HAVERHILL — A Haverhill man, who is charged with raping a 12-year-old boy for nearly a year, continues to be held without bail in the Middleton House of Correction after a routine pretrial conference yesterday in Salem Superior Court.
Jeffrey Perry, 39, was previously indicted by a grand jury on three counts of rape of a child, one count of disseminating harmful materials to a minor, and eight counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. He faces up to life in prison and is scheduled for a pretrial hearing in Salem on Dec. 22.
Patricia Mandigo, 55, formerly of 99 Emerson St., also known as Patricia Rogers, whose apartment Perry was living in with the boy, also was indicted and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of setting several fires.
She was charged with three counts of causing injury to a firefighter and one count of assault and battery. The offenses occurred between June 6, 2006, and Aug. 9 of this year. They include a three-alarm blaze that destroyed an apartment building at 94 Emerson St. on Dec. 6, 2007, leaving 23 people homeless. Three tenants were injured, as were three Haverhill firefighters. She lived in the building at the time, police said.
According to the Essex County district attorney's office, Mandigo pleaded not guilty to the arson charges. She is due to return to Salem Superior Court tomorrow for both a pretrial conference and a dangerousness hearing and continues to be held without bail at MCI-Framingham.
Police said Perry is a convicted Level 1 sex offender and described him as a sexual predator who bought the boy gifts to gain his trust before convincing him to engage in sex. He was arrested in August when police investigating a fire that Mandigo was charged with setting realized Perry was sharing a bed with the boy in Mandigo's apartment.
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