Parents Raped, Drugged Sons With Cocaine

A couple was convicted Friday of raping their four sons and drugging them with cocaine for a year in an ordeal that ended on Thanksgiving Day when one boy called 911.

Corby Adkinson, 40, was convicted of child rape, drug distribution, indecent assault and other offenses, while Nancy Adkinson, 35, was convicted of child rape, indecent assault on a child and drug possession.

Nancy Adkinson was acquitted of seven other charges, including assault and battery and rape of a minor. Earlier in the nonjury trial, 12 counts were dropped against her husband.

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Robert Barton could sentence the pair to up to life in prison on the child rape charge on June 19.

“You’ll never burn another kid again,” Nancy Adkinson’s former husband, Kenneth Bock, shouted as the couple were led from the courtroom.

Nancy Adkinson, of Lowell, had denied performing oral sex on her sons, now 12, 10 and 11-year-old twins, in 1995 and injecting the boys with drugs.

Syringes in the house were for medication for bee sting allergies, she said.

But a prosecutor pointed out that Nancy Adkinson also told police she pretended to have sex with the boys, and said there were traces of cocaine in the children’s blood.

The boys were taken away from their parents by the Department of Social Services on Thanksgiving Day 1995 when the oldest called 911.

The children testified against their parents at trial.

The Adkinsons’ attorney, George Murphy, said the state brainwashed the children into making up the charges, and argued there was no physical evidence of abuse, nor any reports from the children’s instructors.