Commonwealth v. Leo

The defendant Roy Leo, a clergyman in his mid-fifties at the times charged, was convicted after jury trial on indictments for three separate sexual offenses against a fourteen year old girl whom he was counseling — indictments for assault and battery in the form of an offensive touching (G. L. c. 265, § 13A), and for two incidents of unnatural sexual intercourse with a female under the age of sixteen (G. L. c. 265, § 23). Based on the latter incidents, two indictments had been returned for unnatural and lascivious acts with a female under the age of sixteen (G. L. c. 272, § 35A). These…