Methuen child rapist nabbed in Maine after fleeing trial
Police have nabbed the child rapist who fled during the middle of his trial last month.
Stephen Corbin Jr., 38, of Methuen, was located at a residence in Farmingdale, Maine, Friday morning. Authorities said that they received a tip to this location after they issued a call for help Tuesday.
Corbin cut off his courtordered GPS monitoring bracelet somewhere along North Street in Andover after the third day of his six-day trial in April, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.
He was convicted April 14 in his absence of eight counts of aggravated rape of a child for sexually assaulting two teenage girls who were known to him — one 15 and the other 14 years old — multiple times both at a residence in Lexington and a motel in Bedford.
The DA said he plied the girls with drugs and alcohol before raping them during the events of 2016 and 2017.
He had hired the younger of the two as a babysitter, according to court documents, and continued to hang out with her outside that working relationship and supply her with drugs and alcohol and demanded sex in return, or what he termed a “favor for a favor,” according to court documents. The older of the two was a friend of the younger one.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Maine Violent Offenders Task Force, working on information provided by Massachusetts State Police, went to the Farmingdale address and found the fugitive pulling up as a passenger in a car. They allege that he was carrying a loaded firearm at the time.
Maine authorities have issued new charges against Corbin of being a fugitive from justice and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Middlesex DA Marian Ryan is arranging his rendition back to Massachusetts, her office announced, so he can be sentenced on the child rape charges.
His sentencing is scheduled for Thursday.