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Former ’50s Club Director Convicted/Imprisoned as Child Rapist

Former ’50s Club Director Convicted/Imprisoned as Child Rapist

Ed Darragh was a Charlestown Boys Club Director in 1957 He worked there from the 40s thru the 60s, before being imprisoned as a serial child rapist. On February 3, 2001, I received an anonymous letter from a Charlestown resident, which stated: “The only child molesting incident I ever recall hearing about in Charlestown was [...]

July 25, 2012 | By | Reply More
Charlestown Boys Club Assistant Director Corroborates Rape

Charlestown Boys Club Assistant Director Corroborates Rape

Excerpts of Conversations With Edmund Moussally About the Crime Summary of Content This document contains excerpts of conversations between myself and Edmund Moussally, who is presently a tenured professor of music at Roxbury Community College and who, by his own account, was assistant to the camp director at the Stay-At-Home day camp in 1963. These [...]

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Third Victim Corroborates Abuse at Charlestown Boys Club in ’63

Third Victim Corroborates Abuse at Charlestown Boys Club in ’63

About This Document I received the following letter by e-mail at at 9:43 PM on March 21, 2001 from an individual named Mark Arsenault. On July 4, 1963, the Charlestown Patriot Newspaper published a list of some of the boys who attended the Stay-At-Home day camp that summer, and Mr. Arsenault’s name was on that [...]

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Second Victim Corroborates Child Rape at Charlestown Boys Club

Second Victim Corroborates Child Rape at Charlestown Boys Club

History On Sunday, January 23, 2000, I received the following letter from an individual who wishes to remain anonymous. One week later, I telephoned the Club’s attorneys at Palmer & Dodge and read the letter to them. That same day, I faxed them a copy, as it appears below, in redacted form. Two weeks later, [...]

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1963 Child Rape Victim Asks Boston Boys Club for Help

1963 Child Rape Victim Asks Boston Boys Club for Help

History This was my first letter to the Boys Club. It was sent September 16, 1996, just one month after I was forced to suspend a seven-month period of intensive work due to a depletion of funds. That work had led directly to my discovery (in May of 1996) of what had happened in 1963 [...]

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