Worcester Man Charged In 2010 New Bedford Rape: DA

WORCESTER, MA — A grand jury has indicted a Worcester man in connection to a 2010 rape in New Bedford, the first criminal charges handed down under a Bristol County District Attorney initiative to test previously untested rape kits.

Scot Trudeau was indicted on Friday on charges of aggravated rape and assault and battery by a Bristol County grand jury, DA Thomas Quinn said. In March 2010, Trudeau and another man attacked a 23-year-old woman along Coffin Avenue in New Bedford, according to the prosecutor.

"She was struck in the head and then dragged to a secluded area, where [Trudeau] raped her while the other one held her down. She could not see or identify them because they were wearing hooded sweatshirts," Quinn said in a news release.

Trudeau is in the midst of serving a federal child sexual exploitation probation sentence handed down in 2015. He is set to appear at Bristol County Superior Court on Tuesday for a dangerousness hearing.

Bristol County has a backlog of about 1,100 untested rape kits. Massachusetts has a wider backlog of nearly 6,000 untested kits, according to the group End the Backlog.