A 51-year-old Westbrook, Maine, man with a brutal past was handed 25 months in federal prison for skipping out on one of the most basic obligations of a convicted sex offender: registration. Phillip Jordan, a convicted rapist and kidnapper, vanished into Springfield, Massachusetts, in 2015 without alerting authorities — a move that landed him back behind bars.
Jordan was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Springfield by Judge Mark G. Mastroianni, who imposed the 25-month term plus five years of supervised release. The charge? One count of failure to register as a sex offender, to which Jordan pleaded guilty in October 2016. The crime wasn’t violent this time — but it stemmed from a violent past that should have kept him on the radar.
In 1984, Jordan was convicted in York County Superior Court in Maine on charges of rape with a knife, gross sexual misconduct, and kidnapping. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and mandated to register as a sex offender for life. That requirement didn’t end when he walked free — it followed him across state lines.
Yet in August 2015, Jordan moved from Maine to Springfield, Massachusetts, and stayed in the area for two months. Despite knowing the law, he never registered as a sex offender in the state. Authorities say he actively avoided the system designed to monitor individuals with his history — a system meant to protect communities, especially children.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alex J. Grant and Katharine A. Wagner of U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz’s Springfield Branch Office. Ortiz and John Gibbons, U.S. Marshal for the District of Massachusetts, announced the sentencing. They emphasized that such violations aren’t technicalities — they’re threats to public safety.
This prosecution was part of Project Safe Childhood, the Justice Department’s nationwide push launched in 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation. The initiative combines federal, state, and local forces to hunt down offenders and rescue victims. Jordan’s case underscores how old predators can slip through the cracks — and why the system keeps watching.
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Key Facts
- State: Massachusetts
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: Official Source ↗
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