A Level 3 predator accused of sexually assaulting an MIT pupil within the Back Bay was busted alongside the town’s drug-plagued Methadone Mile.
Nahom Getaneh, 33, was tracked down Tuesday by police within the space of Atkinson and Southampton streets — the epicenter of the opioid-crazed zone — after a fuzzy picture was posted of a suspected night time stalker.
Getaneh faces arraignment in Boston Municipal Court on fees of assault with intent to rape and indecent assault and battery, police mentioned. He is accused of attacking an MIT pupil Saturday night time within the space of Beacon Street simply earlier than midnight.
The alleged sufferer was getting into her Delta Phi Epsilon sorority on Beacon Street. Further particulars, police mentioned, will come out on the arraignment, however the fees and different studies point out the assault may have been a lot worse.
Getaneh additionally has two excellent warrants in opposition to him for failure to register as a intercourse offender and possession of sophistication B medicine.
He is listed as being 6 ft tall and weighing 240 kilos, in line with his Sex Offender Registry profile. That abstract lists him as being convicted in 2007 of indecent assault and battery on an individual aged 14 or older.
Getaneh was additionally described by police as sporting a navy-blue shirt with tie-dye design and black dishevelled sweatpants with two white stripes on the time of the alleged assault. He additionally reportedly spoke English with an accent and one other language, police added.
City Councilor Frank Baker mentioned the suspect is simply one of many “bad behaviors” the town retains rewarding by placing up with the mess alongside the Mile — also referred to as Mass and Cass.
“We’re rewarding poor behavior across the board,” Baker, who will not be searching for re-election, informed the Herald Tuesday night time. “He’s not the only one down there. It’s a total failure. Tax dollars are going to someone like that to live there.”
Baker, a District 3 conservative voice on a left-leaning City Council, mentioned dumping $10 million into “low-threshold housing” for many who congregate alongside the Methadone Mile will not be serving to the town.
“Look at LA, San Francisco, New York City and Seattle,” he mentioned, “the woke way is not working.”
If convicted, Baker mentioned this suspect needs to be “put in jail and the key thrown away.”
What’s wanted, he added, is permitting the town to position denizens of the Mile in a “civil hold” to allow them to get the assistance they want and never prey on the harmless. The neighborhood may then return again to those that need normalcy.
According to a number of studies, MIT police mentioned the suspect approached on a bicycle asking for meals as the lady went contained in the sorority the place the person groped her from behind — however she fought him off.
A Level 3 intercourse offender is taken into account to be the almost definitely to re-offend, forcing them to register the place they work and stay and to make that every one open to the general public.
Getaneh’s profile lists him as having aliases that embody variations of his identify and John Doe.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”