A homeless man who was first convicted of sexual assault in 1993 videotaped himself raping a 6-year-old boy in 2015 in Concord, according to dozens of indictments handed up by a grand jury last month.
Gary Chalifoux, 45, was indicted in February at the Merrimack County Superior Court on 46 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, felonious sexual assault, manufacture of child pornography and failure to register as a sex offender.
The charges cite numerous videos that Chalifoux allegedly recorded. The digital file names of those videos include dates that indicate they were recorded over a span of at least six months.
But the indictments cast a wider net, alleging each of the 46 counts – including five for aggravated felonious sexual assault, the strictest sex crime on New Hampshire’s books – occurred on or between Jan. 5, 2015, and May 2, 2016.
Chalifoux is accused of touching the victim for his own sexual gratification and using the boy for oral sex, according to the indictments. He was arrested in Manchester and arraigned at Concord’s district court in mid-December, when he was ordered held on $360,000 cash bail.
Concord police Lt. Sean Ford told WMUR that Chalifoux came into contact with a child while “couch-surfing” around Concord.
“There were other people there that had children, and he was able to form a relationship with that child,” Ford told the TV station.
Chalifoux became a registered sex offender when he was convicted in Hillsborough County Superior Court in 1993, according to the indictments. He failed to report two online aliases as required in December.
An indictment is not an indication of guilt; rather, it’s a reflection that a grand jury deemed the prosecution had enough evidence to proceed to trial.
Chalifoux is scheduled to be arraigned March 13 at 8:30 a.m. at the Merrimack County Superior Court on a total of 56 charges, according to court staff. He’s being held at the county jail.
(Nick Reid can be reached at 369-3325, nreid@cmonitor.com or on Twitter at @NickBReid.)