Commonwealth v. Blake

(concurring, with whom Spina and Cowin, JJ., join).

Background. The facts underlying this appeal are not in dis*269pute. The defendant is a sex offender who was convicted in 1995 after entering guilty pleas to two indictments, one charging rape of a child under sixteen years of age and the other charging indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen years of age. He was sentenced to two and one-half years to be served in a house of correction and, thereafter, to a suspended sentence of from three to five years in the State prison, and five years’ probation. On August 31, 1998, the…