A New Hampshire man was sentenced to decades in prison on Monday for violently raping three different women he picked up in Boston in 2023, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced.
On May 16, 2025, a jury convicted 25-year-old Newton, New Hampshire, resident Maxwell Newman of four counts of rape, three counts of assault and battery, two counts of assault to rape and one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, the district attorney’s office said in a press release.
On Monday, Judge Debra Squires-Lee sentenced Newman to 28 to 34 years in state prison followed by five years of probation, the district attorney’s office said. While issuing the sentence, she noted his “repeated acts of violence, deliberate targeting of vulnerable women and degrading treatment” of the victims.
On April 20, 2023, Newman was driving in the area of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard in Boston when he approached the first victim, the district attorney’s office said. He brought the woman to a secluded parking lot at 128 Gerard St. and raped her.
On June 12, 2023, at about 1:30 a.m., Newman was driving in the same area of Boston when he approached the second victim outside a Sunoco gas station, the district attorney’s office said. He offered to pay the victim $120 and brought her to the same parking lot despite the victim’s request that they park elsewhere.
Newman then violently raped the second victim, the district attorney’s office said. She immediately reported the crimes to the police and was taken to a local hospital.
Later that evening, Newman returned to the same area of Boston, approached the third victim and invited her into his car, the district attorney’s office said. After driving her around Boston and New Hampshire for a while, he brought her to a state park.
Two fishermen were walking back to their car when they heard the victim screaming and saw Newman on top of her, the district attorney’s office said. They found the victim with fresh bruises and cuts that were swelling and bleeding.
She reported being punched in the face, beaten and raped, but said she did not fight back because she feared for her life, the district attorney’s office said. Detectives were able to identify Newman as a suspect in this assault through video footage showing him entering and exiting the state park in his Kia Forte.
In October 2023, detectives determined that DNA from the first two assaults were from the same perpetrator using a national crime scene database, the district attorney’s office said. A DNA sample from Newman that they obtained via court order after his arrest for the third rape linked him to the prior two crimes.
“Maxwell Newman set out to terrorize some of the most vulnerable individuals in our society, and he did exactly that, including assaulting two victims in the same day,” Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in the release. “I’m proud of the investigators, prosecutors and victim witness advocates who helped secure a measure of justice for these women, and I’m grateful that the jurors held this man accountable for his cruel actions.”
