Mayor Kim Janey had announced earlier this week that the information would be released, saying she was puzzled by the case of Patrick Rose Sr., a now-retired officer and former president of the Boston Police Patrol Association.
The Boston Police Department in 1995 filed a criminal complaint against Rose for sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy, reported the Boston Globe on Sunday. The criminal complaint was eventually dropped, but an internal investigation concluded that Rose likely committed a crime.
Mayor Kim Janey announced several measures including a review of the case of the former Boston police officer accused of sexually abusing a minor.
He was allowed to remain in the force and was often sent to respond to cases involving children. Rose was indicted last August when a father and his teenage daughter reported that the girl had been repeatedly abused by Rose from ages 7 to 12. Within weeks, five more people came forward to accuse Rose of abusing them as children.
“As mayor, people like Patrick Rose will not be protected under my supervision and those who are complicit in abuses of power will be held accountable,” Janey said Tuesday.
Rose has pleaded not guilty to 33 total charges involving six alleged victims and is being held on a $ 200,000 cash bond.
Rose’s attorney, William J. Keefe, has said that Rose “maintains her innocence of all charges that have been brought against her and maintains her innocence of what allegedly happened in 1995.”
The Boston Police Department has said in a statement that it is legally prohibited from commenting on the 1995 investigation of these “horrific allegations.”
In an announcement Tuesday revealing several police reform measures aimed at boosting accountability and transparency, Janey said Rose’s case would be the first task for her newly created Office of Police Accountability and Transparency.
He said an internal affairs file on Rose, drawn up not to reveal identifying information about the victims, would be released at the end of the week: “The victims of these heinous crimes must be protected, but transparency cannot wait any longer.”
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