 [NYPOST] A Massachusetts registered sex offender freed on bail for rape is facing new charges after kidnapping and raping a woman when she tried to leave his home, police said.
Shawn McClinton, 39, was arrested on charges of aggravated rape, armed kidnapping with sexual assault and related counts after a woman told police she was forced at knifepoint to perform oral sex on him after meeting the Level 3 sex offender Tuesday on a Quincy street, the Boston Globe reports.
After meeting in Quincy, McClinton and the woman went to his home in the city’s Dorchester section, where he accused the woman of being an undercover police officer when she tried to leave early Wednesday, she told police.
McClinton, who was freed from jail three weeks earlier in a 2018 rape case in Suffolk Superior Court, then allegedly strangled and forced the woman to perform oral sex.
"Do you know what I could do to you?" McClinton told the woman, according to a police report obtained by the newspaper.
Boston Police Commissioner William Gross said he was "absolutely appalled" that McClinton, who was convicted of rape in 1994 and 2007, would be granted bail, particularly given his violent mostly peaceful history.
"We’re getting to a point in society where we’re giving more credence to criminals than victims," Gross told the newspaper. "We’re talking about violent mostly peaceful offenders. Why would you bail someone who committed rapes?"
The Massachusetts Bail Fund posted $15,000 to spring McClinton from custody, prompting criticism of the group by Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, the newspaper reports. 
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[NYPOST] A Massachusetts registered sex offender freed on bail for rape is facing new charges after kidnapping and raping a woman when she tried to leave his home, police said.