50- yrs old man, who was released from jail after 30 years for a flawed rape conviction, is arrested for rape after cops find him asleep on the sidewalk with his head between the legs of a woman who had overdosed on heroin

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50- yrs old man, who was released from jail after 30 years for a flawed rape conviction, is arrested for rape after cops find him asleep on the sidewalk with his head between the legs of a woman who had overdosed on heroin

A Massachusetts man, who spent 30 years in prison for a rape he claimed he didn't commit, has been arrested in another rape case. 

George Perrot, 50, is accused of raping an unconscious woman on a sidewalk in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on January 4 - less than three years after he was exonerated in a 1985 rape case.

He is expected to be arraigned in Essex Superior Court Monday. He faces charges of rape, assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, and open and gross lewdness. 

He pleaded not guilty in the Lawrence rape case at his arraignment on January 7. A grand jury indicted him on the charges in March and the case was moved to Essex Superior Court.

In the January incident, cops reportedly found him and the woman unconscious and partially clothed on the street. He was found with his face in between her legs. 

When cops nudged Perrot awake, he became aggressive and charged at the officer, leading the officer to use his baton on Perrot to subdue him.

The woman had overdosed on heroin and was revived with Narcan. She told police she last remembered Perrot offering her a powdery substance and encouraging her to snort it, according to The Republican. 

She said she didn't consent to sex before losing consciousness. She said she knew Perrot but they were not in a 'dating relationship'. 

Perrot spent 30 years behind bars after he was convicted of raping a 78-year-old woman in Springfield in 1985 when he was 17. 

In that incident he was charged with indecent assault and battery, rape and burglary after he allegedly broke into the woman's home on October 30, 1985. 

He was arrested five weeks later, charged with two separate break-ins. He admitted to one of them, but not assaulting the 78-year-old woman.  

He maintained he was innocent and wrongfully convicted.  

He was freed in 2016 after he was granted a new trial and the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled he was wrongly convicted on flawed testimony about microscopic hair evidence found on the woman's bed sheet. 

He was released in February 2016.  

His release was thanks to the work of The Innocence Project, a program at the Cardozo School of Law that seeks to exonerate the wrongly convicted and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. 

'Originally sentenced to life in prison, for a horrific Springfield rape, which was negated in 2016 by a superior court judge granting a new trial. He just re-offended in Lawrence,'  Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni wrote on Facebook. 

'Regrettably, there is another victim who has now allegedly suffered at his hands, three decades later,' Gulluni added.  

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