Police Arrest Second Man Wanted in Rape, Prostitution Case

Brookline police have arrested a second man accused of forcing a special-needs woman to have sex with five to 10 men in exchange for drug money.

Raphael Gonzales, a 58-year-old man from Chelsea, was charged with rape, distribution of class B substance, and deriving support from a prostitute. His alleged accomplice, 58-year-old Brookline resident Lawrence Allan Bloom, was arrested Monday on the same charges.

Police had searched the Gonzales's apartment on Beacon Street in Chelsea on July 16, but were unable to locate him until he returned home until today.

Police say Bloom, a longtime Brookline resident, started inviting the victim, a 38-year-old woman with special needs who lives in a Brookline group home, over to his apartment to smoke crack cocaine earlier this year. The victim reportedly told police that Bloom would often ask her to have sex with him in exchange for drugs.

On June 24, police say Bloom and Gonzalez, who also goes by "Primo," took the victim Gonzalez's Chelsea apartment to get "better quality" crack, but instead brought over five to 10 men to have intercourse and oral sex with the victim over the course of the following day. Throughout the ordeal, Gonzalez allegedly kept watch over the woman "to make sure she did everything right," according to Brookline Police Department reports.

The victim was reported missing when she did not return home to her assisted living apartment in Brookline on June 25, but was reportedly found walking home with Bloom and Gonzalez the following day.