New Haven, East Haven Police Charge Meriden Man With Child Rape

New Haven CT

19 January, 2022

3:53 PM

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NEW HAVEN, CT —A 60-year-old Meriden man was charged by both East Haven and New Haven police with first degree sexual assault of a child older than age 2 and younger than age 13, police logs and courts records show. Salvatore Ferraro was also charged with several other sex crimes and crimes against children, police said, and court records show. Due in court later this month, Ferraro's being held on a combined $350,000 bail on both cases; $200,000 on the East Haven case and $150,000 on the New Haven case. The sexual assaults occurred in January 2017, in the New Haven police case, and beginning January 2010 in the East Haven police case, judicial records show. In August 2021, New Haven police reached out to East Haven police, noting they were investigating a juvenile sex assault case. During New Haven's investigation, they learned that some sexual assault crimes reported to them happened in East Haven over the course of around seven years, East Haven police Capt. Joseph M. Murgo told Patch. Immediately after learning of the allegations, he said, a forensic interview with a Licensed Clinical Social Worker was conducted at the Yale Child Sexual Abuse Clinic. As a result of the interview, lead investigator EHPD Det. Joe Carangelo learned Ferraro had sexually assaulted then child for years at his Thompson Avenue home. Murgo said Carangelo's investigation found Ferraro "would create opportunities to be alone with the victim before committing the sex assaults, which varied in degree." Ferraro is currently an inmate at the New Haven Correctional Center. In the Jan. 14 East Haven police case he's charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child older than 2 and younger than 13, with a special circumstance per state statutes: that "in the commission of such offense with intent to disfigure the victim seriously and permanently, or to destroy, amputate or disable permanently a member or organ of the victim's body, such person causes such injury to such victim." East Haven police also charged Ferraro with risk of injury to a minor/impairing the morals of a child, and fourth-degree sexual assault. Murgo said that at the time charges were filed, Jan. 14, Ferraro was already in police custody in the New Haven case. In the New Haven police case, Ferraro is also charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child older than 2 and younger than 13, and with illegal sexual contact with the victim.