SALEM — A Salem man who gained access to a 9-year-old girl by offering her mother free cocaine pleaded guilty yesterday to multiple child rape charges and was sentenced to 15 to 18 years in state prison. Richard Lapham's plea and sentence was the result of a last-minute agreement just moments before jury selection was set to begin for his trial in Salem Superior Court. Judge David Lowy went along with the plea agreement, but added, "Obviously, there is no punishment commensurate with the evil that constitutes this crime." Lapham, 39, was arrested in August of 2004 after police learned...