Amos Sykes, 35, of Quincy, was ordered held with out bail following a dangerousness listening to at Boston Municipal Court Wednesday.
“This brutal, random attack is exactly the type of incident for which it’s in the best public interest to move forward with a dangerousness hearing,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden mentioned following the listening to.
Sykes was arraigned Monday and charged with assault and battery inflicting critical bodily harm, indecent assault and battery, assault to rape, strangulation, assault and battery with a harmful weapon and assault and battery.
Police responded to the realm of West Canton Street and Appleton Street at round 9:40 p.m. Saturday after a number of witnesses within the space heard a lady screaming and noticed a suspect punching her within the head as he sat on her, in line with a BPD assertion.
When police arrived, a few of these witnesses have been purportedly combating with Sykes within the girl’s protection, however Sykes fled earlier than police caught as much as him. The alleged sufferer instructed police she was strolling down Columbus Avenue when Sykes grabbed her, compelled her to the bottom, punched her and tried to tear up her clothes.
“This was a nightmarish attack that left the victim bloodied and bruised, and would likely have resulted in an even worse outcome if not for the extraordinarily brave intervention of a Good Samaritan,” Hayden mentioned.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”