Child Rapist Wayne Chapman Now Living In Medford

MEDFORD, MA — A notorious Massachusetts sex offender is now living in Medford. Wayne Chapman was released from MCI-Shirley in 2019 after 40 years in prison. He was convicted in 1977 of luring two Lawrence boys into the woods and sexually assaulting them.

Chapman was initially sentenced to 30 years in prison and held longer after prosecutors argued for his continued incarceration as a "sexually dangerous person" in 2007. He petitioned for a review in 2018 and was determined by two psychologists to no longer be a danger.

That same year, he was accused of exposing himself to prison staff just days before his release. A Middlesex Superior Court later cleared him of those lewdness charges.

Chapman is now a resident of the Medford Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Boston 25's Bob Ward first reported. The Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry lists Chapman as a Level 3 sex offender and his home as 300 Winthrop Street, the facility's address.

Chapman is also suspected in the 1976 disappearance of 10-year-old Lawrence boy Andy Puglisi and admitted to molesting up to 100 boys in multiple states, the Boston Herald reported.

Chapman's attorney told Boston 25 that he's "at an age where sex offenders do not pose a risk to reoffend."