Witnesses
According to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, a nurse passed by Thompson and the victim in the stairwell, but did not interfere. A second witness separated them when Thompson was seen with his arm around the girl.
Published 22:22, October the 6th, 2008
DA says psych patient raped teen employee
BOSTON. A psychiatric patient at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain was charged with twice raping a 14-year-old female hospital volunteer, prosecutors announced yesterday.
Vernon Lee Thompson, 38, is expected to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court this week on two counts of rape of a child.
The victim, a member of the hospital’s Junior Volunteers Program, told authorities that Thompson tried to grab her as she used a pay phone in the hospital lobby July 10.
The girl pushed him away and fled to a stairwell, where Thompson allegedly forced himself on her and raped her twice, prosecutors said. Thompson was held on $100,000 bail after an earlier arraignment in West Roxbury Municipal Court.
