A Massachusetts man who raped his 11-year-old daughter in 2010 and has since been serving a life sentence in prison was denied parole.
Davidson Bourdeau was convicted on Dec. 7, 2011 of two counts of aggravated rape of a child and rape of a child with force.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, along with a two and a half year sentence on a charge of assault and battery to be served concurrently and two 10-year probation sentences.
Bourdeau raped his daughter repeatedly over two months after she’d traveled from her mother’s to stay with him for the summer of 2010, according to the parole board’s decision filing.
The assaults began about two weeks after the 11-year-old child arrived and he threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
At one point over the summer, the child told Bourdeau that she’d told her mother what he was doing to her. Bourdeau put her in his car, drove her to a “dark place,” hit her and told her he was going to choke her to death, the filing read.
The child then told Bourdeau that she had been joking and hadn’t actually told her mother, or anyone else, about the rapes.
It was August 2010 when the child told her mother’s friend what was happening. The friend encouraged the child to call the police and use her phone to make recordings to prove the rapes.
The child recorded a conversation she had with Bourdeau and sent it to her mother’s friend, who then forwarded it to the Department of Children and Families (DCF).
Finally, on Sept. 6, 2010, the child was removed from Bourdeau’s home by DCF and underwent a sexual assault examination that revealed the presence of his DNA on her genital area.
Bourdeau has continued to maintain his innocence and did so before the Parole Board on July 10. During his time in prison, he has received five disciplinary reports and board members felt he lakes “insight into his behaviors,” read its decision dated Nov. 20.
Bourdeau was told to start engaging in rehabilitative efforts. Middlesex County Assistant District Attorney Casey Silvia testified in opposition and the Board was in unanimous decision against Bourdeau’s parole at this time.
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