A compulsive child sex predator who was convicted of drugging and raping a young girl hundreds of times and of molesting another child was ordered freed yesterday by a Cambridge judge despite objections by prosecutors who fought to have him committed to a locked treatment center.
In Cambridge yesterday, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Bonnie MacLeod-Mancuso released Berg, who in 1998 confessed to prosecutors that he first molested, then eventually raped, his girlfriend’s child four to five times a week from the time she was 8 until she was 13 years old.
In 1997 he was convicted of molesting a 9-year-old girl that his girlfriend was babysitting, and in 1990 he was jailed for 16 months for raping a woman after she passed out on a couch.
Andrew “Billy” Berg, 47, of Shirley walked free one day after another sex predator, convicted child molester Corey Saunders, was arraigned for raping a 6-year-old boy in the New Bedford Public Library, 14 months after he was freed despite prosecutors’ attempts to have him civilly committed.
The two back-to-back cases outraged child advocates, who say Bay State judges who release predators, and lawmakers who won’t toughen sex offender laws, are unwitting enablers of child sex crimes.
“When push comes to shove, there is nobody looking out for kids in the state,” said Laurie Myers of Community Voices of Chelmsford, which has filed legislation to toughen child sex crime sentences.
“They let these predators out there. They let them hunt kids. What do they care – they are accountable to no one.”
In Cambridge yesterday, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Bonnie MacLeod-Mancuso released Berg, who in 1998 confessed to prosecutors that he first molested, then eventually raped, his girlfriend’s child four to five times a week from the time she was 8 until she was 13 years old.
In 1997 he was convicted of molesting a 9-year-old girl that his girlfriend was babysitting, and in 1990 he was jailed for 16 months for raping a woman after she passed out on a couch.
For the most recent crime, he was sentenced to 11 years, but he was released to a secure treatment facility last year, and yesterday prosecutors tried to stop him from walking free.
MacLeod-Mancuso dismissed their petition.
“The court is not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is a sexually dangerous person,” MacLeod-Mancuso ruled.
At the hearing yesterday, two state experts told the judge Berg will offend again. All five experts who appeared agreed he was a pedophile. But a source said three of the five told the judge it is possible Berg would not offend again because he is on probation and is nearly 50 years old, an age that might mitigate his perversions.
However, the mother of one of Berg’s targets, who was just 9 when she was molested while Berg thought the girl was sleeping, is convinced Berg will strike again.
“Definitely. He will. There’s no doubt,” she said. “He uses women. He uses vulnerable women. He puts himself in your circle, then he gets your kid,” she said.
She lived in an apartment above Berg in Maynard in the late 1990s when he lived with a woman and her four daughters. One of them was repeatedly raped, but kept silent, law enforcement officials said, because Berg threatened to kill her if she talked.
After years of abuse by Berg, the girl fled the state to live with her father, and opened up about Berg’s crimes. She was committed to a mental health facility under a suicide watch.
Around the same time, the 9-year-old victim came forward, allowing prosecutors to go after Berg with multiple rape and molestation charges.
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The truth and statistics are out and all the misinformation and hate speech in the world can’t change that.
Hey I wasn’t able to find the Josh Junsford article on any of your sites nor the Patty Wetterling story?? What gives?
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“Your site is full of Lame misinformation.”
That’s interesting considering this is nothing more than copy and paste news articles.
How exactly does sharing the news make this a hate site?
Yes the truth and statistics are out there. Sarah Tofte of the Human Rights Watch claims that 25% of all sex offenders will reoffend within 15 years.
Which Patty Wetterling story are you interested in? The one where her son was killed by a sex offender or the one where the other son became a sex offender and she changed her mind?
I don’t know anyone named Josh Junsford. But if you’re talking about Josh Lunsford he’s a perfect example of how very few people are put on the sex offender registry for having teenaged sex. The vast majority of RSO’s are child molesters and violent offenders, and people like YOU try to use those who take plea bargains and get their crime reduced on the books to claim that RSO’s aren’t dangerous.
The good news is that the American public is a hell of a lot smarter than you give them credit for and they see right through you. The only people who buys into your lies and your spin and your distortions are other dangerous people who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions.
Fuck off, your opinion is worth as much as a pile of dog shit.