Female police officer is taken into custody on child rape charges days after being suspended
A female police officer in Massachusetts was arrested with her husband and charged with child rape after recently being suspended.
Plymouth Police Officer Samantha Pelrine, 31, and her husband, Daniel Forand, 37, were arrested at their home on Thursday, after allegedly raping a boy repeatedly starting when he was just 14 years old, according to court documents cited by the Boston Herald.
Pelrine faces three felony counts of aggravated child rape with force and one count of aggravated statutory rape of a child.
Forand was hit with 20 charges, including rape of a child, indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for crimes that allegedly occurred from 2018 to 2025, according to the accuser.
After their arrest, the couple pleaded not guilty at their arraignment in the Plymouth District Court, where a cash bail was set at $10,000 for Pelrine and $25,000 for Forand, which they posted.
Defense attorneys for the couple declined to comment after the proceeding.
The officer was recently placed on paid administrative leave on March 17 after the alleged victim disclosed the sexual abuse accusations in a handwritten affidavit, according to the New York Post.
'We are appalled and deeply disturbed by the allegations. We hold our officers to the highest of standards and expect them to uphold their sworn duty both on duty and off,' the Plymouth Police Department said in a statement.
Plymouth Police Officer Samantha Pelrine, 31, was arrested at her home on Thursday, after allegedly repeatedly raping a boy
Daniel Forand, 37, Pelrine's husband was also arrested and was charged with 20 charges, including rape of a child, indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for crimes that allegedly occurred from 2018 to 2025, according to the accuser
'Our primary mission is to safeguard the public's trust and uphold the law. We value human life, fairness, integrity, accountability, and professionalism. The conduct alleged is in violation of our values and of our basic principles as a police officer to serve and protect.'
The accuser, now in his twenties, said that his grandmother and aunt raised him untill he was 12 and was then handed over to his aunt's 'church friends Daniel Forand and Samantha Pelrine...' he wrote in an affidavit cited by the Boston Globe.
After a year, the couple became his legal guardians, and the alleged abuse began shortly after, continuing to 2025.
'Shortly after they became my guardians, they both sexually assaulted me until 2025 and physically assaulted me until 2026,' the alleged victim wrote.
He claimed that only the husband physically assaulted him.
The accuser moved out of the couple's home in Plymouth in February.
Jim Duffy, Plymouth Assistant District Attorney, said in court that, 'The allegations are that the sexual abuse started when he was 14 years old and continued up until last year, another term for that is "grooming."'
The police officer was pictured crying during her arraignment on Thursday afternoon where she pleaded not guilty
Forand also pleaded not guilty and his attorney argued that the accuser was a 'troubled young man' who made the allegations after the couple told him he needed to move out of their home
During the arraignment, Pelrine's attorney asserted that the alleged victim had previously made a false accusation of sexual assault against another person while in high school, according to CBS News.
Forand's attorney describes the alleged victim as a 'troubled young man' who made the allegations after the couple told him he needed to move out of their home.
'He had accused someone falsely of sexually inappropriate behavior when he was in high school,' said Pelrine's defense attorney Joseph Krowski Jr.
The officer and Forand are expected back in court on June 8 for a probable cause hearing.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Pelrine's and Forand's attorneys for comment.
