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Subject: Sex offender raped boy at library

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Date Posted: 23:04:50 02/02/08 Sat

Moments after he allegedly attacked a 6-year-old boy in a library, New Bedford police arrested a registered level 3 sex offender who was sprung from jail just 14 months ago by a judge over the protests of three psychologists.
Corey Saunders, 26, who was convicted of attempted rape of a child in 2001, was being held yesterday at the Dartmouth House of Correction pending a dangerousness hearing. Saunders is accused of raping the 6-year-old in a secluded corner of the New Bedford Public Library on Wednesday evening, while the boy�s mother used the library�s computers.
New Bedford Police said when they arrived about 5:45 p.m., they learned that the boy was �enticed to commit sexual acts,� and was raped by Saunders during the horrific encounter. All city units were immediately put on the lookout for Saunders. A short time later two detectives spotted him near the city�s homeless shelter.
Saunders is a former foster child who was raised as a ward of the state since age 12, according to published reports at the time of his 1999 arrest. He was in an Attleboro foster home less than seven hours when he tried to rape a 7-year-old boy living there. The boy�s mother intervened and Saunders was arrested.
New Bedford police said two years later Saunders was convicted of indecent assault and battery of a child and attempted rape.
When he was set to be released in December 2006, prosecutors tried to get Saunders held as a sexually dangerous person. Three expert psychologists told Superior Court Judge Richard Moses that Saunders was an �extremely sexually dangerous� predator, according to police.
Moses was appointed to the Superior Court in December 2003 under acting Gov. Jane Swift. A message left at a number listed for Moses was not returned. E-mails to the Executive Office of Public Safety were not answered.

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