MAN CHARGED WITH RAPING UNCONSCIOUS WOMAN AT NIGHTCLUB Jan. 24, 2008 A Woburn man pleaded not guilty this morning to charges that he raped an unconscious woman at a Washington Street nightclub this weekend and was released on the high cash bail his family posted Saturday morning, Suffolk county District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said. NICHOLAS CHIARALUCE, 21 (D.O.B. 9/10/86), is charged with a single count of aggravated rape stemming from his arrest at FELT Boston just after midnight Saturday. Assistant District Attorney Patrick Devlin recommended that Chiaraluce be held on $50,000 cash bail; Boston Municipal Court Judge Thomas C. Horgan set bail at $30,000 – the amount posted by Chiaraluce’s family this weekend. Club employees told responding Boston Police that a patron had seen Chiaraluce having sex with an unconscious woman when he went to use the establishment’s second-floor men’s room. Police spoke with that patron, who told them that he had gone to use the bathroom and observed Chiaraluce having sex with the unconscious victim on the toilet. Boston Police also spoke with a friend of Chiaraluce, who told them that Chiaraluce had called him and asked him to come up to the second-floor men’s room. When he arrived, the man said, he saw the victim with her pants around her knees and Chiaraluce asked him to help him dress her. The man refused. While speaking to officers, Chiaraluce allegedly made statements indicating that he did not know the victim but had bought her a drink. The officers observed what appeared to be either blood or vomit on his pants; they seized those pants and a pair of women’s underwear recovered from the bathroom. The victim, a 21-year-old Boston woman, was transported to an area hospital. Club employees have been cooperative with investigators, Conley said. Horgan ordered Chiaraluce to stay away from the club during the pendency of his case, to have no contact with the victim, and to report daily to a probation officer. Chiaraluce will return to court on March 5 for a probable cause hearing. “The facts of this case are simply appalling,” Conley said. Return to the Press Releases page.