Lawrence Serial Rapist Child Sex Offender Arrested For Raping Woman In Boston Was Featured In Lowell Sun As “Success Story” In July
Earlier this week Boston Police asked for the public’s assistance finding a Lawrence man who was wanted for rape, assault with intent to rape, and assault and battery for an incident on Harrison Ave over the weekend.
This didn’t happen in meth mile. It was downtown Boston. Luckily they found him yesterday and he was arrested.
Rapey McGee pretended to be an Uber driver and forced his way into the victim’s apartment. He also may be a serial rapist who has sexually assaulted other women in the Boston University area.
The woman said Fantauzzi claimed to be an Uber driver and asked to use a bathroom inside her apartment building.
“He dragged me into the building, and he was very violent. He was strong,” the victim said. “I thought he would take my keys and drag me back into my apartment and do something worse. I also thought I might be killed.”
Multiple sources told 5 Investigates’ Kathy Curran that investigators are eyeing Fantauzzi as a suspect in two recent incidents at Boston University.
BU police said they are investigating the rape of a student who said a man forced his way into her apartment near Granby Street shortly before midnight Friday. Three other students then reported a man aggressively followed them on Granby Street as they walked to the South Campus and then offered them a ride.
But why was he on the streets in the first place? Last July he was arrested in Tewksbury on outstanding warrants for robbery and petty theft, and he resisted when police found him in a Motel 6.
On Saturday, police arrested Police arrested Edwin Fantauzzi, 32, of Lowell, on Saturday after learning he was staying at the Motel 6 in Tewksbury. He was wanted in Volusia County, FL on charges robbery, petty theft, and possession of paraphernalia. Fantauzzi struggled with police officers as he was arrested. During the arrest, police found suboxone in the motel room and charged with resisting arrest and possession of a class B substance.
It gets worse. A month before that arrest he was featured in a Lowell Sun puff piece that aimed to make the reader feel bad for him, and actually went so far as to call him a success story.
Edwin Fantauzzi hasn’t had it easy. The 32-year-old, originally from Lawrence, lost his father at age 11, and has struggled with depression ever since. After he and his mom moved to Andover, he felt out of place as a person of color.
Oh yes, the career criminal rapist is the victim here because he had to live in Andover and isn’t white. He’s depressed so he can’t be held responsible for his own actions.
As an adult, he rented a room in Lowell because “Lawrence was just awful.”
“There’s really not as much help as Lowell,” he added, speaking of Lowell’s robust social services.
Not much later, though, he was incarcerated for three years at the Middlesex House of Correction in Billerica. (He declined to say why.) He was released in November 2020, determined to turn his life around.
Stellar reporting right there. The recently released convict wouldn’t tell the newspaper doing a story on him why he was in jail, and they couldn’t be bothered to look it up because that requires actually doing work. He was determined to turn his life around, but we don’t know what exactly he was turning away from because he won’t say.
What the Lowell Sun failed to look into was the fact that Edwin Fantauzi is a Level 3 sex offender who was convicted of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 14. BPD was looking for him in 2018:
BPD Community Alert: The Boston Police Department is seeking the public’s help to locate Edwin Fantauzzi, 30, of Lawrence, who is wanted on charges of Assault with Intent to Rape a Child Under 16, Aggravating Kidnapping, Enticement of a Child and Indecent Assault and Battery on a Child Under 14 in relation to an incident that occurred on Saturday November 3, 2018, in the area of 10 Hammond Street in Lower Roxbury. Investigators believe that the suspect may be utilizing an alias of Roberto Santiago.
But that would get in the way of the narrative they’re trying to push. Racist white people in Andover were the real reason this poor guy couldn’t get ahead.
He saw this nonprofit coming from a mile away and got a much out of them as he could.
Just six months later, Fantauzzi has his own apartment in Lowell and is in a machine operator’s apprenticeship program, preparing to interview for full-time employment. He has Mandy McGowan, a diversion specialist at Lowell Transitional Living Center, to thank for his success.
“Mandy is awesome,” he said. “She helped me with vouchers, she helped me with furniture, she helped me get me in a more comfortable situation, like being in the hotel for the remaining two weeks that I was here.”
So a Level 3 sex offender pedophile used this woman to get a bunch of free stuff for his apartment, then a month later he was arrested in a Tewksbury motel on warrants and there were a bunch of drugs inside. This is a “success.”
McGowan calls Fantauzzi a perfect example of how a diversion program can help those with unstable housing find their footing. Her job, in a program that started in September, is to help each person who comes through the shelter find an alternative to sticking around the shelter. McGowan sends many who come through her office home to family, which she calls the preferred option. She sends some to hotels, as she did with Fantauzzi at first; and she sends some to addiction treatment programs. She estimated that about 90% of her clients have substance-abuse disorders. Fantauzzi said McGowan recommended he live in the hotel on his way out of the shelter. Although he was given increased freedom, he said he kept the good habits he had established at the shelter, and that the transition to his apartment helped him acclimate.
“This is what they teach you is routine, you know, that’s why there’s curfew, you’re here at six o’clock,” Fantauzzi said. “What’s out there after six o’clock? Nothing but bad stuff. You don’t need to be out there.”
By the time he got to the hotel, he “had the whole routine part down pat,” he said, adding that he was sure to be on his best behavior there because “they put me in a hotel so, like, I wasn’t gonna disrespect them like that.”
LOL. He’s totally not going to disrespect the nonprofit that’s paying for his free hotel room. He’s just gonna do drugs inside and go on a raping spree in Boston.
Although Fantauzzi is grateful for the assistance he has received from McGowan and others at Lowell Transitional Living Center, they both said his own hard work made his success possible.
“If you want to be lazy and you want to be in the street and you don’t really want to work it, then you’re not going to grow and you’re not going to get nowhere,” he said. “But if you work it, they’re here to help.”
Yea, listen to the rapist about how hard work will get you free hotel rooms from naive, but well-intentioned nonprofits, where you can do all the drugs you want and sexually assault junkies on meth mile on the weekends.
This is everything that is wrong with our media and our courts. People convicted of raping children in 2019 shouldn’t be released from jail in 2020, and the media shouldn’t be glorifying his “success story” because he conned a nonprofit into getting free room and board while he continued to rape people left and right. This guy clearly cannot be rehabilitated and will never keep his tiny member in his pants. He’s made it clear that as long as he is free he will rape innocent people, but yet our society bends over backwards to give him chances to “turn his life around.” He knows this, and will continue to exploit every second chance and handout he gets from judges and nonprofits. The question is, how many people will get raped before they finally figured him out and put him in jail for the rest of his life?
