Police: missing girls were to be sold for sex

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities say three missing teenage girls from Massachusetts who were found in Rhode Island were kidnapped for a day by a man who allegedly planned to prostitute them.

Providence police said the girls were found Thursday night after one of them escaped from an apartment and called for help.

Twenty-one-year-old Derek Miranda of the Dorchester section of Boston was charged with kidnapping and sex trafficking. It’s not clear if he has a lawyer.

Officers said the two other girls were 14 and 15 years old. Authorities say two girls were returned to their parents and the other was turned over to Massachusetts child welfare officials.

Police say Miranda drove the girls against their will from Randolph, Massachusetts, to Providence on Thursday. Police say the girls were not prostituted.

Ex-prosecutor

gets probation

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A former Massachusetts prosecutor who authorities say sold confidential law enforcement to his drug supplier to feed his oxycodone habit has been sentenced to five years of probation.

Thirty-five-year-old Stephen Gilpatric was sentenced Friday in Middlesex Superior Court after pleading guilty to charges including unlawfully communicating criminal offender record information. He also admitted receiving an unlawful $1,500 payment from a woman who wanted her son’s driver’s license restored.

Gilpatric worked in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office from 2007 until October.

Gilpatric’s attorney, Melinda Thompson, said Gilpatric became addicted to prescription drugs and is now seeing a psychiatrist for addiction and depression.

Prosecutors said Gilpatric was spending hundreds of dollars a week on oxycodone. Thompson said Gilpatric has since beat the habit.