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Former Suffolk prosecutor charged with raping a woman in a New York hotel room in 2017
By adamg on Tue, 08/16/2022 - 3:52pm
Update: Acquitted.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office today announced the indictment of former Suffolk County assistant DA Adam Foss on charges he raped a sleeping woman in a New York hotel room in 2017.
The Manhattan DA's office did not say if the case involves Raegan Sealy, who charged Foss raped her while she was asleep in his New York hotel room in October, 2017. However, the brief details in the office's statement matches what Sealy wrote when she went public with her accusation last year:
According to court documents and statements made on the record in court, on October 21, 2017, FOSS, a former prosecutor and public speaker, met the 25-year-old survivor at a Midtown hotel after exchanging calls and texts for approximately one month. After the survivor repeatedly said no to FOSS’s sexual advances, the two fell asleep, before FOSS allegedly raped the woman as she slept.
In her account of her encounters with Foss, who now lives in Los Angeles, Sealy wrote that after they first met, the two began a month-long correspondence via texts and calls that ended with her visiting him in his hotel room, where she found him to be miserable and drunk and where she told him she would not sleep with him, but agreed to cuddle with him - only to fall asleep in his bed until she was awakened by him forcing himself on her.
Then Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins hired the law firm of Goodwin Procter to investigate Foss's relations with women who worked in the Suffolk DA's office while he did, between 2008 and 2016. The firm concluded that while Foss may have been a cad toward two specific women in the office, he didn't rape anybody or break any other laws.
The New York indictment charges Foss with rape in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree.
Innocent, etc.
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Thank you for following up on this
It is for good reason anyone accused should be presumed innocent so it's how helpful to air the prior accusations? This is not diminish that very bad people routinely usurp positions which allow them to be cloaked with officialdom and legitimacy but which go on to abuse that power.
If it was, as it seems, the words of one person's recollection about events which the accused then feigned contrition, then why now?
Whatever spurred the interest in this rather than the many concerns pressing the "Hub" would be helpful to know or else it seems like it's just hyped for clicks (which I assume you'd be happy occurs and to be expected).
Not exactly "prior accusations"
Although the Manhattan DA's office is not releasing the victim's name, it seems pretty clear that it's the same woman who publicly accused him of rape last year, so it's the same case.
As to why this might be of interest in Boston, the guy worked as a prosecutor here for roughly eight years - and after the rape allegation first surfaced, the DA at the time hired an outside law firm to investigate his relations with women in the office. Kind of a big deal, which makes it news.
As for me just focusing on this story at the expense of other more noteworthy things, you might want to look at the home page and count up how many other stories I posted today that have nothing to do with this case.
Story corrected
I screwed up: The investigation by the law firm hired by Rollins was NOT about the 2017 rape case, but rather about his relations with women who worked for the Suffolk County DA's office while he did. I've corrected the story.