Wayland Patch 5/18/17: Framingham Man Not Guilty of Child Rape, Molestation Charges. Donald Gladu wiped away tears of relief after a Middlesex Superior Court jury on Thursday found him not guilty of raping and molesting a young girl over a period of eight years.
Wayland Patch 5/17/17: Victim ‘Lied’ About Child Rape Accusations, Defense Attorney Says. Accusing the alleged victim of being “angry and hurt” after learning a family secret, the attorney representing Donald Gladu told a Middlesex Superior Court jury on Wednesday that the alleged victim lashed out with false accusations that the now 61-year-old Framingham man raped and molested her as a child.
Wayland Patch 5/11/17: DA: Ex-Wayland DPW Foreman Accused of Eight Years of Child-Sex Abuse. From the time the alleged victim was age 5 until she was 12, the alleged sexual assaults by Donald Gladu were so frequent that each time he demanded sex, she became “like a robot,” prosecutor Rachel Perlman told a jury on Thursday.
Wayland Patch 5/10/17: Ex-Wayland DPW Foreman’s Child-Rape Trial Begins Thursday. A former longtime Wayland Department of Public Works foreman is scheduled to go on trial on Thursday charged with repeatedly raping a child starting when the girl was just 5-years-old.
