Man given 10-30 years for sexual assault
NASHUA – A city man could serve up to 30 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a preschooler five years ago.
Richard Madore, 44, formerly of 59 Whitney St., Nashua, received a maximum sentence Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court, according to a statement from the county attorney’s office.
Judge William Groff told Madore he had committed a “despicable act,” and that the victim – who was 3 or 4 years old at the time of sexual assault – had been “traumatized.”
Groff then handed down a 10-to-30 year sentence in the New Hampshire State Prison, along with a concurrent sentence of 31⁄2 to 7 years for incest. He also recommended that Madore participate in sex offender counseling.
Madore is next scheduled to stand trial in January on other sexual assault charges, alleging that he raped and otherwise abused another girl between 2001 and 2006, and charges that he repeatedly molested the girl’s brother from 2001-05 and threatened him at knife-point to keep him quiet about the alleged abuse.
Nashua police began investigating the initial case in 2004, after the child made a comment to a day care worker that provoked the worker’s suspicion.
An investigation was suspended due to victim’s age, but Nashua police Sgt. Michael Moushegian took the case back up in 2006, when the victim was six years old.
Madore was arrested in the fall of 2006.
During the five-day trial, held this past summer, the victim – by then 9 years old – told a jury how Madore had assaulted her.
Moushegian also testified that Madore admitted to the assault, and the jury heard his confession on tape.
State lab criminalist Melissa Staples told the court that results of immunological testing of on the girl’s clothing were similar to seminal material from Madore, but no DNA match could be obtained in the sample, the release said.
Madore’s defense team called three expert witnesses to testify against the state’s evidence. One claimed victim’s allegations were false, product of “suggestive” counseling techniques, according to prosecutors. Another testified that Madore was “coerced” into confessing, and a third testified that the DNA found could have come from a relative.
A jury deliberated for several hours before finding Madore guilty on two of the three charges against him: aggravated felonious sexual assault and incest. Groff had dismissed three other charges during the course of the trial, finding there wasn’t enough evidence to support them.
Assistant County Attorney Patricia LaFrance told the court Madore had two prior assault sexual convictions in Massachusetts stemming from the 1980s.
“The fact is that the victim, from the time she was 4 years old, has never accused anyone but the defendant of committing this horrible act against her,” she said.
Karen Lovett can be reached at 594-6402 or klovett@nashuatelegraph.com.
City man sentenced to maximum in child sex assault case
NASHUA – A city man could serve up to 30 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a preschooler five years ago.
Richard Madore, 44, formerly of 59 Whitney St., Nashua, received a maximum sentence Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court, according to a press release from the county attorney’s office.
Judge William Groff told Madore he had committed a “despicable act,” and that the victim – who was 3 or 4 years old at the time of sexual assault – had been “traumatized.”
Groff then handed down a 10-to-30 year sentence in the New Hampshire State Prison, along with a concurrent sentence of 3 1/2 to 7 years for incest. He also recommended that Madore participate in sex offender counseling.
Madore is next scheduled to stand trial in January on other sexual assault charges, alleging that he raped and otherwise abused another girl between 2001 and 2006, and charges that he repeatedly molested the girl’s brother from 2001-05 and threatened him at knife-point to keep him quiet about the alleged abuse.
Nashua police began investigating the initial case in 2004, after the child made a comment to a day care worker that provoked the worker’s suspicion.
An investigation was suspended due to victim’s age, but Nashua Police Sgt. Michael Moushegian took the case back up in 2006, when the victim was six years old.
Madore was arrested in the fall of 2006.
During the five-day trial, held this past summer, the victim – by then 9 years old – told a jury how Madore had assaulted her.
Moushegian also testified that Madore admitted to the assault, and the jury heard his confession on tape.
State lab criminalist Melissa Staples told the court that results of immunological testing of on the girl’s clothing were similar to seminal material from Madore, but no DNA match could be obtained in the sample, the release said.
Madore’s defense team called three expert witnesses to testify against the state’s evidence. One claimed victim’s allegations were false, product of “suggestive” counseling techniques, according to prosecutors. Another testified that Madore was “coerced” into confessing, and a third testified that the DNA found could have come from a relative.
A jury deliberated for several hours before finding Madore guilty on two of the three charges against him: aggravated felonious sexual assault and incest. Groff had dismissed three other charges during the course of the trial, finding there wasn’t enough evidence to support them.
Assistant County Attorney Patricia LaFrance told the court Madore had two prior assault sexual convictions in Massachusetts stemming from the 1980s.
“The fact is that the victim, from the time she was four years old, has never accused anyone but the defendant of committing this horrible act against her,” she said.
