An officer with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department has been arrested and charged with numerous human trafficking and child rape violations across several Massachusetts towns, officials announced Saturday. The Hanson Police Department became involved in an active investigation last week for numerous alleged sexual assaults and the creation of child sexual abuse material of a 15-year-old boy that happened in Hanson, Halifax and Middleborough, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.As a result of the investigation, Hanson police sought and obtained an arrest warrant for Richard Kielczweski, 41, of Hanson. He was taken into custody by Hanson police and Middleborough police late Friday. Kielczweski is charged in Middleborough with one count of witness intimidation and enticing a child under 16. In Hanson, Kielczweski is charged with three counts of pay for sexual conduct with a child under 18, two counts of rape of a child aggravated by a 10-year age difference, one count each of rape of a child with force, posing/exhibiting a child in a sexual act, and trafficking persons under 18 for sexual servitude.In Halifax, Kielczweski is charged with two counts each of rape of a child, aggravated by a 10-year age difference and pay for sexual conduct with a child under 18, and one count of trafficking persons under 18 for sexual servitude. “The charges against Officer Kielczweski are extremely serious and deeply disturbing. The Department has taken the swift and decisive action to indefinitely suspend Officer Kielczweski,” the department said in a statement.Kielczweski was hired as a correction officer with the department on July 6, 2015.He was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal from the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Program for his work in the greater Boston area during the 2024 holiday season, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office. Kielczweski was held on $250,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Plymouth District Court.
An officer with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department has been arrested and charged with numerous human trafficking and child rape violations across several Massachusetts towns, officials announced Saturday.
The Hanson Police Department became involved in an active investigation last week for numerous alleged sexual assaults and the creation of child sexual abuse material of a 15-year-old boy that happened in Hanson, Halifax and Middleborough, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.
As a result of the investigation, Hanson police sought and obtained an arrest warrant for Richard Kielczweski, 41, of Hanson. He was taken into custody by Hanson police and Middleborough police late Friday.
Kielczweski is charged in Middleborough with one count of witness intimidation and enticing a child under 16.
In Hanson, Kielczweski is charged with three counts of pay for sexual conduct with a child under 18, two counts of rape of a child aggravated by a 10-year age difference, one count each of rape of a child with force, posing/exhibiting a child in a sexual act, and trafficking persons under 18 for sexual servitude.
In Halifax, Kielczweski is charged with two counts each of rape of a child, aggravated by a 10-year age difference and pay for sexual conduct with a child under 18, and one count of trafficking persons under 18 for sexual servitude.
“The charges against Officer Kielczweski are extremely serious and deeply disturbing. The Department has taken the swift and decisive action to indefinitely suspend Officer Kielczweski,” the department said in a statement.
Kielczweski was hired as a correction officer with the department on July 6, 2015.
He was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal from the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Program for his work in the greater Boston area during the 2024 holiday season, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.
Kielczweski was held on $250,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Plymouth District Court.
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