Commonwealth v. Dwight D.

In 1995, the Commonwealth lodged a series of delinquency complaints against the juvenile. The complaints were based on allegations that the juvenile, when he was between the ages of about eight and thirteen, committed numerous sexual assaults against his two half-sisters, including two counts of forcible rape as to one of them. In August of 1996, when the juvenile was fourteen years old, the cases were resolved through a so-called "Alford plea."2 Under the plea agreement, the rape charges were reduced to indecent assault and battery, the juvenile was found delinquent based on three counts of…