Howie Carr column ping. By the way I saw an ad in the print
version of the Herald yesterday: new subscribers can get a free paperback copy of Howie's book, The Brothers Bulger...though at one
point in the ad it says "The Bulger Brother's" (sic)...
Joe Magno update: how dare he die before his trial gets underway!
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=178856
>>Sexual assault victims reportedly tormented by a Maynard teacher say the “monster” has tricked them again after he suffered a heart attack and died days before his trial.
Joseph Magno, 66, who reportedly raped boys for decades, died Monday from a heart attack, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone confirmed yesterday.
His trial was expected to start next week.
“I’m somewhat frustrated,” said a Maynard High graduate who alleges Magno molested him throughout middle school. “In a sense, it’s like he escaped again.”
To his defense team and supporters, death robbed “Mags” of a opportunity to clear his name.
Magno faced charges related to one male student, now 18. At least 14 other former students whom Magno taught over his 42-year career, however, wanted to testify against Magno. Judge Diane Kottmyer was expected to decide yesterday whether to allow such evidence.
“For some students, Joe Magno was a helpful teacher,” said Maynard Superintendent Mark Masterson, who has previously refused to comment on the case. “Having no more information than the press, for some students, he was an abuser.”
Masterson suspended Magno without pay several weeks after Magno’s Jan. 6, 2006, arrest.
Maynard Police Chief James Corcoran said he spoke with some of Magno’s accusers Monday night.
“A lot of them wanted their stories to finally be told, and that opportunity is gone now,” Corcoran said.
“We don’t need a judge to tell us that he was guilty,” added Maria Terris, a friend of some of the teacher’s alleged victims. “We knew it and he knew it, and that’s what did this monster in.”
Herald doesn't do home deliveries in my neck of the woods. (Boxborough.)