A Charlton woman was sentenced to a decade in prison Tuesday for raping a 12-year-old child, prosecutors announced.

Heather Wright-Craft, 52, was found guilty Sept. 12 of one count of rape of a child, aggravated by age difference, and one count of rape of a child, aggravated by being a mandated reporter, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office. Wright-Craft was found not guilty of a count of aggravated assault and battery on a child under 14.

Wright-Craft was sentenced in Worcester Superior Court to two concurrent prison terms of 10 years to 10 years and 1 day for the two rape charges, court records show.

The rapes occurred in Charlton in 2015 while Wright-Craft was a foster parent for the victim, according to prosecutors. She was arrested and charged in Dudley Dist

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