Irish firefighter found guilty of rape in Boston!

Dublin firefighter Terence Crosbie, who was jailed last week for raping a woman in a Boston hotel, was transferred to Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a supermax prison home to notorious incidents.

https://www.mass.gov/locations/souza-baranowski-correctional-center

He's white Irish, the guards will be grand to him.

From my own experience, (not in prison) but with dealing with law enforcement in the Boston area, they are much more lenient to white Irish than they are to Hispanic or African Americans.

Boston is often regarded as one of the the most racist cities in the US, if not the most racist.

I hadn't thought of that.

I'd imagine the conviction. Though, similar to your point on the logic in appealing the sentence, I think it'll be a futile exercise in appealing the conviction too.

In some ways he's had two trials to prove his innocence already, hard to see what could come to light during an appeal which will overturn the conviction. I imagine that the financial strain will be huge too. I know the family used donations from a GoFundMe for representation for the second trial, but you'd imagine a similar volume of donations to fight an appeal won't be as forthcoming.

“Again, it feels like he's trying to save face in front of his family and wife.”

I don’t see anything that’s appealable - there didn’t seem to be contested evidence submitted or anything like that - someone made an accusation- evidence was compiled and presented - verdict was guilty - 2 trials - certainly enough time to get story and presentation of defence correct. There was no reasonable doubt. Even if his questions to the police around the allegation were some sort of police trickery gotcha, his claims of breakfast time self gratification couldn’t happen as he wasn’t checked in and then there’s that early flight back before paddy’s day.

And that’s before the testimony of the victim herself which was pretty articulate and clear

Hard to maintain your innocence with all of that but if it gets him through next number of years….

That's certainly applicable, if the legal fees in question only relate to fees to fund an appeal.

Without knowing any exact arrangements with his legal team, there could potentially still be fees owed for the defence team used in the second trial, which is what the family had initially set-up their GoFundMe page to help out with.

I'm certainly not trying to sell sympathy, or putting out the begging bowl for his legal fees.

I'm clarifying that the GoFundMe may not extend to the appeal, as you had posted "It's pretty simple. Don't appeal. No legal fees then."

there was another one that was set up and did very well , pretty sure around 32k the last I saw it

He knew he was a rapist at the exact time he brutally raped a sleeping young woman.

If money is a problem he should have pled guilty and spared the expense.

Again, the sympathy for this brutal rapist is bizarre.

You're upset because he was called a rapist. He became a literal rapist when he raped that young woman, that is a fact. He became a convicted rapist at trial.

The only "terrible ordeal" here is the young woman who was brutally raped as she slept.

Again it's a hard sell trying to justify crowd funding for rapists.

He chose to go to trial, which is his right. Which retraumatised the victim and placed his family with a financial burden plus it dragged the whole ordeal out for both the victim and his wife. Further abuse of women, which is hardly a surprise.

But only here would people have a problem with someone suggesting I hope the gofundme doesn't raise any money.

Like I said it is bizarre.

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