Police Report: Bridgewater State Student Admits Raping 2 Boys
BRIDGEWATER (CBS) - A police report released Thursday revealed disturbing details about a Bridgewater State student charged with raping two young boys at a campus day care center.
Kyle Loughlin, 21, of Wrentham, is being held without bail. Campus police arrested him Wednesday and charged him with rape and assault and battery on a child.
Loughlin, an early childhood education major, worked at the Children's Center on campus two days a week for a year.
The police report indicates he allegedly began assaulting two boys between the ages of four and five a month ago and admitted to it.
The boys' parents first brought their concerns to the day care center, according to the report, saying their son asked them to "tickle me like Kyle does," and showed them inappropriate ways Loughlin had touched them.
Teachers say they raised this concern to Judy Ritacco, director of the Children's Center, and told police Ritacco said "keep this confidential and not to tell anyone."
In the police report, teachers indicate they had a bad "gut feeling" watching Loughlin interact with the children.
One teacher says she saw Loughlin touch a young boy's inner thigh and had to separate him from certain boys during nap time. That same teacher says she "felt sick" not reporting this to police but feared if she went over the director's head she would lose her job.
According to the police report, Loughlin admitted to investigators he has been sexually attracted to young boys since he was 17.
He allegedly said he knows what he did was wrong but that "it comes from a place of love" and that "the chemicals in his body made him do it."
Police say Loughlin also willingly showed them his dorm room where he allegedly stored more than 100 pairs of little boys underwear that he ordered off of eBay.
Investigators gave Loughlin the opportunity to write apology letters to the young boys' parents which he did.
He will be in court for a dangerousness hearing Monday.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Karen Twomey reports:
