Lynn sex offender has violent past

LYNN – A Level 3 sex offender who city officials are trying to force from his Lynn home served two years for kidnapping, beating and raping a teenage girl in 1998, according to Suffolk County Superior Court records.Richard Galzerano, 57, has caused a stir in the neighborhood around his home at 32 Daytona Road for reportedly violating the city?s sex offender ordinance by living within 1,000 feet of a school. He maintains the opinion that he has a legal right to live at that address.The Level 3 sex offender was charged as recently as 2008 for trying to entice a 14-year-old boy into his car in Revere and was sentenced to two years of probation, but that was far from the first time Galzerano had been in trouble with the law.According to court documents, a grand jury on Aug. 26, 1998 indicted Galzerano on charges of assault and battery, assault with intent to commit rape, aggravated rape, assault with a deadly weapon (a club), assault with intent to murder, kidnapping, and indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14. He pleaded innocent to the charges on Sept. 15 of that year and was released on $20,000 bail.Seven months later, Galzerano changed his plea to guilty on the charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of assault and battery and, on April 27, 1999, the court sentenced Galzerano to 18 months in the Suffolk County House of Correction and three years? probation, under which he was required to attend anger management counseling and attend psychiatric counseling.Before his probation ended on Dec. 31, 2003, though, Galzerano violated it multiple times for numerous reasons, including not reporting a change of employment or residence address, failure to complete psychiatric evaluation and possession of a firearm.According to a letter to the court from Commonwealth Center for Consultation and Psychotherapy, Galzerano did begin bi-weekly psychiatric consultation on July 29, 2002, though it is unclear how long the treatment lasted.A letter sent by Lynn City Solicitor Michael J. Barry on Tuesday morning told Galzerano, “Please accept this correspondence as a Notice to Move. You are hereby notified that you have thirty (30) days? to relocate to another address which is in compliance with the Ordinance.”Barry also told Galzerano that if he does not vacate Daytona Street within that period, the City of Lynn will fine him $300 for each day that he remains there, with the idea that the mounting cost would force him to leave, as the city cannot forcibly evict him. Barry ended the letter cordially, saying, “Thank you for your immediate attention to this important matter.”Galzerano also received a copy of the sex offender residency ordinance with the letter.City Council President Tim Phelan will hold a neighborhood meeting at 7 p.m. tonight at Shoemaker Elementary School to discuss the issue.This is the first time that the city has asked a homeowner to move because of a violation of Lynn?s sex offender ordinance, which is several years old.Taylor Provost can be reached at [email protected].