WORCESTER TEACHER AND CHURCH ELDER PLEADS GUILTY TO CHILD RAPE
A former music teacher at Seven Hills Charter Public School, Tyrone D.Forbes, aged 49, pleaded guilty to child rape charges in Worcester Superior Court.
He was arrested in April following an incident where he and a 15-year-old boy, who was not a student at the school, were found together in a pickup truck in the parking lot of Bennett Field on Main Street.
Court records indicate that Forbes admitted to investigators that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with the boy for five months and had acted as a mentor for him through their church connections.
On the day of his arrest, prosecutors described Mr.
Forbes as being involved in a serious legal case with indictments handed up by a Worcester County grand jury for three counts of unnatural statutory rape occurring between November 1 and March 31.
Judge Mary-Lou Rup sentenced Forbes to two concurrent terms of 2.5 years in the House of Correction, with 18 months to serve and the remainder suspended for three years.
He was also placed on probation for three years, ordered to have no contact with his victim or any child under 16 without supervision, to register as a sex offender, enter treatment, and submit to GPS monitoring.
The district attorney's office had recommended complete incarceration for his entire sentence.
The article notes that Forbes—who also held a position as an elder at Mount Sinai Church of God in Christ—was no longer employed by Seven Hills at the time of sentencing.
