A Massachusetts police officer charged with child rape is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday morning.
Shawn Souza, a former police officer in Dartmouth, was convicted Wednesday on two counts of aggravated rape of a child, one count of rape of a child by force and one count of indecent assault and battery of a person 14 or older, according to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office.
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He is scheduled to be sentenced at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Fall River Justice Center.
Souza was first accused of the crimes in 2019. The assaults happened before he became a police officer in 2008 and involved two children, though more specific details have not been released due to the sensitive nature of the case.
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