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Convicted rapist arrested for attack that started in the South End and ended as a rape in a Roxbury park
By adamg on Tue, 08/23/2016 - 10:43pm
Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he forced a woman at knifepoint to walk a half mile to a park and then raped her.
Eduardo Rodriguez, 31, is scheduled for arraignment tomorrow in Roxbury Municipal Court on charges of aggravated rape, indecent assault and battery, armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping and intimidation of a witness, police say.
WHDH reports Rodriguez was released this past December after serving a sentence for a 2007 rape.
Police say Rodriguez rode up to the woman on a bicycle as she walked in the area of Greenwich Park and Claremont Street around 1 a.m. on Sunday, then forced her at knifepoint to walk to Carter Playground on Columbus Avenue, where he raped her.
Police say they found and arrested Rodriguez today at Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.
Innocent, etc.
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Mass Ave. And Melnea Cass.
Mass Ave. And Melnea Cass. Would love to know how many others in that vacinity are repeat offenders like this one. Can't even begin to fathom how many in that vacinity have warrants. South Enders beware when walking your beautiful, historic walkways. Robbers and rapists with no other place to go but the streets and parks are everywhere.
Right
Because bad people always live in poor people places. They never live in nicer places. Nope.
I wouldn't exactly call the
I wouldn't exactly call the South End a poor place. Large population of high wealth lives in the South End.
Glad he was caught so quickly.
Nice, swift work Boston Police
Thank you!
- The Original SoBo Yuppie
This guy forcibly raped a
This guy forcibly raped a high school student in 2007 and is walking among the general public? WTF?!
They didn't want to disrupt his college experience
Or something of that sort. Oh, and women shouldn't drink. Excessive drinking. Right. That.
I don't get the system.
So he served 8 years for a violent rape. And then released. Because rapist recidivism is so high, they gave him a GPS monitor bracelet. So he was "safe" enough to release, but "dangerous" enough to need to monitor? And clearly only the latter was true, and this is a closing-the-barn-door type situation: they tracked him down too late to spare another victim in an identical recreation of the first crime.
Hopefully the lesson isn't to lock him up for another 8 years, release him with a bracelet, and then find out there's another victim 8 months later. Maybe if these people are dangerous enough to monitor, they should be monitored or restricted more closely. Too many rapists with bracelets running around, while minor drug offenders are in jail instead of rehab.
" Too many rapists with
" Too many rapists with bracelets running around, while minor drug offenders are in jail instead of rehab."
Yup.
They're in jail because there
They're in jail because there are not enough beds in drug rehabs or halfway houses.
Citations please for people
Citations please for people serving lengthy sentences in jail for smoking a joint.
Here's the problem: rape STILL is treated as a 'boys will be boys' 'blame the victim' crime, as we have recently learned in the news. These judges who treat rapists with a light slap in the wrist are repulsive.
In this case
In this case the perpetrator served 8 years for the 2007 crime. The issue, as noted below, is how convicted rapists are monitored once they are released. This is the third time I can recall that a monitor-wearing rapist has committed a crime and only been caught after the fact. I am thinking of the Arboretum incident summer 2014 and an incident last summer that I'm not quite remembering the details on.
What do the bracelets even do?
So, someone's wearing a bracelet - is someone actually monitoring it? 24/7? And what do they do with the information from the bracelet? Is it only for additional evidence once the rapist rapes again (or in this case), or is it to enforce the standard feel-good "we must not let SEX OFFENDERS NEAR SCHOOLS because think of the children" policy that ignores adult victims?
Rodriguez belonged at Bridgewater or deported
His lawyer appealed and got tossed aside one of the convictions from his 2007 rape: http://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/court-of-appeals/2013/11-p-131...
If he is an illegal immigrant or just on a visa, he should have been deported upon release from prison so he wouldn't hurt another woman here. Illegal immigrants can't get Mass. driving licenses so tend to ride bicycles for transportation like this guy.
If a US citizen, then he should have been civilly committed to the sexually dangerous treatment center at Bridgewater. http://www.mass.gov/eopss/law-enforce-and-cj/prisons/doc-facilities/mass...