A lady who mentioned that Manhattan company lawyer and accused serial rapist Matthew Nilo raped her in Charlestown 15 years in the past has spoken out concerning the traumatizing expertise.
“I kept thinking, ‘Is this a nightmare? I’m going to wake up,’” Lori Pinkham, who was working as a promoter for nightclubs within the Boston space on the time of the 2007 incident, informed “Good Morning America” this morning.
“I had been out at one of the clubs I was doing promotions for and I was walking to my car. He pulled up in his car next to me and kind of cut me off and started yelling something to me like, ‘Hey, oh hey I saw you, do you need a ride?’ I was like, ‘No, I’m ok,’ and that’s when I saw he had a gun in his hand. And he just said, ‘Get in the car,’” she mentioned. “I just got really scared and I got in the car.”
“I started getting scared and he kept driving. As soon as we got to Charlestown and he stopped the car, I tried to run as fast as I could and he caught up to me and that’s when he raped me,” she continued. “It took away my freedom, honestly.”
Nilo, 35, who now lives in New Jersey, has been linked to a sequence of sexual assaults that occurred over a decade in the past on Terminal Street in Charlestown, Suffolk County prosecutors allege. He was arraigned final week in Boston on three counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, one rely of assault with intent to rape, and one rely of indecent assault and battery. Bail had been set at $500,000.
His lawyer Joseph Cataldo mentioned Monday that his consumer would put up bail however the Good Morning American clip mentioned that he was nonetheless in custody on the time the story aired.
Pinkham informed Good Morning America that she would testify if prosecutors requested.
“It’s been horrible. A big part of my life stopped that day,” Pinkham mentioned in her GMA interview.. “I couldn’t work. I didn’t want to spend time with anybody. Every day, I’ve lived in fear.”
Nilo’s arrest was introduced by Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, Boston FBI Special Agent in Charge Joseph Bonavolonta and Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden in a night information convention at BPD headquarters on May 30.
He was arrested at his house in Weehawken, N.J., earlier that day. On June 2 he waived an extradition listening to in Hudson County, N.J. He appeared for his arraignment on the costs in Boston on June 5.
At that arraignment, extra particulars emerged, together with that investigators obtained a pattern of his DNA from a glass and utensils at a company occasion.
That pattern, prosecutors mentioned, linked him to 4 rapes within the Terminal Street space of Charlestown on Aug. 18, 2007; Nov. 22, 2007; Aug. 5, 2008; and Dec. 23, 2008.
The first two alleged victims have been every 23 years previous on the time, every reported being out at a bar for a highschool reunion on State Street once they accepted a trip from a person underneath false pretenses, who prosecutors say is Nilo.
Both reported being pushed to a location round Terminal Street, threatened with weapons, ordered out of the automobile and forcibly raped, prosecutors detailed.
The third alleged sufferer, a 36-year-old girl, mentioned she was panhandling within the Boston Common when a younger man bribed her to get into his automobile. He then drove her to Terminal Street and raped her at gunpoint.
In the December 2008 alleged rape, prosecutors mentioned Nilo focused a 44-year-old girl jogging close to Terminal Street.
Pinkham’s mom Janine McGovern, sitting beside her daughter for the GMA interview, mentioned that her daughter’s expertise is “heartbreaking.”
“I feel like there’s a part of her that didn’t get to continue her life. So she didn’t finish growing up to become a woman with a career and a family,” she mentioned. “And I know that breaks her heart.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”