Mass. Parole Board Denies Parole to Woman Classified as ‘Sexually Dangerous’ Following Plymouth Massachusetts Incidents

A 76-year-old woman convicted of raping a child and several other crimes, including armed robbery and kidnapping, was denied parole by the state’s parole board following her sixth appearance

The board determined Veronica Raymond, who went by Wayne Raymond at the time of her crimes, had not fully invested in her rehabilitation. Its decision noted Raymond had been committed as a sexually dangerous person multiple times and has “only recently begun admitting to her earlier sexually abusive behaviors.”

Raymond was first civilly committed to the Massachusetts Treatment Center in 1970 for an assault to rape a child charge. She was released five years later. It was only nine months later that she reoffened, the board wrote.

On June 5, 1976, Raymond, then 28, called Plymouth police while standing with a 9-year-old boy, who had a serious cut on his right arm. Raymond claimed she was walking down the street when the boy ran up to her and said he had been stabbed. The boy told police he had been playing behind his house when he was grabbed by a man with a large knife, taken to nearby railroad tracks and stabbed.

The boy identified someone other than Raymond as his attacker, then 10 days later, after two operations, he reversed course, telling police it was in fact Raymond who attacked him. The boy said he initially declined to identify Raymond because she had threatened to kill him and his family.

No other charges were filed against Raymond, as the boy declined to tell police what Raymond had done beyond the kidnapping and stabbing.

Less than two weeks later, on June 11, 1976, Raymond appeared at the front door of another boy’s home in Plymouth, claiming she was having car trouble. When the boy let her in, Raymond pulled out a knife and demanded the boy get her money.

The boy brought Raymond to his parents’ bedroom and handed her $10, at which point Raymond tied him up. But she cut the boy loose when his brothers returned home. She told the boy to tell his brothers she was a friend and he had agreed to help fix her car.

Raymond then took the boy to a nearby golf course, forced him to undress and sexually assaulted him. She threatened the boy not to tell anyone with a knife, but the boy told his mother what Raymond had done, leading to her arrest for both assaults.

In 1979, Raymond was deemed sexually dangerous and committed to the Massachusetts Treatment Center at Bridgewater. She stayed there for 24 years and “sporadically participated in mental health treatment and other programming.”

In 2003, the courts determined Raymond was no longer sexually dangerous and moved her to Massachusetts Correctional Institute – Norfolk. But two years later, she was sent back to the treatment center, only to be sent back to Norfolk at her request in 2007

Case file in pdf format from state

The decision to deny Raymond’s parole was unanimous. She will next be eligible for review in four years.

YOUR KIDS ARE NOT SAFE IF THIS HE/SHE EVER GETS RELEASED