Massachusetts foster parent sentenced to 10 years in prison for child rape

A Massachusetts foster parent was sentenced to prison for the 2015 rape of a 12-year-old child.

Heather Wright-Craft, 52, of Charlton, was sentenced to serve two concurrent prison terms of 10 years to 10 years and 1 day for two aggravated rape of a child convictions.

On Sept. 12, 2025, Wright-Craft was found guilty of one count of rape of a child, aggravated by age difference, and one count of rape of a child, aggravated by being a mandated reporter. The jury also found her not guilty of one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. After the delivery of the jury's verdict, Wright-Craft's bail was revoked, and she was taken into custody.

Wright-Craft was arrested and charged in Dudley District Court in August 2017 and indicted in Worcester Superior Court in March 2018.

The victim, who is now an adult, is incarcerated on unrelated charges, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Ayres told The Telegram & Gazette . But Ayres told the newspaper that the victim wanted Wright-Craft to get treatment and "didn't feel that jail benefits or helps anyone."

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