An Uber driver with a legal historical past of sexual violence is accused of raping or assaulting at the very least three ladies he picked up in Boston — and warrants point out his DNA profile could also be linked to 2 extra unsolved rape circumstances, all from 2017.
“I was raped in an Uber,” one alleged sufferer informed a Boston EMT after police for a Boston University scholar first responded to a name that listed the sufferer as a “depressed student on the roof,” in keeping with a police report.
The pretend Uber driver in that alleged rape, in keeping with three warrants for 3 separate incidents issued out of Boston Municipal Court, is William Mancortes, 43, of Hyde Park. Boston Police arrested him at round 8 a.m. Friday and he’s anticipated to be arraigned on the fees in courtroom on Monday.
The BPD related the circumstances collectively due to their Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. The company utilized for and gained a $2.5 million federal grant to increase its capability to unravel sexual assault circumstances.
Mancortes was additionally wished out of Quincy District Court for one rely of aggravated rape and one rely of kidnapping
In the primary warrant, the earlier-quoted alleged sufferer mentioned she was picked up by what she believed to be her Uber driver in entrance of a bar on the primary block of South Market Street within the space of Faneuil Hall on Jan. 15, 2017.
She informed police that she was raped as soon as she received in. She had a rape equipment examination carried out at Beth Israel Hospital that very same day, police say.
Three months later got here an analogous story. On April 15, 2017, one other alleged sufferer informed Boston police that she was at an MIT occasion the night time earlier than, which she left at round 1 a.m. and proceeded to stroll over the Massachusetts Avenue bridge — usually known as Harvard Bridge — towards residence in Boston. At the opposite facet of the bridge, she entered an unknown automobile, in keeping with the police report.
“The victim stated she may have thought it was an Uber because she was so drunk but she knows she never called an Uber,” the police report states.
Once inside, she informed police, the motive force received into the backseat and started kissing her, then taking her pants off. She then allegedly informed him to cease and to take her residence however he continued and he or she could have begun kissing him again. She mentioned she didn’t bear in mind a lot however that that they had intercourse.
After conferring along with her roommate and finest buddy over her hazy reminiscence of the night time, she had a rape equipment examination carried out at Beth Israel Hospital, police report.
The subsequent month, an analogous story — however in the end charged as a sexual assault and never rape — an alleged sufferer known as an Uber to take her residence after an evening out at a Union Street tavern. The driver got here in a white Toyota Corolla, which Boston Police say they have been capable of observe to Mancortes, the alleged sufferer received in after which remembered little or no.
At one level she awoke to search out her romper pulled down and the motive force within the again seat along with her sexually abusing her, in keeping with the police report. She screamed for him to “Get the (expletive) off me!” to which she mentioned he complied and moved to the entrance seat. She yelled “Take me home,” the police report states, and he did. She was charged $14.62 for the experience.
Boston Police say the DNA collected within the sexual assault examinations are linked and are additionally linked to a different unsolved Boston rape case and an unsolved Milton rape case. Mancortes has beforehand been convicted on two counts of assault and battery on an individual beneath 14 and one rely of lewd and lascivious act.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”