Sex Offender Sentenced for Failing to Register in Massachusetts

BOSTON – A Brockton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for failing to register as a sex offender. 

Charles Towers, 52, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to two years in prison and five years of supervised release.

Towers is required to register as a sex offender based on a 2009 conviction in San Diego Superior Court of attempted forcible oral copulation. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.     

After serving his sentence, Towers registered as a sex offender in California. In April 2014, Towers moved from San Diego to Brockton and failed to both notify the San Diego Police Department’s Sex Offender Unit of his change of address and to register as a sex offender with the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board, as he was legally required to do. 

Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb and U.S. Marshal John Gibbons of the District of Massachusetts made the announcement today.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Soivilien of Weinreb’s Major Crimes Unit is prosecuting the case.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood.  In 2006, the Department of Justice created Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from exploitation and abuse.  Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as identify and rescue victims.  For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov/.