A dangerousness hearing was held this afternoon in Fall River Superior Court in the case of Commonwealth vs Scot Trudeau, who was recently indicted for a 2010 New Bedford cold case rape.

 

After a 30-minute hearing, Judge Gregory White took the matter under advisement and ordered that the defendant continue to be held without bail pending his eventual ruling on dangerousness.

 

 The indictment, which charges the defendant with aggravated rape and assault and battery, came as a result of Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III’s Rape Kit Initiative

 

.  Scot Trudeau, 47, of Worcester has been indicted by a Bristol County Grand Jury on charges of Aggravated Rape and Assault and Battery connected to the cold case 2010 rape of a woman in New Bedford.
 
On March 18 2010, a 23-year-old woman was walking along Coffin Avenue in the north end of New Bedford when she was violently attacked by two men.

 

 She was struck in the head and then dragged to a  secluded area, where one of the men (this defendant) raped her while the other one held her down.  

She could not see or identify them because they were wearing hooded sweatshirts.  

She gave a description of them to the police and was taken to St Luke’s Hospital for treatment. While at the hospital, the victim submitted to a sex assault evidence collection kit (Rape Kit).  That kit was one of more than 1,100 from Bristol County alone that was never fully tested by the state lab.

 

 However, after our office became aware of the scope and breadth of the problem with untested rape kits in Bristol County and throughout the state, we took action to obtain a federal grant. We then began the painstaking process of inventorying and prioritizing all untested rape kits in our county, and are now in the process of getting all 1,148 previously untested Bristol County rape kits fully tested by a private lab under the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) grant obtained by District Attorney Quinn in 2019.