BOSTON, July 18, 2018—The serial rapist who attacked at least three women along the Esplanade and in South Boston between 2006 and 2010 was sentenced to prison today after two of his victims told a judge that the assaults still disrupt and affect their daily lives, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

ALEJANDRO DONE, 49, pleaded guilty on June 7 to indictments charging two counts of aggravated rape, one count of rape, one count of assault with intent to rape, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of armed robbery, reflecting attacks on three women in 2006, 2007, and 2010. Done changed his plea at what had been scheduled for a status hearing in advance of his trial.

At a sentencing hearing in Suffolk Superior Court today, Assistant District Attorney Amy Martin of Conley’s Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Unit recommended a term of 25 to 30 years in state prison followed by 10 years of probation, with that term to begin only after his release from the 10- to 12-year prison term he is currently serving on a 2015 Middlesex County rape conviction.

After hearing from two survivors of Done’s assaults, Judge Janet sanders imposed a sentence of 18 to 22 years in prison followed by five years of probation, to run concurrent with the Middlesex sentence.

“The victims in this case said something we hear all too often in sexual assault cases,” Conley said. “They blamed themselves, or believed others would blame them, for the assailant’s conduct. We as a society have to challenge the outdated misconception that any victim is asking for trouble and place the blame where it belongs – on the perpetrator alone. And men in particular have to stand up to condemn sexual assault and make no excuses for violence against women.”

Had the case proceeded to trial, Suffolk prosecutors would have introduced evidence and testimony proving that Done was the unknown assailant who attacked women in Boston during late-night sexual assaults during the summer months between 2006 and 2010.

Specifically, they would have sought to prove that Done attacked a 30-year-old woman who was walking in the area of Morrissey Boulevard near the JFK/UMass MBTA station in the early morning hours of July 29, 2006; a 20-year-old woman walking near the Esplanade exactly one year later in the early morning hours of July 29, 2007; and a 23-year-old woman walking in the area of Preble Circle in South Boston in the early morning hours of June 13, 2010. Done was additionally indicted for attacking a 20-year-old woman jogging along the Esplanade on the night of June 16, 2007; the victim in that case returned to her native country shortly after the assault was not expected to be available for trial.

The assaults were investigated by the Suffolk County State Police Detective Unit, Boston Police Sexual Assault Unit, and the chief of the DA’s Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau. Despite their repeated efforts to identify the assailant through police sketches, computer-assisted composite images, appeals for witnesses, and plainclothes surveillance, Done remained unknown and at large until 2015. That year, a DNA profile from one of the assaults matched Done’s DNA profile, which had been uploaded to the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, in the course of a Middlesex County investigation.

Sexual assault can happen to anyone. While the victims of any crime are asked to call 911 in an emergency, survivors of sexual violence can also call their local rape crisis center for free and confidential services and to discuss their options. Support is available for all survivors of sexual violence, regardless of whether they wish to take part in a criminal prosecution. Services by city and town can be found through Jane Doe Inc. at www.janedoe.org/find_help/search. Jane Doe Inc. is a coalition of 60 local member programs working together to find lasting solutions that promote the safety, liberty, and dignity for victims and survivors of sexual and domestic violence.

In Suffolk County, the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center offers a free and confidential 24-hour hotline at 800-841-8371. The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center provides medical accompaniment and many other free services to victims of rape and sexual assault. Suffolk victim-witness advocates can assist in referrals to BARCC and a wide array of non-profit service providers who can offer additional support and services.

Anne Kelley-McCarthy was the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Done was represented by attorney Timothy Bradl.

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