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Date Posted: 08:19:28 10/17/08 Fri
Author: BELIEVING IN THE DEATH PENALTY!
Subject: BIGGEST P.O.S.

A 38-year-old psychiatric patient who allegedly forced a 14-year-old hospital volunteer into a stairwell and raped her twice was ordered held on $500,000 bail yesterday.

Vernon Lee Thompson of Mattapan pleaded not guilty yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court to two counts of rape of a child.

Prosecutors allege that Thompson befriended the girl in July during her first week with the Shattuck Hospital Junior Volunteers program in Jamaica Plain.

Thompson asked for her phone number and she sympathetically gave it to him because he seemed lonely, but then she became alarmed when he started calling her and she told her father, said prosecutor Leora Joseph. A week later, on July 10, Thompson allegedly forced the girl down a set of stairs to an area where there were no security cameras and raped her twice, once forcing her to perform oral sex on him, Joseph said.

“She was very scared,” Joseph said.

A hospital employee saw the girl giving Thompson oral sex but did not physically intervene, according to a police report. Instead, the staffer told the pair to “split up” and “not do that there,” the report states.

The girl followed the employee to a safe location. She then told her father about the rape.

The incident prompted a review by the state health department, and the hospital shut down its junior volunteer program.

Joseph asked that Thompson be held on $500,000 cash bail citing his history of defaulting as well as a lengthy criminal record. Thompson’s attorney, Joan Stanley, did not make a bail argument. A clerk magistrate ordered Thompson held on $500,000 cash.

Thompson has prior convictions, court records show, for open and gross lewdness, indecent exposure, making threats, malicious destruction of property, trespassing and shoplifting. In 2006, he was found not guilty of brandishing a box cutter at two women at the Ashmont MBTA Station and then repeatedly stabbing a man at the same depot, all on Aug. 4, 2003.

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