NEW: Convicted Pedophile Richard Gardner’s House Vandalized
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Just a day after Providence police reportedly removed near-constant surveillance of convicted pedophile Richard Gardner’s home, the property was vandalized.
On Friday, Providence Chief of Police Hugh Clements confirmed to GoLocalProv.com that the Providence Police Department had been watching convicted pedophile Gardner.
"Yes we are still monitoring Gardner," said Clements on Friday afternoon. "Any further details [regarding costs], we'll have to get back to you [next] week."
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTAccording to police sources, the surveillance had been on a regular schedule and required the assignment and payment of Providence Police detectives at a cost of more than $160 per four-hour shift.
Gardner was released from prison last October.
According to sources, the police coverage ended this weekend. Then, on Saturday or early Sunday, a brick was thrown through Gardner’s window.
Photos by Latino Public Radio’s Reynaldo Almonte show the damage to the Washington Park home.
In 1988, Gardner kidnapped a boy in Warwick and sexually assaulted him on a ball field. That same day, he abducted a boy from a Warwick library and sexually assaulted him. Gardner, at the time of the two assaults, was on bail awaiting sentencing in Massachusetts for kidnapping and raping another child in the woods.
Gardner was released from the Massachusetts prison system in October 2018 after serving nearly 30 years.
Upon release, he moved to the house in the Washington Park neighborhood of Providence and began living with a woman who he married within weeks.
Neighbors of the Providence neighborhood were outraged at Gardner’s release and him being allowed to live in the neighborhood.
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