GORHAM – Arrested in Gorham in March, a convicted serial rapist in Massachusetts who fled 34 years ago faces sentencing in two weeks.

Gary A. Irving, 52, is scheduled to be sentenced at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., according to David Traub, a spokesman for the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Irving had been convicted of three counts of rape, kidnapping and unnatural acts in 1978, according to police reports. After the trial, he had been released by a Massachusetts judge to return home, but he disappeared before sentencing.

Authorities said Irving had been a fugitive since June 29, 1979, when a default warrant was issued. Police said Irving was located, after years of a massive manhunt, living under an alias in Gorham.

Traub declined on Tuesday to disclose the sentence that the office of Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey would seek.

“We present it to the judge first,” Traub said on Tuesday.

A Norfolk Superior Court spokeswoman said on Tuesday that Elizabeth Billowitz, a criminal defense lawyer with the Denner Pellegrino law firm in Boston, represents Irving. Billowitz could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.

Irving was arrested on March 27 at his home on South Street in Gorham, where police said he had been living as Gorham resident Gregg A. Irving, who married and had children. Irving was known as a good neighbor.

After Irving in April waived an extradition hearing in a Portland court, Massachusetts troopers returned him to Massachusetts.

Gary A. Irving