VIDEO: Protesters Turn Out in Opposition to Convicted Pedophile Gardner Living in Lincoln
GoLocalProv News Team and Reynaldo Almonte for Latino Public Radio
VIDEO: Protesters Turn Out in Opposition to Convicted Pedophile Gardner Living in Lincoln
In 1988, Gardner kidnapped a boy in Warwick and sexually assaulted him on a ball field.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThat same day, he abducted a boy from a Warwick library and sexually assaulted him.
Gardner, at the time of the two assaults, was on bail awaiting sentencing in Massachusetts for kidnapping and raping another child in the woods.
Gardner was released from the Massachusetts prison system in October 2018 after serving nearly 30 years.
Since his release he has lived in three locations in Rhode Island — first South Providence, then in Cranston, and now in Lincoln, at 18 Knowles Street.