Texas man in prison charged in connection with 4 violent sexual assaults in Mass.

Date:2025-08-02 06:59:15 Category:US Views:2 Comment:0

Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of rape and sexual assault.

A Texas man was charged in connection with four women who were sexually assaulted in New Bedford in 2013, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn III’s office said Friday.

Orlando Robles, 51, was charged with kidnapping; two counts of rape, indecent assault and battery on a person over 14; nine counts of assault and battery; assault with the intent to commit an indecent assault and battery; and use of a vehicle in the commission of a crime.

He was arraigned in Fall River Superior Court on Wednesday and was ordered held without bail, Quinn’s office said in a statement. He is next expected to appear in court for a pretrial conference on Sept. 9.

Robles is suspected of four sexual assaults on women between June and July 2013, Quinn’s office said. The first assault was on a woman who was walking home and he offered to drive her in his car, indicating he was on his way to pick up his child. Once she was in the car, he drove to a secluded area, choked her, grabbed her breasts and sexually assaulted her. As she tried to pull herself away, the man hit her in the head.

The second woman was sexually assaulted after she tried to leave her car parked in her home’s driveway, the statement read. A man grabbed her by the throat, forced her back in the car, hit her face and raped her as she tried to get away.

This similarly happened to a third woman before he fled, Quinn’s office said.

A fourth woman was sexually assaulted as she entered her car in New Bedford’s downtown area, the statement read. A man punched her in the face, raped her and then left, but his truck was identified in the area of the attack.

Police spoke with the man, who said he was from Texas, Quinn’s office said. The next day, the man left Massachusetts for Texas.

Robles was convicted of the violent sexual assaults of four different women in Texas between August and September 2013, as well as exposing himself to a woman and her daughter, Quinn’s office said.

He was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison before he was rendited to Massachusetts regarding the charges he faces in Bristol County Superior Court, Quinn’s office said.