Somerset Man Convicted of Child Rape and Sentenced to State Prison

Bristol County District Attorney’s Office 

Thomas M. Quinn III 

District Attorney

Press Release 

September 27, 2017​​​​

A 35-year-old Somerset man caught by police last February having oral sex with an underage girl in a Somerset parking lot was sentenced to serve five years in state prison late week, District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced.

Frank Macri pleaded guilty last week to a multi-count indictment charging him with rape of a child, posing a child in the nude and disseminating child pornography.

On February 19, 2016 Somerset Police were on a routine patrol of the Park and Ride parking lot on Slade’s Ferry Avenue when officers witnessed a topless female leaning into the lap of a man inside a parked car at the lot. When officers approached the vehicle they witnessed the female rushing to put her shirt back on and the male in the driver’s seat with his pants unbuttoned.

After a brief discussion with both occupants, police learned the female was a 14-year-old-girl.  The girl told police she had met the defendant online and had met with him in person on numerous occasions.  

Investigating officers seized the victim’s iPad and the defendant’s cell phone. On the iPad, they found numerous videos of the girl performing oral sex on the defendant. A subsequent forensic review of the defendant’s cell phone determined that the defendant had taken all of the videos and then sent them to the victim.

In addition to the five year state prison term, Fall River Superior Court Judge Raffia Yessayan sentenced the defendant to 10 years of probation to commence upon his release from prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Lesly Leahy.

“This defendant engaged in deviant behavior with an underage girl and must be held accountable.,” said District Attorney Quinn.

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