Thread: MA-J.C Penney employee charged with raping boy in store

J.C Penney employee charged with raping boy in store dressing room
November 28, 8:45 PM

Dave Gibson
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On Tuesday, police in Sturbridge, MA arrested Francisco Wellington Barros-Gomes, 26 at the J.C Penney’s department store on Route 131. He has been charged with the forcible rape of a child, after allegedly attacking him in one of the store’s dressing rooms.

According to prosecutors, the alleged rape took place around 5:00 p.m., while the boy’s mother was making a phone call. Apparently, Barros-Gomes began a conversation with the boy, offering to bring him more clothes. At some point, the clerk entered the dressing room.

Upon her return, the boy quickly reported the attack to his mother.

During his arraignment on Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Shayne Picard told Dudley District Court Judge Neil G. Snider: “At some point in time his mother needed to step away for a brief period of time to make a phone call while the young man was trying on clothing in a dressing room.â€

J.C. Penney clerk charged with dressing room rape
By Edward Mason
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - Updated 6d 3h ago

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A sales clerk at a J.C. Penney department store in Sturbridge has been arrested and charged with raping a boy in a dressing room, police said.

Francisco Wellington Barros-Gomes, 26, of Charlton, was charged with indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and rape of a child with force, according to Sturbridge police. He was arraigned today in Dudley District Court and ordered held on $25,000 bail.

Police arrested Barros-Gomes after they responded to a report of an assault at the Sturbridge store around 6 p.m. yesterday.

Barros-Gomes is a Brazillian immigrant who is here legally as a resident-alien, police said.

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