Commonwealth v. Washington

The defendant was convicted of forcible rape of a child under sixteen (five counts), robbery, and kidnapping. The fourteen year old victim testified that the defendant, previously unknown to her, grabbed her and threw her to the ground on a street in Dorchester as she was walking home from a friend’s house. He asked her for money, which she didn’t have, took her jewelry, and then took her to a nearby park, where he raped her. According to the victim’s testimony, the defendant then demanded that she accompany *272him to various places, acting as if she were his girlfriend and doing what he wanted…