BOSTON — The state’s highest court ruled Friday that a convicted child rapist from Weymouth cannot be held under civil commitment as a danger to children.Richard Gardner of Weymouth, who served 28 years in Massachusetts and Rhode Island prisons for kidnapping and raping young boys in the 1980s, has been in custody while Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz appealed a Superior Court decision to deny his request to hold Gardner indefinitely as a sexually [...]
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