Former Boston police union head ordered held on $100,000 bail on multiple charges of assaulting young girl – The Boston Globe

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Rose’s behavior over the last 11 days has also been troubling, Mark told the judge.

The 66-year-old Rose left his West Roxbury home and told his family he was going to Arlington for inpatient treatment and would need to turn off his phone. He was actually staying in a hotel in Needham, Mark said.

”We only know that he was not being necessarily truthful with his family about where he was,” Mark said. Prosecutors asked that bail be set at $250,000, while Rose’s lawyer asked for bail to be set at $5,000.

Rose’s lawyer declined to give his name as he left the courthouse, pursued by reporters and cameras.

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said outside the courthouse that the allegations put Rose’s conduct as a police officer into question, including arrests he made and his encounters with minors.

“We don’t want any preferential treatment,” she said. “We are going to be looking deeply into this because this is a broken trust.”

Coffey set various conditions if Rose does make bail, including that he must stay away from the victim, have no unsupervised contact with children younger than 16, undergo GPS monitoring, and surrender his passport, firearms, and license to carry firearms.

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“I think we all recognize this is a very sad and serious case,” Coffey said. “Most importantly, most importantly, the gentleman needs to surrender all firearms and the license to carry so future purchases can’t be made.”

Coffey slated the next hearing in Rose’s case for Sept. 10.

A police report filed in court alleges that Rose sexually assaulted the victim, who is now 14, on “multiple occasions and diverse dates.”

Rose faces a total of nine charges: including one count of aggravated rape of a child and five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Wednesday called for a full investigation into the charges.

“I am deeply disturbed by these horrific allegations, which must be investigated to the fullest extent of the law,” Walsh said.

Sergeant Detective John Boyle, a Boston police spokesman, said Wednesday that Rose is retired from the department.

Leaders of the patrolman’s association, which represents rank and file officers, declined to comment Wednesday.

Rose joined the police department in 1994 and became leader of the union — the largest in the department — in 2014, succeeding longtime president Thomas Nee, who had battled with the late mayor Thomas M. Menino over contract issues.

Under Rose’s leadership, the union and the Walsh administration agreed in 2017 to a four-year, $68 million contract for patrol officers, marking the first time in nearly a decade that both sides voluntarily settled.

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Rose made headlines in 2016 when the union went to Suffolk Superior Court to try to stop the city from implementing a pilot body camera program for police officers.

Then-police commissioner William B. Evans said he would assign officers to wear body cameras if officers did not volunteer to do so. Rose said forcing police to wear cameras would violate the union’s collective bargaining agreement.

The union sought an injunction to delay the pilot program, but Judge Douglas H. Wilkins ruled in the city’s favor.

That fall, the city began a one-year pilot program that placed 100 cameras on patrol officers. A review of the program later found that the number of complaints against officers who wore cameras dropped by roughly one a month.

Rose retired from the department in early 2018. City payroll records show he earned $119,342 in 2017.

Last year, Boston police announced that about 200 officers would don body cameras as the department started to roll out a new program.

Milton J. Valencia and Gal Tziperman Lotan of the Globe staff and Globe correspondent Jeremy C. Fox contributed to this report.


Tonya Alanez can be reached at tonya.alanez@globe.com or 617-929-1579. Follow her on Twitter @talanez. Martin finucane can be reached at martin.finucane@globe.com

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