Hopkinton Man Convicted of Sex Crime
On Monday, George Scandalis pleaded guilty to two charges stemming form a 2010 incident and must register as a sex offender.
On Monday, Dec. 19, Hopkinton resident George Scandalis pleaded guilty to indecent assault and battery of a person over the age of 14 and enticing a minor.
The charges stemmed from an incident that occurred in Worcester in August of 2010. According to a story in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette from that summer, Scandalis asked a young boy if he could use his cell phone. When Scandalis was using the phone, he asked the boy to sit inside the vehicle with him and the boy agreed.
According to Worcester County District Attorney Spokesman Tim Collins, Scandalis, who lives at 8 Schofield Rd., will serve two years of probation.
“The District Attorney’s Office asked for a six month prison sentence followed by one year of probation but the judge chose to sentence him to two years of probation,” Collins said.
The terms of Scandalis’s probation are that he must wear a GPS at all times, cannot have unsupervised contact with children under the age of 16 and must participate in sex offender counseling. Scandalis must also register as a sex offender.