Ex-counselor indicted on sex charges
May 6, 2005
A 24-year-old Boston man has been
indicted on charges he had sex with a
teenager at a residential facility for
troubled adolescent girls in Arlington,
authorities and school officials said.
Corey English, a former counselor at
Germaine Lawrence Inc., was indicted
April 28 by a Middlesex Superior Court
grand jury on two counts of statutory
rape of a child, according to the
district attorney's office and the
facility. The girl was 15 when the
incidents occurred, in August and
September, said Emily LaGrassa, a
spokeswoman for the Middlesex district
attorney's office. It is illegal to have
sex with someone under 16 years old.
English had passed criminal and
reference checks with the facility, a
statement from Germaine Lawrence Inc.
said. He was suspended after the charges
arose, then fired in December, facility
officials said. An arraignment date has
not yet been scheduled, LaGrassa said.
English could not be reached for
comment.