GUILTY MA-Quincy; Ivan Keith, 61;*Arraignment 1996 Rape Charges* 10 Sep 2019

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A man accused of multiple rapes is set to be arraigned in Norfolk Superior Court on Tuesday on charges stemming from a 1996 Quincy sexual assault.

Ivan Keith, 61, formerly of Bridgewater, left the state 16 years ago and was arrested last month after investigators from several law enforcement organizations discovered him in Seal Cove, Maine. The Norfolk County District attorney’s office has not said what Keith will be charged with in relation to the Quincy rape inside Quincy High School, the Patriot Ledger reported.
Man accused of multiple rapes to face charges in 1996 sexual assault


On Tuesday, Keith is slated to face a Norfolk Superior Court Judge in connection with a rape case from that county, officials said.

Bristol County officials said last month that DNA linked Keith to rapes in Quincy, West Bridgewater, Taunton and Easton in the 1990s.

This superior court arraignment is in connection with the 1996 rape in Quincy, officials said.

“This case was the subject of a John Doe/DNA profile indictment in 2012,” Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey said in a statement Friday. “There was DNA evidence collected subsequent to the report of this rape, and the victim provided a physical description to detectives in 1996. That information became the basis for this indictment. We have amended the indictment to reflect this defendant’s name and scheduled his superior court arraignment.”

‘I get it, my time is up;’ DNA linked Ivan Keith to 4 decades-old Massachusetts rapes, in which he tied up victims with shoelaces

Keith fled Massachusetts 16 years ago and was arrested earlier this month in Maine.
On Feb. 15, 1996, Keith allegedly went to his alma matter, Quincy High School, and raped a 60-year-old woman who was working late in the school’s administration office. Keith tied up the woman using her scarf and pulled out a gun during the attack, according to prosecutors and court documents.
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So glad this guy has been caught, and relieved for the victims.

 

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Ivan Keith is accused of raping several women in Massachusetts in the 1990s

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Ivan Keith, who has been charged with rape in Bristol, Norfolk and Plymouth counties, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping a West Bridgewater woman in 1996, the Plymouth District Attorney’s office announced on Thursday.

Keith pleaded guilty to one count each of rape, kidnapping, open and gross lewdness and failure to register as a sex offender in Brockton Superior Court. Judge Angel Kelly sentenced Keith to serve 19-to-20 years in state prison followed by 5 years of probation.

The conviction stems from an incident on Nov. 22, 1996 along a dirt path near West Bridgewater High School. Keith jumped in front of a woman on the path, raped her and ran away, the DA’s office said.


It wasn’t until 2013, that the Massachusetts Police Crime Lab linked DNA evidence from the 1996 incident to three other rapes in the state.


In August of 2019, the crime lab matched Keith’s DNA to the DNA found in four different Massachusetts cases. He was arrested in Maine where he had been living for 15 years, the DA said.


“Ivan Keith violently attacked this woman and then fled to Maine where he went on with everyday life, leaving the victim behind to cope and try to move on from this terrorizing incident," Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz said in a statement.


The incident is one of four rapes Keith has been connected to that took place during the 1990s in Quincy, West Bridgewater, Taunton and Easton, according to authorities.