Sex Offender Accused Of Kidnapping, Assault With Intent To Rape

BOSTON, MA — Kennedy Colson, 29, who provided the address of a Boston homeless shelter at booking, was arraigned Tuesday in Roxbury Municipal Court on charges of assault with intent to rape, kidnapping, open and gross lewdness, assault and battery, and trespassing.

Colson, who is a level 3 sex offender, was arrested on July 20, two days after someone reported to transit police that he had exposed himself on the Orange Line. After he was arraigned for that it came out that he was accused of a separate crime, as well.

Shortly before 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, police said Colson assaulted someone at building located on the campus of Northeastern University. At the request of prosecutors, he was ordered held without bail pending the outcome of a dangerousness hearing under Chapter 276, Section 58A, of the Massachusetts General Laws.

That hearing is scheduled to take place on Friday, July 26.

Colson was also arraigned yesterday in West Roxbury Municipal Court on charges of open and gross lewdness and failure to register as a sex offender in connection to his original arrest by transit police. Colson is accused of exposing himself on an Orange Line train in the area of Forest Hills station on July 18, and making lewd comments to a female passenger shortly after 1 p.m. that same Thursday. Bail was set in the amount of $5,000.

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Sexual assault can happen to anyone.

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