BOSTON, July 20, 2015—An alleged serial rapist who eluded capture for nearly a decade has been ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing next week, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.
ALEJANDRO DONE (D.O.B. 9/13/86) of the South End was arraigned in South Boston Municipal Court today on one count of aggravated rape and two counts of assault and battery in connection with a 2006 sexual assault in Joe Moakley Park. At the request of Assistant District Attorney David Deakin, Judge Michael Bolden ordered Done held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing under Ch. 278, Sect. 58A, of the Massachusetts General Laws, which allows a judge to hold a defendant accused of certain offenses without bail for up to 90 days pending trial upon “clear and convincing evidence that no conditions of release will reasonably assure the safety of any other person or the community.” That hearing is scheduled for July 27.
Done is next scheduled to appear in Boston Municipal Court on Thursday for arraignment in connection with a subsequent assault that occurred on the Esplanade on July 29, 2007.
The July 29, 2006, attack was the first in a series of assaults in which Done allegedly targeted women walking or jogging alone late at night, primarily on weekends, during the summer months. Deakin told the court that in the 2006 assault, Done allegedly approached a 30-year-old woman walking along Morrissey Boulevard and violently assaulted her. The victim was able to provide Boston Police with a description of her assailant and underwent an examination during which DNA evidence was collected.
State Police criminalists recently matched that DNA profile to Done, who was arrest last year in another sexual assault in Cambridge. He is currently held without bail while that case remains pending in Middlesex County.
Done ay also face charges in connection with similar assaults committed on the Esplanade on June 16, 2007, and about midnight on July 13 into July 14, 2009, and an attack near Preble Circle on June 13, 2010.
Anne Kelley-McCarthy is the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Done is represented by Tim Bradl.
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