There are few more inspiring actions than witnessing a venerable institution alter course after having taken a contrary public position.
In politics, such a change is frequently dismissed as a "climb down." In religion, Catholics and others view it as a sublime example of courage and wisdom — if you will, a "rising up."
BOSTON — A decision made from a higher-up in law enforcement to strip lurid details from a State Police arrest report involving the daughter of a district court judge has now drawn the attention of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Governor Charlie Baker.
Allegations that an authority figure within either the State Police or the state judicial system admonished State Trooper Ryan Sceviour for including the alleged detail that an arrestee, Alli Bibaud, offered him sexual favors in exchange for leaving the scene of an accident she reportedly caused, first surfaced on Oct. 26 in the Worcester-based blog Turtleboy Sports. Sceviour wrote in his report that Bibaud, the daughter of Dudley District Court Judge Tim Bibaud, also told him she had provided an untold amount of sexual favors in order to land the heroin she had in her possession at the time of her arrest — a detail that was also scrubbed from the final report by as-of-yet-unknown persons.
