Judge Revokes Bail for Man Charged With Rape, Assault
May 23, 2008
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — A man accused of raping and stalking a mentally disabled Rhode Island man has had his bail revoked.
Buddy Smith is charged with rape and indecent assault and battery on a retarded person for allegedly assaulting the 25-year-old man multiple times between 2004 and 2006.
Smith had been free on $1,000 bail.
On Wednesday, a judge revoked his bail and ordered him held until his July 21 trial.
The ruling came after a witness testified about seeing Smith peeping in the window of the alleged victim’s group home in Foster.
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