Wareham man convicted of child rape receives 10-year sentence

Sep 1, 2017

A West Wareham man convicted of raping a 15-year-old child received a sentence of 10 years to 10 years and one day and five years probation on Aug. 25.

David Gendron, 67, of 11 Gault Road, was found guilty on four counts of aggravated rape of a child and four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 following a seven and half hour jury deliberation in Superior Court, said Plymouth County District Attorney spokeswoman Beth Stone.

Stone said the jury heard evidence at trial starting on Aug. 23 and Aug. 24. Deliberations started Aug. 25 at 10 a.m. and Gendron was found guilty at 5:30 p.m.

For probation, Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke ordered that Gendron: have no unsupervised contact with children under the age of 16, wear a GPS monitoring bracelet and be subject exclusionary zones, have no contact with the victim, register as a sex offender and comply with sex offender treatment.

According to Stone, in February 2016 the 15-year-old victim reported to Wareham Police she had been raped and sexually assaulted by Gendron on a number of occasions between 2009 and 2011. Gendron was arrested on March 3, 2016 by Wareham Police following an investigation.