Bail Bonanza for Lowlifes

American Scofflaw

Two Chestnut Hill men were out on bail yesterday within hours of pleading not guilty to charges that one of them acted as a lookout while the other broke into two Boston University student dorm rooms and laughed as he sexually assaulted women, prosecutors said.

Daniel Glaser, 20, and Aaron Goodliss, 21, neither of whom attends BU, are accused of convincing two female students early Sunday to sign them into Claflin Hall, where they allegedly searched for doors that were unlocked.

Someone initially had signed Glaser into the building about 2:30 a.m., prosecutors said, but he was asked to leave when he became unruly and made unwanted advances toward one of his hosts.

Afterward, Glaser allegedly called Goodliss over to the dorm, where they told two residents that they didn’t have their Boston University IDs. Those residents signed them in, contrary, BU officials say, to university policy.

As Goodliss waited outside a 12th-floor room, Glaser allegedly walked in, climbed into bed and groped an 18-year-old student until she awoke and told him to get out, according to prosecutors.

The men then made their way to another unlocked room, where Goodliss again waited in the hallway as Glaser used a chair to climb into a student’s loft and groped her, prosecutors said.

Both men left the floor using the stairs but were detained by university police.

The attacks left women on campus shaken and questioning just how safe they really are in their housing.

“The fact that it was a completely random attack is what’s really frightening,” said Katie Peterson, a 19-year-old sophomore now in her second year living at Claflin.

Colin Riley, a Boston University spokesman, called the attacks a “reminder that students need to take responsibility for their guests.”

Glaser, a student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, was charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery, two counts of unarmed burglary and one count of breaking and entering at night with the intent to commit a felony.

Goodliss, a student at Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island, was charged with breaking and entering at night, as well as marijuana possession.

Assistant District Attorney Megan O’Rourke recommended that both men be held on $25,000 cash bail.

However Brighton District Court Judge David T. Donnelly set significantly lower bail, $7,500 for Glaser and $2,500 for Goodliss.