Sex Offender Sentenced for Failure to Register

BOSTON - A North Grafton man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester today for failing to register as a sex offender.

Richard Sease, 50, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to four years in prison and 10 years of supervised release. On Jan. 30, 2017, Sease pleaded guilty to failure to register as a sex offender.

In 1993, Mr. Sease was convicted of multiple sex offenses, including two counts of assault with intent to rape and indecent assault and battery on a person over 16.  These offenses involved multiple victims, and as a result of these offenses, the defendant was designated a Level III sex offender and required to register for life. 

After his release from prison, Sease was again convicted of multiple violent crimes for which he served additional time in prison. In 2013, after his release from jail, Sease left Massachusetts and moved to Ohio, and then to Pennsylvania, where he lived until he was arrested in 2015.  Sease failed to update his sex offender registration when he left Massachusetts, and he never registered in Ohio or Pennsylvania. 

Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb and John Gibbons, U.S. Marshal of the U.S. Marshals Service, District of Massachusetts, made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Karin M. Bell of Weinreb’s Worcester Branch Office prosecuted the case.