A New Hampshire man convicted of focusing on girls alongside Mass and Cass in Boston and raping them has been sentenced to as much as 34 years in state jail.
Maxwell Newman, 25, was convicted by a Suffolk County jury final month of 4 counts of rape, three counts of assault and battery, two counts of assault to rape, and one depend of assault and battery with a harmful weapon.
On Monday, Suffolk Choose Debra Squires-Lee imposed a sentence of 28 to 34 years in state jail, adopted by 5 years of probation — noting Newman’s “repeated acts of violence, deliberate targeting of vulnerable women and degrading treatment” of the victims.
On April 20, 2023, Newman was driving within the space of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard when he approached the primary sufferer. Newman introduced the girl to a secluded car parking zone at 128 Gerard St., and raped her.
Then on June 12 at about 1:30 a.m., Newman was once more driving within the space of Mass and Cass when he approached the second sufferer exterior a Sunoco gasoline station. He supplied to pay the sufferer $120 and introduced her to the identical Gerard Road car parking zone, regardless of the sufferer’s request to go elsewhere.
Newman grabbed the sufferer and smashed her head on the bottom. Newman then raped her and advised her to “pretend like you like it.” The sufferer reported the crimes to the police, and was taken to a neighborhood hospital.
Later that very same night, Newman returned to the realm of Mass and Cass and approached the third sufferer and invited her into his automobile. Newman drove her round Boston, then to his house in New Hampshire, after which to a car parking zone in Pemberton State Park.
Two fishermen have been strolling again to their automotive after they heard the sufferer screaming, and noticed Newman on prime of her. The sufferer was bleeding with recent swelling, bruises and abrasions to her face. The sufferer reported being punched within the face, crushed and raped, however didn’t combat again as a result of she feared for her life.
Detectives have been in a position to determine Newman by means of video footage exhibiting him getting into and exiting the state park in his Kia Forte. Video obtained from the automotive’s sprint digital camera and Newman’s cellphones additionally corroborated a few of Newman’s interactions with the victims.
Detectives later obtained a CODIS hit indicating that DNA from the primary two assaults have been from the identical perpetrator. A DNA pattern obtained by way of court docket order after Newman’s June 24, 2023 arrest for the third rape linked him to the DNA recovered within the first two rapes.
