Rapist demands paternal visitation rights to the child he fathered with victim

Wendy Murphy is the victim's attorney

A man who raped a 14-year-old girl and got her pregnant is now allegedly demanding visitation rights for the child, can you imagine?. The man, then 20, met his victim at church when she was in the eighth grade, and had sex with her. Its bad enough she was raped at a young age and then she has to be reminded about it by her rapist. The Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to four accounts of statutory rape on four counts in 2009.

The unidentified rapist was sentenced by Norfolk Superior Court Judge Thomas McGuire to 16 years probation in 2011, after prosecutors tried to have him jailed for three to five years. Part of the probation arrangement demanded he acknowledge he is the baby’s father and follow probate and family court rules. The law requires him to pay child support — but also entitles him to seek visitation rights.

'What legal system requires a toddler to have a relationship with the man who raped her mother?'