MASSACHUSETTS
Brockton Enterprise
By Erik Potter
Enterprise Staff Writer
Posted Jun 26, 2012
EASTON —
“I want people to know that they are safe from Paul Hawksley.”
The child that Hawksley repeatedly and forcibly raped eight years ago has been waiting years to be able to say that.
After coming forward in 2010 with his story of sexual abuse at the hands of an Easton church youth leader, the young man, whose name is not being published because he is the victim of a sex crime, has watched the criminal case against Hawksley wend slowly through the justice system.
When he heard the verdict on Monday – guilty on all counts – he cried.
“I was in tears. I was overjoyed,” he said in a phone interview with The Enterprise. “I’m working on putting back the pieces and getting my life back together. This gets me a lot closer. Closure is what I’m feeling now.”
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