PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Cumberland man accused of arranging the rape of one little girl has been found guilty of molesting another 25 years ago.
A Superior Court jury found John E. Rainey, 54, guilty of two counts of first-degree, and one count of second-degree child molestation.
The girl, now a woman, came forward to Providence police in 2011 after reading media reports that Pawtucket police had charged Rainey with allowing a friend to rape an 11-year-old girl.
The woman told Detective Theodore Michael that Rainey had also molested her, starting in 1987 when she was 8, until she turned 13.
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin commended the woman's courage. "Her story should give other victims of sexual abuse the strength to come forward and be silent no more," Kilmartin said in a statement.