School Safety Officer Indicted On Child Rape Charges

LAWRENCE — School safety officer Tyrone Farrar has been indicted on three charges of aggravated rape of a child and one count of driving under the influence of drugs.

The indictments handed up by an Essex grand jury stem from allegations Farrar conducted an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 14-year-old Lawrence girl that began last July when she was 13.

Farrar, 30, of 48 Kingston St., has been held without bail since his arraignment in Newburyport District Court on Aug. 2.

Farrar was arrested in Salisbury at 1:17 a.m. July 31 after police there spotted his van being driven erratically on Lafayette Road. When they pulled the vehicle over they found the girl inside.

The girl told police she lied to her mother about staying at a friend’s house so she could be with Farrar, police said.

Earlier that morning they had tried to register at a motel in Salisbury, but Farrar only had $83 and the room cost $85 so they left. It was after they left the motel that police pulled Farrar’s van over.

According to the Salisbury police report filed in Newburyport District Court, both the girl and Farrar admitted during questioning to having had sex numerous times over the past year. Farrar also admitted to sneaking in through her bedroom window between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. to avoid detection by her family.

The girl told police she first kissed Farrar while in his van in Lawrence July 15, 2009 when she was 13 years old, and that they had “full sex” as many as 35 times since August 2009.

School officials were tipped off last year about suspicions that the Frost School security officer and girls basketball coach was having an inappropriate relationship with a female student.

Lawrence police and school officials investigated, but no charges were filed after Farrar, the girl and the girl’s mother all denied the relationship was sexual.

According to police reports filed in the case, the girl said she previously lied to the police because she did not want Farrar to be charged with statutory rape.

She told police they had sex in a variety of locations, including the Knotty Pine Motel in Salisbury, the back of his van, a cottage on Atlantic Avenue in Salisbury, and on two occasions in her first-floor bedroom at her Lawrence home.

She told police she loved Farrar and he loved her, and that he was trying to save money so he could buy a house for them to live in.

She told Lawrence investigators Farrar was her basketball coach, and she looked upon him as a father figure.

Stephen O’Connell, spokesman for the Essex District Attorney’s Office, said Farrar would likely be arraigned within the next few weeks in Superior Court.

Farrar was found to be a danger to the community during a hearing held a week after his arraignment and was ordered held without bail pending his trial.
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