Gene gomes new bedford police

NEW BEDFORD — Jean Gomes, a former New Bedford police officer convicted in 2017 of abusing a child, is out of prison and living in Florida, according to state agencies.

Gomes, now 64, was released from a Massachusetts prison in September without parole, said Kate Silvia, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, in an email.

Gomes was initially sentenced in Superior Court in June 2017 to a mandatory minimum of 10 years in state prison after a jury convicted him of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 by a mandated reporter.

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Mandated reporters are required by law to report suspected child abuse or neglect to the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.

Mandated reporters include teachers, social workers, doctors and police officers.

The victim, who was known to Gomes, testified that the former office