Matthew Nilo case: New Jersey lawyer dealing with new costs in North Finish sexual assaults

Crime

The 35-year-old is dealing with costs associated to a string of mid-2000s sexual assaults in Charlestown and the North Finish.

After being arrested in New Jersey, Matthew Nilo was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Courtroom on rape costs stemming from assaults in Charlestown in 2007 and 2008. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Employees, File

A New Jersey lawyer charged in a string of mid-2000s sexual assaults in Charlestown was indicted on further costs Tuesday stemming from 5 extra alleged assaults within the North Finish.

Matthew Nilo, 35, was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury on seven new costs: rape, aggravated rape, three counts of assault with intent to rape, and two counts of indecent assault and battery.

The Suffolk District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned Tuesday’s costs are associated to 5 assaults on 4 ladies in 2007 and 2008 within the North Finish, the place Nilo lived on the time. The alleged assaults occurred in January 2007, July 2007, January 2008, and July 2008; the DA’s workplace mentioned Nilo attacked one of many victims twice, 11 days aside.

“The incidents adopted the same sample,” the DA’s workplace mentioned in a press launch. “The victims had been attacked whereas they had been strolling alone, in the dead of night, both at night time or early within the morning.”

Nilo’s legal professional, Joseph Cataldo, advised Boston.com in an e mail that his consumer “denies all of the allegations together with the most recent costs.”

“You may count on each a authorized and factual problem to the federal government’s case,” Cataldo wrote. 

In a press release, Suffolk District Legal professional Kevin Hayden mentioned prosecutors will launch extra info at Nilo’s arraignment, “however I can let you know in the present day that DNA proof performed a task in these new indictments.”

Nilo beforehand pleaded not responsible to a few counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, one rely of assault with intent to rape, and one rely of indecent assault and battery within the Charlestown assaults, which occurred in 2007 and 2008.

To trace down a suspect within the Charlestown instances, authorities paired new advances in DNA testing with investigative genetic family tree, which incorporates submitting an assailant’s DNA profile to 2 business family tree databases, The Boston Globe beforehand reported. 

Prosecutors within the Charlestown assaults mentioned FBI brokers obtained utensils and drinkware that they noticed Nilo use at an occasion, and investigators then constructed a DNA profile that allegedly matched the suspect’s. 

Lori Pinkham, one of many ladies Nilo allegedly assaulted in Charlestown, advised ABC Information in an interview this month that she started to lose hope that investigators would ever determine a suspect in her 2007 rape.

“He can’t terrorize this metropolis anymore. We’re not his prey,” Pinkham mentioned. “He can’t be a predator in Boston or wherever else.”

Nilo was launched on $500,000 bail on June 15. He might be formally charged on the brand new counts at his subsequent courtroom date on July 13, the DA’s workplace mentioned.