Serial rapist convicted of attacking another woman

By Globe Staff

A Suffolk Superior Court jury found serial rapist Che Sosa guilty this afternoon of attacking another woman, convicting him of a 1995 assault in a home in Jamaica Plain.

The jury deliberated three days before finding Sosa guilty of two counts of aggravated rape. The burly 38-year-old was identified as a suspect in the crime in 2003 when his DNA was entered into a national database in connection with another case. The victim was described as a woman in her 50s.

Sosa is already serving up to 55 years in prison for a conviction in Norfolk Superior Court that included nine counts of aggravated rape and stabbing his lawyer with a makeshift plexiglass knife during his trial.

When he testified in his current case, the shackles restraining Sosa anchored him to a blue chair that weighed 250 pounds. The chains made it impossible for the burly man to lift his arms.

With the jury out of the courtroom, Sosa told the judge he expected to be convicted. When the jury was present, however, he emphatically denied raping the woman in Jamaica Plain in 1995. Apparently the jury did not believe him.

Sosa is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday at 10 a.m.

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