A jury found a Boston man guilty on half of the charges against him last week in connection with a September 2024 attack on a homeless woman “that left her bruised, bloodied and screaming for help,” the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
Dorchester resident Anthony Dew, 43, was convicted on charges of assault and battery causing serious bodily injury, assault and battery and strangulation in Suffolk County Superior Court, the district attorney’s office said in a press release. The judge in the case declared a mistrial on the three other charges against him: rape, attempted murder and assault with intent to murder.
The charges stem from a Sept. 8, 2024, incident that prosecutors say began with Dew approaching a 51-year-old homeless woman and inviting her to take drugs with him, the district attorney’s office said. He is accused of bringing the woman to his mother’s home on Evelyn Street in Boston before raping, beating and strangling her…