A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Anthony Dew, 43, of Dorchester to 7 1/2 to 9 years in state prison for a brutal attack on a woman who thought she was just going to share some drugs with him early on Sept. 8, 2024, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office reports.

A Suffolk jury convicted Dew last week of assault and battery, assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and strangulation for the attack in his mother’s Evelyn Street apartment. However, a mistrial was declared for the remaining charges of attempted murder, rape and assault to murder. Dew will return to court January 21 for a status hearing on those charges, the DA’s office reports.

Prosecutors told the jury that on September 8, 2024, Dew approached a 51-year-old homeless woman and invited her to do drugs. Dew brought her to his mother’s house on Evelyn Street, where he raped, strangled, and beat her before fleeing and leaving her bloodied, undressed, and screaming for help in the driveway.

Upon arrival, officers observed a woman with her jeans pulled down to her ankles and a T-shirt soaked in what appeared to officers to be blood, pulled up. As officers approached the victim, she screamed “he raped me” and pointed to an apartment. The victim told police the man who attacked her lived there and had raped and beat her as she “went in and out” of consciousness. Officers observed the victim to be spitting up blood and her face to be covered in blood. Officers also saw what appeared to be the victim’s hair on the stairs leading out of the apartment.

The victim sustained contusions and abrasions all over her body and had swelling and bruising to her mouth, jaw, and both eyes. First responders transported her to a local hospital for treatment.

Prosecutors said Dew made his arrest easy: Although he fled the scene, he returned as first responders were still treating the woman "and became verbally combative with officers."

This was not Dew’s first time in Suffolk Superior Court. In 2016, he pleaded guilty in 2016 to five counts of human trafficking and was sentenced to eight to ten years in state prison, under a deal in which rape charges against him were dropped.

In 2023, however, after he completed his prison time, however, the Supreme Judicial Court vacated his sentence.

The state’s highest court concluded that Dew, both Black and Muslim, could not have gotten the best possible representation because his lawyer, court-appointed Richard Doyle, was, in fact, a virulent hater of both Blacks and Muslims, somebody who spent several years posting anti-Muslim and anti-Black images and rants on his Facebook page - sometimes while he was in court.

Innocent, etc.