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Middleboro man charged in town's second stabbing in 2 weeks

Amelia Stern

The Enterprise

June 2, 2026,

A 32-year-old Middleboro man was arrested and charged with attempted murder Monday in connection with the town’s second non-fatal stabbing in less than two weeks, the Middleboro Police Department said in a statement.

Brandon Cain was arrested early Monday afternoon, June 1, after police say he stabbed another man during an overnight incident on Miller Street and later tried to flee from arresting officers.

Police were dispatched to a local hospital at about 2:56 a.m. Monday after a man suffering from stab wounds arrived at the emergency room. The victim’s injuries were described as serious but were not considered life-threatening, according to police.

As a result of an investigation, police identified Cain as the suspect. When officers attempted to take Cain into custody at a residence on Southwick Street on Monday, he allegedly tried to escape through a window. Police said officers deployed a Taser before placing him under arrest.

Once in custody, Cain was charged with assault with intent to murder, resisting arrest and five counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Police also determined that Cain had four outstanding default warrants on unrelated charges at the time of his arrest.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Wareham District Court.

Authorities have not released additional information about the circumstances surrounding the stabbing or the relationship between the suspect and victim.

Second stabbing in two weeks Middleboro man released from custody after alleged stabbing

Second stabbing in less than two weeks

Less than two weeks earlier, Jason Hancock, 43, of Middleboro, was arraigned in Wareham District Court Friday, May 22, on charges alleging his involvement in another stabbing at a home on Center Street, the Middleboro Police Department said in a statement.

Hancock and another man, Nicholas Bernier, 46, also of Middleboro, allegedly held a 35-year-old man against his will, assaulted him and stabbed him in the back of the head after an argument erupted during a small gathering, police said.

The victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. After an on-scene investigation, the two suspects were identified.

It is unclear at this time if the two stabbings are related in any way.

Reporter Amelia Stern can be reached by email at astern@enterprisenews.com. Follow her on X at @ameliarstern1.

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No jailtime for Middleboro woman charged with animal cruelty

Amelia Stern

The Enterprise

Updated March 24, 2026,

 

Seventeen neglected dogs living in unsanitary conditions, according to officials, were among pets removed from a condemned home on Precinct Street in Middleboro on Friday afternoon, Oct. 18, 2024.

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Middleboro Animal Control respond to 53 Precinct St. to execute an administration warrant as part of animal welfare investigation on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

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Middleboro Animal Control respond to 53 Precinct St. to execute an administration warrant as part of animal welfare investigation on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

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Middleboro Animal Control respond to 53 Precinct St. to execute an administration warrant as part of animal welfare investigation on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

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Seventeen dogs covered in filth' among pets removed from condemned home in Middleboro on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

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A Middleboro woman charged with animal cruelty after 26 living animals were found in deplorable conditions on her property, as well as the bodies of several deceased dogs, will avoid jailtime after she pleaded guilty to the charges Monday, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz’s office said in a statement.

Kimberly A. Savino, 44, of Middleboro, pleaded guilty Monday in Wareham District Court to 26 charges of animal cruelty by custodian, subsequent offense, in two separate but related criminal cases from 2024, the statement said.

She was sentenced to serve a total of six years of probation, which includes the condition she does not own any animals.

The charges stem from a lengthy investigation by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell (MSPCA), which began when officers found six significantly underweight horses under Savino’s care during a routine check in 2024, officials said.

Savino allegedly ignored the advice MSPCA officers gave her on how to better care for the horses, and after several months, investigators found she had continued to insufficiently feed and care for them.

After Savino canceled and rescheduled at least nine appointments to have the horses weighed and assessed, and after receiving complaints from neighbors, MSPCA officers and Middleboro Police executed a search warrant for her property on Precinct Street in October of 2024.

Officers found 17 dogs and two cats left in deplorable conditions in the basement of Savino’s home during the search, according to the DA’s office.

The dogs were found in crates covered in their own urine and feces and had not been given food or water for an extended period of time. Officers also located the remains of several deceased dogs in a freezer and in plastic boxes inside Savino’s garage, the DA's office said.

What happened to the animals? New details emerge in Middleboro animal cruelty case

All 26 living animals — including the six horses, two cats, 17 dogs and one guinea pig — were taken into custody of the MSPCA, and Savino was charged by two criminal complaints with animal cruelty.

She originally pleaded not guilty to 26 charges in November of 2024 at her arraignment in Wareham District Court, where she was released on personal recognizance, according to court records.

Savino’s case was scheduled for trial in April when she reversed course and pleaded guilty Monday.

This is not Savino’s first animal cruelty charge. In 2014, she was ordered to pay a $40,000 fine after she was charged with animal cruelty in Michigan.

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.)

Reporter Amelia Stern can be reached by email at astern@enterprisenews.com. Follow her on X at @ameliarstern1.

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'Tragic situation': 90-year-old dies in Middleboro's third fatal fire in two years ***CHECK YOUR SMOKE DETECTORS!****

 

'Tragic situation': 90-year-old dies in Middleboro's third fatal fire in two years

Amelia Stern

The Enterprise

Sept 2, 2025 

An elderly woman who died Monday, Sept. 1, in Middleboro's third fatal fire within two years, did not have working smoke alarms in her residence, officials said in a statement.

The fire that killed the victim, identified Tuesday as Anne Tichelaar, 90, of Middleboro, was likely caused by smoking materials, Middleboro Fire Chief Owen Thompson, Police Chief Robert Ferreira, State Fire Marshal Jon M. Davine and Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said in a joint statement.

The Middleboro Fire Department responded to reports of a fire at a two-story, multi-family home located at 72 Everett St. at around 2:52 a.m. Monday, Thompson said in a statement.

Upon arrival, fire crews found heavy fire with flames showing from multiple windows on the first floor.

Firefighters made entry into the home and found Tichelaar on the first floor. She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the statement.

“This was a tragic situation," Thompson said in the statement. "Unfortunately, this was the third fatal fire within two years in the Town of Middleboro," he said.

Thompson said fire crews did an excellent job aggressively extinguishing the heavy flames Monday, which could be seen from multiple windows on the first floor.

The flames were extinguished within 30 minutes, according to the statement.

Three other occupants of the residence escaped before firefighters arrived on scene and no additional injuries were reported.

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Fatal fire caused by smoking materials, preliminary investigation

Officials determined in a preliminary investigation that the fatal fire started accidentally with smoking materials in the first-floor living room.

Thompson warned residents that smoking is the leading cause of fatal fires in the state. Residents should always use a heavy ashtray with water or sand to put out smoking materials all the way, he said in a statement.

The origin and cause of the fire remain under investigation.

Fatal Middleboro fire December 2024 Middleboro man dies after being trapped inside burning home, victim identified

No working smoke alarms in home

According to the Department of Fire Services’ Code Compliance and Enforcement Unit, there were no working smoke alarms in the home.

“Working smoke alarms are your first line of defense in an emergency,” State Fire Marshal Davine said. “Please take a few minutes today to be sure you have them on every level of your home. Check the manufacturing date printed on the back of the device and replace it if it’s more than 10 years old. And test your alarms each month to be sure you and your loved ones are protected.”

3 fatal fires in less than 2 years

In February 2024, Jasmine Lane, a 12-year-old Middleboro middle schooler died in a house fire on Pearl Street, officials said.

In December 2024, Nathaniel Williams, 67, of Middleboro, died after he was trapped inside his burning home on Locust Street for 18 minutes, according to officials.

The Everett Street blaze Monday is the third fire fatality in the town in two years.

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'I will kill you': What happened inside Middleboro school when counselor assaulted student?

Amelia Stern

The Enterprise

June 14, 2025 

WAREHAM — A former counselor accused of slapping a 10-year-old autistic child at a special needs therapeutic school in Middleboro avoided jailtime after he pleaded guilty in Wareham District Court Thursday, June 12.

Steven Adamec, 51, of Attleboro, a former adjustment counselor at READS Collaborative, pleaded guilty Thursday to assault and battery and threatening to commit a crime.

Two felony charges, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a person with intellectual disabilities, were continued without a finding and will be dismissed if Adamec successfully completes a three-year probationary period.

His probationary conditions stipulate he not work with children under the age of 16 or who have disabilities, and that he stay away from and not contact the victim.

If Adamec breaks the conditions of his probation, he will be prosecuted on the two felonies, Sharkansky said in court.

What does 'continued without a finding' mean?

A continuance without a finding' is "the order of a court, following a formal submission and acceptance of a plea of guilty or an admission to sufficient facts, whereby a criminal case is continued to a date certain without the formal entry of a guilty finding," according to mass.gov. The continuance may include conditions "the violation of which may result in the revocation of the continuance, entry of a finding of guilty, and imposition of sentence" and "compliance with which will result in dismissal of the criminal case," according to mass.gov.

New details revealed in court: What happened inside the school?

On the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, Middleboro Police said they responded to READS Collaborative on Bedford Street after receiving reports an employee had assaulted a child at the school.

Several teachers who witnessed the incident said Adamec, who was employed as an adjustment councilor at the school, assaulted a 10-year-old during an altercation, Assistant District Attorney Emily Cross said.

One witness reported the child, who has autism, told Adamec to shut up and made comments about his physical appearance. Adamec responded, “You shut up,” according to Cross.

Cross then played two school surveillance videos for the court. The videos show Adamec sitting in a chair in the corner of the room while another staff member speaks with the victim, who appears agitated.

Adamec can be seen standing up, grabbing the child and dragging him out of the room. The footage picks up from a different angle, where Adamec can be seen slamming the child’s head into a doorframe as he tries to pivot him through.

In another room that did not have cameras, Cross said another teacher reportedly saw Adamec slap the child across the face. The witness heard Adamec say, “I’m not the one. I will kill you,” Cross said.

When the child tried to leave the room, Adamec blocked the doorway until another teacher helped the child to exit, Cross said. The 10-year-old was reportedly crying, had blood on the right side of his mouth and was holding his temple in pain, according to Cross.

'Someone he trusted and looked up to': Mom describes impact on disabled son

In court, Cross read a victim impact statement written by the 10-year-old’s mom. In the letter, the mother said this incident happened almost a year after the child’s father died.

“My poor son who was grieving gets assaulted by a grown man. Someone he trusted and looked up to,” the statement said. “This is a man who assaulted my young, innocent, disabled son and has been able to walk around without a care in the world.”

The mother of the victim said her son was hospitalized for about a year after the incident, reporting he was depressed and hopeless. With the time she had to spend with her son in the hospital, she said she lost her job and was forced to relocate her family to a different state to be with relatives, according to the statement.

What defense attorney Kevin Reddington says

Adamec was arrested at the school the day of the incident and booked at the Middleboro Police station, where he posted $500 bail. He originally pleaded not guilty to the charges in Wareham District Court.

Adamec was also terminated from his position at the school that day, according to his defense attorney Kevin Reddington.

Reddington called the claims his client slapped a child far from the truth and questioned how the incident could have possibly resulted in a lengthy hospitalization and relocation, as claimed by the mother in her impact statement.

Who is Steven Adamec?

Adamec is married with three kids and has no criminal record and no history of domestic violence, according to Reddington.

Adamec declined to speak with The Enterprise after the hearing. The READS Collaborate could not be immediately reached at the time of this article's publication.


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MIDDLEBORO SCHOOLS WIN APPEALS! 

THANK YOU MIDDLEBORO!

LIAM MORRISON LACKED THE EDUCATION & MATURITY TO FORM THIS 

OPINION  & HIS PARENTS MISLEAD HIM FOR THEIR PERSONAL DISINFORMATION....

PUBLIC SCHOOL IS NOT THE PLACE TO DISRUPT WITH YOUR WARPED VIEWS & 

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IF YOU WANT TO EDUCATE YOUR CHILD INTO A WARPED CULTURE, EITHER 

HOME SCHOOL HIM OR PAY FOR A PRIVATE SCHOOL THAT SHARES YOUR 

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Supreme Court doesn't take Middleboro 'only two genders' case. Why 2 justices wanted to

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday, May 27, to hear a Middleboro student’s free speech case two years after officials at Nichols Middle School asked then-seventh grader Liam Morrison to change out of a T-shirt that read “there are only two genders.”

Backed by the conservative legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), Morrison and his family filed a lawsuit against the school in May of 2023, claiming the school violated his First Amendment right to free speech.

“We’re disappointed the Supreme Court chose not to hear this critical free speech case,” ADF Senior Counsel and Vice President of U.S. Litigation David Cortman wrote in a written statement. “Our legal system is built on the truth that the government cannot silence any speaker just because it disapproves of what they say,” he wrote.

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito write dissenting opinions

Conservative justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas disagreed with the Court’s decision to deny the appeal, citing the Tinker v. Des Moines 1969 Supreme Court ruling that public school officials may not restrict a student’s freedom of speech unless behavior “materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others,” according to court documents.

“This case presents an issue of great importance for our Nation’s youth: whether public schools may suppress student speech either because it expresses a viewpoint that the school disfavors or because of vague concerns about the likely effect of the speech on the school atmosphere or on students who find the speech offensive,” Alito wrote in his dissenting opinion.

What did the majority say?

For the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case, at least four of the nine justices have to vote in favor of taking the case.

When the court votes against taking the case, as in this instance, the majority does not issue a written opinion explaining why.

Middleboro schools won every appeal

Last August, Morrison and Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a notice of appeal after the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled against Morrison in a preliminary injunction.

In June, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld that ruling, asserting that the school had enough grounds to ask Morrison to change his shirt due to its potential to cause psychological distress to other students.

School officials said that his shirt also violated the school's dress code, which bans clothing that could cause harm or damage to a "protected class of students" — kids who identify as transgender and are particularly at risk of bullying and suicide, in this case.

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Court sides with school that sent 7th grader home over ‘There Are Only Two Genders’ T-shirt

Elura NanosJun 10th, 2024, 12:19 pmUpdated Jun 10th, 2024, 

Left: Liam Morrison is pictured (screengrab via Alliance Defending Freedom); Right: a shirt like the one Morrison wore to school is shown. (Screengrab via CBS news).

A federal appeals court sided with a middle school that repeatedly sent a student home for wearing a shirt that was demeaning to students of some gender identities.

Liam Morrison, a 12-year-old student in Middleborough, Massachusetts, wore a T-shirt reading “There Are Only Two Genders” to seventh grade after his school held a Pride day and hung Pride flags in classrooms. School officials sent Morrison home on the grounds that his shirt targeted nonbinary students.

The following week, two people stood near the school’s bus drop-off area holding signs that read, “there are only two genders” and “keep woke politics out our schools.” Counterprotesters responded the next day with their own signs that read, “trans people belong,” “everyone is welcome here,” and “we support trans rights.”

The incidents drew the attention of local news media and the school reported receiving complaints from many parents about Morrison’s shirt and the controversy surrounding it.

Days later, Morrison returned to school wearing the same shirt, this time with the word “CENSORED” taped over the words “Only Two.” Morrison was again sent home from school.

Morrison, represented by conservative advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, sued and argued that school administrators at Nichols Middle School violated his First Amendment rights by refusing to allow him to wear the T-shirt.
The district court sided with the school and said, “students who identify differently … have a right to attend school without being confronted by messages attacking their identities.” It specifically said that while the 1969 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines famously held that neither “students [n]or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” that free speech is limited by the “rights-of-others” doctrine applicable in this case.

Additionally, the district noted that the school’s decision barring Morrison from wearing the taped shirt was made in a response to its forecast of disruption that would interfere with the rights of other students and with important considerations about the safety of its students.

Morrison appealed and during oral arguments, Deborah Ecker, the attorney representing Middleborough Public Schools, said that the school received several complaints about Morrison’s T-shirt, and that the message on the shirt would cause significant harm to students in the school who identify as transgender or nonbinary.

“It says to someone who is nonbinary that you do not exist, that your validity does not exist. And it attacks the very core characteristic,” Ecker told the court.

Morrison’s attorneys, on the other hand, argued that wearing a T-shirt was “the most passive way” to share his views on the same subject covered during Pride day. Morrison has also shared his views on other political topics via clothing since the “two genders” shirt incident, including T-shirts with messages such as “Don’t Tread on Me” and “First Amendment Rights.” He faced no disciplinary consequences for those clothing choices.

The school’s dress code required that, “Clothing must not state, imply, or depict hate speech or imagery that target[s] groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, or any other classification.” It also indicated that any apparel determined by the administration to be “unacceptable to [its] community standards” would not be allowed.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld that ruling Sunday and sided again with the district. Chief U.S. Circuit Judge David J. Barron wrote for the panel which included fellow Barack Obama appointee U.S. Circuit Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, and Joe Biden appointee U.S. Circuit Judge Lara Montecalvo.

Barron said that while it has held that Tinker’s rights-of-others limitation applies to cases of bullying, when there is “no physical invasion of any kind,” and the expression at hand is “passive and silent,” the law has “some uncertainty.”

Additionally, the district noted that the school’s decision barring Morrison from wearing the taped shirt was made in a response to its forecast of disruption that would interfere with the rights of other students and with important considerations about the safety of its students.

Morrison appealed and during oral arguments, Deborah Ecker, the attorney representing Middleborough Public Schools, said that the school received several complaints about Morrison’s T-shirt, and that the message on the shirt would cause significant harm to students in the school who identify as transgender or nonbinary.

“It says to someone who is nonbinary that you do not exist, that your validity does not exist. And it attacks the very core characteristic,” Ecker told the court.

Morrison’s attorneys, on the other hand, argued that wearing a T-shirt was “the most passive way” to share his views on the same subject covered during Pride day. Morrison has also shared his views on other political topics via clothing since the “two genders” shirt incident, including T-shirts with messages such as “Don’t Tread on Me” and “First Amendment Rights.” He faced no disciplinary consequences for those clothing choices.

The school’s dress code required that, “Clothing must not state, imply, or depict hate speech or imagery that target[s] groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, or any other classification.” It also indicated that any apparel determined by the administration to be “unacceptable to [its] community standards” would not be allowed.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld that ruling Sunday and sided again with the district. Chief U.S. Circuit Judge David J. Barron wrote for the panel which included fellow Barack Obama appointee U.S. Circuit Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, and Joe Biden appointee U.S. Circuit Judge Lara Montecalvo.

Barron said that while it has held that Tinker’s rights-of-others limitation applies to cases of bullying, when there is “no physical invasion of any kind,” and the expression at hand is “passive and silent,” the law has “some uncertainty.”

Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of U.S. Litigation David Cortman denounced the First Circuit’s ruling in a statement Monday and said the organization is currently considering whether to appeal.

“Students don’t lose their free speech rights the moment they walk into a school building,” said Cortman. “This case isn’t about T-shirts; it’s about a public school telling a middle-schooler that he isn’t allowed to express a view that differs from their own.”

Cortman further said said that the school “actively promotes its view about gender through posters and ‘Pride’ events, and it encourages students to wear clothing with messages on the same topic—so long as that clothing expresses the school’s preferred views on the subject.”

“Our legal system is built on the truth that the government cannot silence any speaker just because it disapproves of what they say,” Cortman concluded.

Counsel for the school district did not immediately respond to request for comment.

You can read the court’s full ruling here.

Editor’s note: This piece was updated to include comment from counsel.

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