Two men who reportedly entered a Boston University dorm Sunday morning, one of whom allegedly assaulted two female residents, pleaded not guilty to charges brought against them in Brighton District Court this afternoon.
Daniel Glaser, 20, was charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery, two counts of unarmed burglary and one count of breaking and entering at nighttime, all felony charges; Aaron Goodliss was charged with breaking and entering at nighttime and possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor charge.
Brighton District Court Judge David Donnelly set bail at $7,500 for Glaser and $2,500 for Goodliss. He ordered both to keep off BU property.
Glaser and Goodliss, both juniors at other colleges, were released on $500 bail each Sunday morning, said BUPD Sgt. Larry Cuzzi.
When reached by phone last night, Glaser refused to comment on the situation.
Glaser and Goodliss — who had been signed into Claflin Hall by two female residents who did not know them according to the Dean of Students Office — reportedly entered two separate unlocked rooms and assaulted two different female students before being arrested, Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said.
The first alleged assault occurred around 4 a.m. on the 12th floor of Claflin, said the alleged victim, who asked not to be identified. The Daily Free Press maintains a policy of not publishing the names of possible assault victims.
The female resident said she was sleeping alone in her dorm room, which she said she left unlocked for her roommate, when she felt a man – who police said was later identified by the alleged victim and other residents as Glaser – wrap his arms around her as she lay sleeping.
Assistant District Attorney Megan O’Rourke said Glaser touched the alleged victim’s breasts.
The alleged victim said she woke up and asked what the man was doing. She said she then got out of bed and turned on the light, though she said the man remained in her bed.
“When I turned the light on I saw his face, and I’ve never seen him in my life,” she said. “The other guy was standing in my doorway, laughing.”
The resident said she then asked Goodliss, identified later as the figure in the doorway, and Glaser what they were doing and asked them to leave after they said they wanted to sleep there. The resident said she began to force the man out of her bed after he refused to leave.
“I was literally pulling him by the arm and trying to drag him off my bed,” she said. “They were drunk so I was just trying to stay calm and not look like I’m scared.”
The resident said that after the man in her bed fell on the floor, he and the man in the doorway left her room. She said she shut the door and overheard the man in the hallway say, “None of the girls on this floor really care about themselves because the doors are unlocked.”
The resident said she then went to her floormates’ triple room, which residents said Glaser and Goodliss also entered.
One resident of the triple said she woke up to see a man skipping around her room. She said she then saw Glaser try to use a chair to climb into her roommate’s lofted bed. She said when Glaser touched her roommate’s arm her roommate started shouting for the man to leave.
O’Rourke said Glaser touched the alleged victim’s breasts.
The resident said she and her roommates told the man to get out of the room and that he did after falling from the chair he was standing on.
The resident said her other roommate, who had not been approached by either man – and who corroborated her account of the alleged incident – got out of bed and looked into the hallway, where she saw Goodliss and Glaser trying to enter the resident assistant’s room. The residents said the RA was away for the night.
This resident said she thought Glaser and Goodliss were intoxicated.
“They were so drunk,” she said. “They were laughing the whole time thinking it was some big joke. You broke into someone’s home technically.”
The residents reported that the BUPD quickly responded to their reports. BUPD responded to 4:11 a.m. radio call to Claflin Hall. Residents said they were asked to identify the Goodliss and Glaser and give statements to police on the first floor of the building.
The resident who was allegedly assaulted in the double said the other female residents who signed Goodliss and Glaser into the building were questioned at that time.
An email from the Dean of Students Office states that neither of the alleged victims was physically injured and that the university provided counselors and support following the reported incident.
Elmore said the students who signed in the alleged attackers could face disciplinary action for violating the university guest policy.
Despite the large number of colleges in the area, Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Jake Wark said few alleged assaults of the nature reported come to court.
“Cases like this are fortunately rare,” he said. “Had the facts of this case been even a little bit different, we could be looking at a very, very serious crime.”
Staff reporters Sydney Lupkin and Angela Latona contributed reporting to this article.
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