Swansea man pleads responsible to baby rape, baby porn expenses

A 21-year-old Swansea man has pleaded responsible to raping a baby and different expenses stemming from a June 2022 incident, the Bristol County District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned Wednesday. 

Joshua Andrade pleaded responsible final week to expenses together with three counts of rape of a kid, one rely of possession of kid pornography, one rely of felony contempt, and 11 different drug and gun expenses, the DA’s workplace mentioned in a press launch. 

Police started investigating Andrade in December 2022 after the sufferer, who was 15 years previous on the time, disclosed to a state Division of Kids and Households employee that she had been raped, the DA’s workplace mentioned. 

In the summertime of 2022, the sufferer was residing together with her foster mom in Fall River. She met and communicated with Andrade over social media, and he instructed her he bought medication, the DA’s workplace mentioned. 

In line with officers, Andrade ultimately invited the sufferer over to his house to smoke marijuana. As soon as she was there, he pressured and compelled her to have intercourse with him 3 times regardless of her repeated protests and the truth that she was drunk, excessive on marijuana, and in a single occasion, asleep. He additionally took a photograph and video of the incidents, officers mentioned.

In December 2022, police obtained a search warrant for Andrade’s house and seized his cellphone and bedding, the DA’s workplace mentioned. On the house, they discovered an inoperable handgun with a big capability feeding system, ammunition, drug dealing provides, practically $7,000 in money, and a wide range of medication. 

Police have been additionally in a position to observe down the picture of the sexual assault that Andrade had shared on social media, the DA’s workplace mentioned. 

Andrade has been sentenced to eight to 12 years in state jail.

“It is vitally discouraging, given the defendant’s younger age, that he’s concerned in such critical felony exercise,” Bristol County District Legal professional Thomas Quinn III mentioned within the launch. “He clearly poses a big hazard to the group. This sentence is important to guard the general public from him.”