Both Cases Retrials after Prior Hung Juries 

BOSTON, Aug. 13, 2014—A Roslindale man became the second defendant this week to be convicted of child rape and sentenced to state prison after previous juries deadlocked on the two unrelated cases, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

After delivering their verdict this morning, several of the jurors who convicted TERRENCE ANDERSON (D.O.B. 2/20/61) of sexually assaulting a teenage relative in the late 1990s returned to the courtroom this afternoon for his sentencing. Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Keeley recommended that he serve seven to 10 years in state prison followed by 10 years of probation. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Linda Giles imposed a term of three to five years in prison followed by 10 years of probation.

Keeley proved that the defendant used his position within the family to abuse the victim when she was in her young teens.  Now 31, the victim disclosed the abuse to Boston Police and Suffolk prosecutors after media reports on the arrest of Pennsylvania State University football coach Gerald Sandusky.

“Cases like this one are the reason we fought so hard to extend the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse,” Conley said. “This crime is unique in its harm to children, and it’s unfair to hold children to the same standards as adults in reporting it.”

On Monday, a different Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted JAMAAL EGLESTON (D.O.B. 5/1/80) of sexually assaulting three girls at the Men and Women of Crossroads Ministries, where he worked as a youth pastor, between 2005 and 2009.  The victims, ages 11 through 15 at the time of the offenses, disclosed the abuse in 2011.

At sentencing yesterday, Assistant District Attorney Laura Montgomery recommended that he serve 10 to 12 years in state prison followed by 10 years of probation. Judge Thomas Connors imposed five to seven years in prison and six years of probation, but did order all of Montgomery’s requested conditions: that he register and seek treatment as a sex offender, that he stay away from the victims and all children under 18, and that he accept no leadership position in a church.

“Every time a victim discloses abuse, another candle lights the darkness for other children who haven’t come forward,” Conley said. “It’s difficult – even wrenching – for these kids to tell what happened to them, but it’s made the world safer for other children.”

Christine Berardino was the DA’s victim-witness advocate on the Anderson case. Eliana Builes was the assigned victim-witness advocate on the Egleston case.

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