Prosecutors say Dot teen undone by social media

Charged with rape, robbery

A Dorchester teen accused of going on an 18hour crime spree last week — robbing three women, raping one of them, kidnapping another and forcing his way into a fourth woman’s home — was undone by the photo he sent with a “friend” request to one of his victims on Snapchat, prosecutors said.

Jude Despage, 18, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Dorchester District Court to three counts of armed robbery and one count each of aggravated rape, kidnapping, home invasion and witness intimidation. Judge Jonathan R. Tynes ordered him to be confined to his home, with GPS monitoring, if he posts $100,000 bail.

The first incident occurred last Thursday, when a woman was held up at knifepoint on Hendry Street by a man who took her Visa card and took a photo of her ID before giving it back to her, telling her, “If you call the police, I will come back for you,” according to Assistant District Attorney Ian Polumbaum, who said that was the start of an 18-hour crime spree.

Shortly after 8 a.m. Friday, another woman told police she had just been held up at knifepoint on Charles Street toward the Fields Corner train station, Polumbaum said, but the woman was able to break free.

A half-hour later, a woman was held up at gunpoint in the area of Barry Street by a man who took her ATM card, her iPhone and her ID, telling her he would come back and kill her if she told police, Polumbaum said. The man then raped her and fled, he said. Shortly afterward, he withdrew $202 from her bank account, according to a police report.

On Friday afternoon, a man forced his way into a woman’s Mount Ida Road home at knifepoint and forced her to undress and take a shower while he rummaged through the apartment, Polumbaum said. As in two of the other cases, he took her ID in case she went to police.

That night, the victim logged into her Snapchat account and found a new “friend” request, Polumbaum said. When she opened it, she was shocked to see a photo of her assailant. Boston police disseminated the photo to area police departments, he said, and the following day, Randolph police contacted them with his identity.

Despage’s attorney, M. Barush, said he had been living with his girlfriend since he was kicked out of his family’s Randolph home and lost his job with a delivery company after it relocated to a place inaccessible by public transit.

The rape case is “quite different” from the other crimes, Barush said, both because the perpetrator used a gun, not a knife, and because the victim’s description of the assailant does not match her client.