From the Miami Herald:
A Boston defense attorney once dubbed one of People Magazine’s Most Eligible bachelors was arrested for allegedly drugging and raping a college student he met at a Miami Beach nightclub.
Gary Zerola — already facing trial in two sexual attacks in Boston — was arrested last Friday night and booked into Miami-Dade County jail.
Miami Beach police charged Zerola, 36, with sexual battery.
Once known for his work on behalf of foster children, Zerola was also a candidate to star in the first season of ABC’s reality hit The Bachelor,” according to Boston media reports.
Zerola did not return phone calls from The Miami Herald. Because of the Miami Beach arrest, prosecutors in Massachusetts on Monday filed a motion to revoke his bond.
According to a Miami Beach police report, this is what happened:
Zerola and a woman named Jheri Leigh Burch met a female Florida International University student at the club Mansion, 1235 Washington Ave. They shared drinks.
Surveillance video showed them entering the Catalina Hotel, 1756 Collins Ave, at 3:03 a.m.
But once inside, Burch ”got upset that [Zerola] brought another woman home with them,” the report said. Burch left and checked into another room.
Then, Zerola attacked the FIU student, police said. ”He held her face with his hand and forced her to take an unknown amount of pills with an unknown liquid,” according to the report.
The bloodied girl later woke up naked laying next to Zerola.
Donning a bathrobe, she called police on her cell phone. When officers arrived, she was ”emotional and distraught,” police said.
When Miami Beach officers arrived, Zerola said spontaneously: ”I never had sex with her,” the report reads.
In November 2006, Zerola was indicted on charges of rape, indecent assault and battery and procuring alcohol for a minor stemming from a 2004 attack in Suffolk County, Mass.
He was also indicted in connection with a 2006 attack on a 19-year-old woman. According to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, he tried forcing himself on a woman, forced her dress off and when she ran into a hallway naked, he covered her mouth and threw her to the ground.
Zerola — a former prosecutor with Suffolk County — forced her back into the apartment and ”slammed her head off a wall,” Lawyers Weekly reported, citing police reports.
He later escaped when he saw flashing police lights.
What a prince.
Hmmm. A scumbag lawyer with the stroke to get listed in People’s Most Eligible Bachelor issue who also likes to rape young girls. And from Boston. Go figure. Must be something in the water up there.
I wonder what his party affiliation is?
Northeast Liberalism at it’s best!
11+ Victims of Gary Zerola:
4 rape victims of Gary Zerola testified under oath about what happened to them. I have heard of at least 3 other victims that have come forward and told police similar stories. Below are blogs about 5 more victims. So far that is 12 women who all claim they are victims of Gary Zerola. There are many many more blogs posted by other victims of Zerola. Think about it. He is clearly a serial rapist and needs to be put away.
“4 years ago Gary Z managed to gain the trust of my family through business ties he has with my father and then drugged and raped my sister as soon as he had a minute alone with her. Luckily he never got his hands on me. This loser behind being put away is the best news I’ve ever heard! I can only hope that his fellow inmates teach him what it feels like to be manhandled.”
-RT
Boston Herald
“a similar situation happened to me with gary, but i never reported it, and i was also 18 years old.”
-a girl
Boston Herald
“Gary Zerola raped two friends of mine about 9 years ago. The last thing they remember was Gary buying them drinks at West St. Bar. They woke up naked next to Gary in the morning. Gary made sure he put enough drugs in their drinks so they wouldn’t remember how they got there. They do know that they were raped. Neither of them had ever blacked out before in their lives. Read the blogs on Gary Zerola…. other’s have similar stories”
– Florida International University Beacon
you’ll get what’s coming to you
Apr. 2, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Posted by BURN IN HELL GARY
these girls are absolutely telling the truth. how do i know? i’m in the same boat. i hope gary is miserable and tainted for the rest of his life, just like the girls he abused.
-Boston Magazine
” Boston magazine has found reference in court documents to prosecutors’ allegations of a fourth incident, involving a young woman who claims her friends had to whisk her away from Zerola after he allegedly drugged her, though no charges were ever brought.”
-Boston Magazine
See for yourself:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_case_against_casanova/