Sexual Assault Suspect Faces Arraignment

A man who allegedly posed as a University admissions officer and sexually assaulted two male Secondary Summer School students in July will be arraigned in a Cambridge court Thursday, Harvard police said.

Lieut. Lawrence J. Murphy said Friday that there were no plans to arrest the suspect, who has been issued a summons to appear in court. Murphy declined to release the man's name prior to Thursday's hearing but said he was a Cambridge resident.

Suspect at Large

In a flier distributed to dormitories in July, officials said that the man approached two high-school age students and suggested that he could help them gain entrance to Harvard College. The suspect then asked the young men to dinner, "served them large quantities of alcohol, brought them back to his apartment and...engaged them in sex against their will," according to the statement.

Although the suspect remains at large, Murphy, who heads Harvard's Criminal Investigation Division, said he was not concerned for the safety of Harvard students.

Police described the man as "a slender Black male, in his late 20s or early 30s speaking with an accent, slightly balding, graying at the temple and presentably dressed." He has no affiliation with Harvard, officials said.

As word of the alleged assaults spread, a number of other students, including some at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and other area schools, reported that they had been approached by the suspect, Harvard officials said.

Police said the man has an arrest record and has been in the area since 1985 or earlier.