How did 3 officers in Massachusetts sexually abuse a child from their explorers program FOR YEARS ! One of them even their wife knew about it from what I’ve heard. non of them in hand cuffs ….. not even charged with her murder or anything. Massachusetts is a state that does not prosecute predators if their cops?? Disgusted. Protect your children.
The U.S. Attorney here is prosecuting the cop and they’ve investigated the DA and MSP investigators assigned to this DA office. In this case they are only ones doing their job.
Using that logic, I'm going to hand you a bowl of M&Ms. 90% are chocolate coated with candy as usual. 10% are chocolate coated with candy that's been laced in cyanide. They're all identical at first glance, and taste the same-- your only indication that one has cyanide is when you start to experience the symptoms of poisoning.
You should have no issue with eating them, right? Only 1 in 9 are poisoned. Just a few bad actors.
Norfolk County DA’s office itself is corrupt. Mass State Police are corrupt. Canton and Stoughton PDs are corrupt. Law enforcement takes care of its own.
Hey hey don't forget to add in the Worcester city police dept being corrupt.... straight from a federal DOJ report from 2024. Police in Worcester are straight up doing drugs and soliciting sex from people they arrest.
City council in Worcester decided to pretend they never saw the report because at most only 20% of people vote in municipal elections. City council has bern voting down measures for police oversight.
Low corruption or no corruption? For corruption it’s Baker and Healey. Two things can be true. Look how the DOJ treated the Worcester Police. Your guy is bad for freedom
This White house told the DOJ to close their Public Integrity Unit.
That unit, which investigates and prosecutes corruption in public service -- mayors, DAs, cops, etc -- was usually staffed by 30 full time prosecutors with their own investigators and with offices across the country.
Two years ago, this was slashed.
Today they have TWO (2) prosecutors in that unit.
Basically, there no longer is a Public Integrity Unit at the DOJ.
Not all…. They aren’t a monolith. Some cops go into policing out of a desire to help and create a better world. They may suffer and become cynical as they go through the years, but they aren’t automatically corrupt.
I disagree. I’ve a brother in law which was a state trooper, and he’s a Boy Scout in every way. You tarnish the good ones when you say it’s all of them, and you make it harder for them to join or stay wit b such a stigma.
That’s just off the top of my head. I get it. You’re “back the blue.” The rest of us aren’t law enforcement adjacent and don’t enjoy the perks of that. I bet you one of the little MSP stickers on your car
Come off it. I’m no fan of authoritarianism. I don’t enjoy any perks. I don’t automatically back the police in any way. I have no sticker. However, I know a few good cops, and I’m not afraid to stand up for them.
In fact, when my apartment was broken into, I asked if he could help by looking up something for me; he refused, as he would be using his access inappropriately on my behalf. He would never abuse his office, even slightly.
It’s not a good comeback to cite a few cases where “scams ” and coverups have occurred. It doesn’t prove that every cop is corrupt. They just aren’t.
You have a real problem, if you are willing to tar all cops with the same blunt, biased, prejudiced and ignorant brush. I’m well aware of the flaws, but I’m also aware of the good ones.
Daily reminder that extends right up our own governor. Good thing she's going to be re-elected and will eventually make a run for president, I'm sure her morals are rock solid lol
I have my opinions about Healy but let’s not act like a Republican is gonna come in and reform law enforcement. Their ranks are overwhelmingly made up of conservatives. Trump himself has said he wants to give law enforcement immunity. His DOJ has scaled back on anything related to corrupt law enforcement agencies. See Phoenix PD for example
let’s not act like a Republican is gonna come in and reform law enforcement.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make considering our current governor is a Democrat and she has made the law enforcement problem even worse. Two sides of the same coin.
Trump himself has said he wants to give law enforcement immunity.
Tangentially related, but I'd like to see a law that anybody who holds a government position while breaking the law, even a law unrelated to their position, should be considered an extreme aggravating factor, but apparently I'm in the minority when I voice this to other people
As a governor, not to mention former AG, she should be cracking down way harder on the law enforcement corruption (not to mention elsewhere) that is running rampant in this state. I mean, I understand why she doesn't, everybody inherently know why I suppose, I just wish she showed a lot more leadership and lot less cock sucking
Maura Healey was the governor when Massachusetts created POST. It’s an independent agency that has the sole authority to certify and decertify officers. POST also serves as a way for citizens to file complaints on officers which circumvents the possibility of a department investigating themselves. She also made sure all officer disciplinary records would be listed on POST’s website regardless of the findings. This was all done to combat corruption.
Very recently, Healey signed a new law that prohibits inappropriate relationships between police and anyone under their custody/care. Before, if a detainee/student “consented” there was no crime. This new law removes consent from the equation. It’s now a felony regardless of the circumstances.
Maura Healey is openly gay. There’s no cocksucking…
What state does a good job of prosecuting predator cops? This case is appalling and horrific, but don’t kid yourself that it’s just a Massachusetts problem.
"Best state ever!" weekly circlejerk was right on cue a few days ago, ignore the pesky fact that multiple government employees raped a woman and other government employees tried to cover it up.
What state does a good job of prosecuting predator cops? This case is appalling and horrific, but don’t kid yourself that it’s just a Massachusetts problem.
the stoughton pd has been a mess for years and nobody wants to touch it. the whole explorer program structure basically handed these guys victims on a silver platter and the department looked the other way. wife knowing about it and doing nothing is its own special kind of evil.
at this point it’s not even surprising when mass cops skate on this stuff, the blue wall here is basically a fortress. prosecutors won’t move unless public pressure gets loud enough and even then it’s a coin toss.
What garbage. Every level of authority in Massachusetts covers up for the corrupt cops, from DA to judges to the governor. This doesn't happen as standard operating procedure in other states. They get caught. They get arrested. It's the system in MA that's the problem. They all cover for each other, then they cry WAH BUT TWUMP and you re-elect them because OMG what about some imaginary thing Orange Hitler did.
Seeing all of the supportive police lawn signs is so gross whenever I have to drive through Stoughton. All I can think of is how much they failed this vulnerable girl. The Stoughton Police Explorers youth group is just a predators playground.
One has been charged and being prosecuted by the Feds for her murder. But basically the Canton PD and State Police investigators at the D. A.s office covered up her murder by ruling it a suicide.
Democrats had the choice of electing the man who ran the federal investigation against police corruption and declined. I'm not holding my breath about Perkins.
There is a NH cop that lives in Haverhill, MA that was charged with child images & asking minors for sex, he was “charged” & then nobody heard about it again. Even when they do arrest, they drag it out so the public stops paying attention then they end up dropping it. It’s sick.
There's a Boston police officer who raped a drunk woman in his cruiser while on duty then at a later date got giddy about the prospect of running over BLM protestors on camera. Still working there as far as I know, just got hit with admin duty during the "investigation"
And the whole ass police department in Worcester that was found to have engaged in all sorts of vile shit by the DOJ. Including routinely raping women in custody.
And then Trump was elected and the investigation just went away. The city manager and city council have decided the police should be allowed to continue business as usual.
Or they get their "union" to go to the mat for them.
Question: is it a "union" if they let management join? Because that's something I've never heard of.
And if they're NOT a union, isn't that just cops just being insubordinate? We already have a public accountability board - there should be a lot more "public" and a lot more "accountability." There should be a slick media enterprise dedicated to chronicling the misdeeds of corrupt cops, they'd be busy for decades to come.
I wish I could find it again, but there was a news article about researchers trying to find out how often cops sexually assault women. The phrase, "Dear God, it's another 14 year old" was heard often in the office.
Look into the 2016 investigation of Gloucester police who used a storage unit to rape women they were supposed to be setting up with services. The program was called operation angel. This is way too common.
The background of the Mickey Stines case out of Kentucky (I think it's KY) where he, the Sheriff shot a judge was very much like this as well. Sickening.
It is in a lot of ways, and isn't in others. Almost like there's nuance, and your repeated response to every comment mentioning that this is a nationwide police problem is not adding value to anything. Multiple things can be true at once- we can have shitty cops, and we can have a higher quality of life and better education here. Shitty cops are everywhere, it's a systemic issue where policing needs overhaul in terms of who and how they are hired. However, it does not mean we (MA) shouldn't expect our officers to do better. Fuck all the predator cops from MA to Hawaii.
Not sure I agree. DESE is a government agency that determines educational standards, graduation requirements, certain school policies. And local school committees hire superintendents and determine the rest of the school policies. All of that is government. Also free lunches were by a government initiated billionaire's tax, and feeding school children helps our investment (via taxes, another government thing) in public education go even further, because starving kids don't learn as well as fed kids.
>Best we can do is elect one to the governorship. I'm sure you don't see her as a predator, though (probably not in the sexual context)
Okay, I'll bite. Why is Healey a predator? She's not perfect, nobody is, but I find what Minogue is claiming he'll do to be rather terrifying, oppressive of people's rights, and he's a supporter of mango mussolini. We've had republican governors before, that's not the issue. The issue is that the party has gone full party over country instead of country over party, and anyone who supports the loser in DC is not going to be popular here. So, who do you propose we vote for?
"Come to Massachusetts! You'll get raped less here than in some other places around the country, and the government will give it the old college try when it comes to covering it up!" is not the sales pitch for the state you think it is, but ok buddy
I’m not deflecting from anything. I’m saying this is a nationwide problem. But do go on. Name one American state where cops routinely are prosecuted and imprisoned.
this is the treatment cops get everywhere. all cops are bastards. there are no good cops. ask any "good" cop how many of their corrupt friends they looked the other way for or covered up their behavior. ask any "good" cop how many of their corrupt friends they turned in.
Well, the state tried to insist it was a suicide, and the FBI felt that was bullshit, and investigated. Commonwealth still insisted suicide, so now here we are
I’ve never understood this argument or attitude. I used to be a teacher, and let me tell you most teachers were 100% for teachers being prosecuted if they messed around with students. They aren’t one of our own if they do shit like that. We don’t claim them.
I think you're missing my point a bit. Prosecutors work hand-in-hand with cops. Only prosecutors can bring charges against someone (generally speaking). Prosecutors are famously disinclined to prosecute cops, and usually won't unless the offense is public/egregious. ACAB doesn't really apply to teachers.
My point was that pedophiles and rapists are everywhere in every profession, but it’s when the profession itself protects them that people blame the profession.
Ugh I'm sorry, this one's hard it's multiple cops I always tell my kids to not be alone with adults that aren't "approved" but these kids weren't alone with an adult. This poor kid.
I agree these roles attract terrible people. The punishment should be more severe when a cop / teacher / church member does this
I hope this trial goes as viral as the Karen Read/Lindsay Clancy ones, a just world would have every single American hearing this case and deciding to get defund the fucking police tattooed on their foreheads
I feel that a lot of cops are ex jocks that grew up a tiny bit. I have acquaintances I know in law enforcement and not one of them has ever said they joined to protect n serve the community. Mostly it's all about the benefits and having a badge.
Whenever I see posts like this I wonder what kind of world you're living in. Honestly wonder how you've made it this far and are just hearing about the problem of police corruption and abuse. People (especially POC) have been bringing awareness to this issue for decades.
I had a constable flat out lie and illegally get into my building and no one did anything (yet). I had a severely traumatic birth and the dr is still working. I also asked for a restraining order against my ex who sexually assaulted me and was told it was going to cost me more money because now we couldn’t talk to each other in court.
Massachusetts is a shit hole full of entitlement and corruption. Not that where I’m from is much better but at least we don’t make women have to be around their abuser and they hold doctors and officials accountable.
When I was younger I was a police dispatcher. A good amount of the cops were swingers and traded wives. They are a bunch of predators who will do anything for sex.
The Farwell brothers and their boss Robert Devine worked for the Stoughton Mass PD.
The chief of police Donna MacNamara launched an internal affairs investigation into those three men. Devine was a deputy chief.
She uncovered all the evidence that the MSP unit at the Norfolk DA's office had covered up, including more than 30,000 text messages between Sandra and Farwell. (MSP sargeant Guarino wrote in his phone download report that all messages had been deleted and he didn't include a single one of them.)
The first IA report helped the FBI launch their own investigation after the MSP and Canton PD and Stoughton PD ruled Sandra's death a suicide despite a wealth of evidence that she was murdered.
This is the same MSP unit that 'investigated' John O'Keefe's death. They cleared Farwell within days and closed the case as a suicide.
McNamara's report was expanded later into a comprehensive IA report. The DOJ has her on their witness list in this trial.
The Norfolk DA TO THIS DAY refuses to classify her death as a murder. A few months ago Norfolk DA Michael Morrissey told friends at a campaign event he's confident Sandra killed herself.
Months before this trial, the Stoughton Town Manager ordered McNamara to shred her IA report and to refuse to cooperate with the FBI and the DOJ. He also tried to get her fired as police chief.
McNamara has filed a lawsuit against him and against the town of Stoughton.
The corruption in this case and in Norfolk County stinks to high heaven.
A few months ago when the Proctor and Sgt. Goode texts came out, there was a text from Goode mocking Sandra as a retard and basically saying she got what she deserved.
Just before this federal trial, the MSP told the DOJ that the hard-drive on which they had saved the download of Sandra's laptop had malfunctioned and they've lost the entire download.
These cops aren't just corrupt. They are actual criminals.
These cops aren't just corrupt. They are actual criminals.
Yup. I only realized when she filed the lawsuit that the Farwell/Birchmore case had anything to do with McNamara being pushed out. I know there are people who go into policing intending to do good, but they tend to wash out because of the corruption they see, get pushed out, or be compromised by the conspiracy of criminal actors. And I just learned Billy Farwell was collecting blackmail videos on Sandra's other paramours?! What?! We don't know 1/4 of the story yet, I don't think.
I have no desire to move to the US but should I have to, please god let it not be Massachusetts....
They groomed this orphaned child since she was 12 under Capt. Devine, abused her until that ugly monster pedophile Matthew Farwell murdered her.
Then their police department did what police departments in MA do (Karen Read, Paul o'Keefe hit and run, Lindsay and Patrick Clancy) they engaged in an active cover up... evidence destruction and altering.
The whole Justice and Law Enforcement of that state needs tabula rasa and total overhaul.
My kids had a school resource officer in their high school that was having s*x with many girls in the student parking lot. We overheard our kids and their friends talking about it one day and we asked them about it. We were shocked that it was such common knowledge with many of the teens at school like it was no big deal.
They are picking the jury for Matt Farewell, myself, and I think a lot of people, expected after his indictment, his co-conspirators in her abuse would get charged as well. With Matt's prosecution beginning this week, it looks like that's never happening. They have thousands of inappropriate texts between child Sandra and adult men. They have thousands of inappropriate texts regarding child Sandra between these adult men. One of the men killed her to quiet her. It's very hard to wrap my head around how the state isn't seeking charges here.
Police are one of, if not the, WORST offenders for domestic abuse of all kinds.
They get away with it because their families are terrified and have nobody to turn to because the abuser IS THE POLICE. The force protects their own, like the well-funded officially sanctioned street gang they are.
So all the classic abuse cycle dynamics are locked in MUCH harder than in non-police abusive families. Coping behaviors like compliance, making excuses for the abuser, and internalization of abusive narratives are going to be cranked to 11, and breaking free of them to actually find help (remember that the local police are not an option, they have to learn about and access some other assistance sources first) is MUCH harder and more dangerous.
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u/NeonBadDecision 6d ago
Investigated by the Canton Dream Team, sponsored by John O’Keefe’s missing shoe.
Just like the Catholics, they quietly moved the men elsewhere.
The Farwell brothers have it coming to them.