Convicted Child Rapist Who Disappeared During Trial Found In Maine

METHUEN, MA — A Methuen man convicted of child rape last month who fled during his trial has been found and arrested in Maine, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said over the weekend.

Stephen Corbin, 38, of Methuen, disappeared on the third day of his trial for raping both a 14 and 15-year-old girl on multiple occasions. The assaults took place at both a Lexington residence and a motel in Bedford in 2017.

On April 14, Corbin was convicted on eight counts of aggravated rape of a child during a trial. Police say Corbin cut off his GPS monitoring device and took off after the third day of his six-day trial.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan issued an alert asking for police and the public's help in finding Corbin earlier last week, but attempts were futile. Eventually, police were able to find him Friday at a home in Farmingdale, Maine with help from the US Marshals Service.

Once investigators linked Corbin to the home in Farmingdale, investigators showed up at the scene and noticed a car pulled up with Corbin in it as a passenger, officials said. Marshals and officers approached the car, arrested Corbin, and then found a loaded firearm on him.

Corbin was charged as a fugitive from justice and as a felon in possession of a firearm by Maine police. He is currently being held at the Kennebec County Jail in Augusta and will return to Massachusetts where he will be sentenced on the child rape conviction on May 12.

Corbin had been set free on a $25,000 bail with a condition to wear a GPS monitoring bracelet, stay away from the victims and obey a curfew that only allowed him to go to work since his arraignment in 2017.

Investigators later found he took off his GPS bracelet on North Street in Andover before he disappeared.

Corbin could be facing life in prison.