Matthew Nilo stands throughout an look at Suffolk Superior Courtroom, Thursday, July 13, 2023, in Boston. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe through AP, Pool
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BOSTON (AP) — Matthew Nilo, a New Jersey lawyer already charged in reference to a collection of sexual assaults in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood about 15 years in the past, pleaded not responsible on Thursday to new expenses stemming from sexual assaults in one other space of the town that occurred at roughly the identical time.
Nilo, 35, was launched on $50,000 bail at his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Courtroom after getting into pleas to a complete of seven new expenses, together with rape, aggravated rape and assault to rape.
The brand new expenses stem from 5 assaults on 4 girls — one lady was attacked twice — in Boston’s North Finish between January 2007 and July 2008, prosecutors mentioned. Nilo lived within the neighborhood on the time, Suffolk District Lawyer Kevin Hayden mentioned, and the assaults adopted an identical sample to the Charlestown circumstances.
Nilo was beforehand freed on $500,000 bail after pleading not responsible in June in reference to the Charlestown assaults. He labored for a New-York-based cybersecurity firm, was employed in January after passing a background verify, and was suspended following his arrest.
Advances in DNA testing and genealogical testing led to figuring out Nilo, who now lives in Weehawken, New Jersey, as a suspect, Hayden mentioned.
“Nothing can get rid of the fear skilled by these survivors,” Hayden mentioned after the arraignment. “However at the least now they’ve the information that Mr. Nilo should reply to the horrible expenses he’s alleged to have dedicated. We hope this supplies some solace to survivors of those assaults.”
Nilo’s lawyer, Joseph Cataldo, mentioned his consumer denies the fees and the district lawyer’s workplace was “piling on.”
“I believe they’re making an attempt to unravel some unresolved circumstances, and I’m afraid that the federal government could be piling on, simply making an attempt to say that Mr. Nilo dedicated these crimes,” Cataldo mentioned exterior the courtroom.
Nilo was tied to the Charlestown circumstances by means of DNA taken from a ingesting glass he had used at a company occasion this 12 months, and Cataldo has questioned the constitutionality of the best way that proof was collected with no warrant.
Hayden thinks it’s going to get up in court docket.
“We’re assured within the legality of the proof now we have recovered,” Hayden mentioned.
Nilo is scheduled to be again in court docket on Sept. 14.
