Man charged in 3 Boston rapes to face judge

BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A 38-year-old Dorchester man suspected in three brutal sexual assaults a decade ago is scheduled to appear in Suffolk Superior Court Wednesday afternoon, District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

Jerry Dixon will face a judge in connection with a pending case charging him with multiple counts of aggravated rape for the attacks on March 20, 1991, in a wooded area off Townsend Street in Roxbury; on April 24, 1991, near the Academy Homes housing development in Roxbury; and on July 13, 1991, near Amory Street in Jamaica Plain.

Anthony Powell, an innocent man, was wrongly convicted at a 1992 trial for the Townsend Street attack. DNA testing was not available at the time of his trial and he spent 12 years in prison before Conley’s office affirmatively exonerated him based on subsequent advances in forensic science.

Dixon is expected to appear in the First Session of Suffolk Superior Court at or about 2 p.m.