Malden Sex Offender Indicted on Child Rape, Human Trafficking Charges

Photo: Thomas V. Rose. Credit: Sex Offender Registry Board

A Level 3 sex offender from Malden was indicted last week on child rape and human trafficking charges.

Thomas V. Rose, 62, of 392 Pleasant St., No. 1, was indicted Wednesday, Oct. 22, on one count of aggravated rape of a child, one count of rape of a child, two counts of human trafficking of a minor and two counts of enticement of a child, according to a joint release from the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office and Winthrop Police Department. Rose was also indicted as a habitual offender, as he was convicted of one count of rape in 1975 and one count of assault with intent to commit rape in 1988.

Rose was arraigned Friday in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, and his bail was set at $250,000, according to the release.

The investigation into Rose began this summer after Winthrop Police found him in an SUV in a parking lot after 11 p.m. with a 22-year-old woman and two teenage girls, who were 14 and 15.

One of the girls told police that Rose had given them marijuana and alcohol and had sought to engage in sexual conduct with them. Because of this accusation, Rose was charged with child enticement in early August. An ensuing investigation discovered that Rose had supplied the girls with cash and marijuana, sought to recruit them into commercial sexual activity and sexually assaulted the 15-year-old victim.

Rose is due back in court Dec. 2.