Victor Pena, the 38-year-old Charlestown man accused of kidnapping a 23-year-old Boston woman back on Jan. 19, now faces three new charges of aggravated rape and has been deemed competent to stand trial, according to court records and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Pena appeared in Charlestown Municipal Court Friday morning and was held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing. He is scheduled to return to court March 15.

Judge Lawrence McCormick impounded the paperwork for the case; this was done “to protect the victim’s private information,” Jake Wark, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office, said via email.


On Friday, Pena was brought to court from Bridgewater State Hospital, where he had been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation after his first court appearance on Jan. 23 on an initial kidnapping charge, according to an email from the DA’s office. Pena had told officials he was hearing voices and experiencing other symptoms of psychosis.

The victim was found alive in Pena’s apartment on Jan. 22, three days after she was last seen at Hennessy’s bar near Faneuil Hall on Jan. 19. Boston.com is no longer naming the woman since she is the survivor of a violent crime at the request of the district attorney’s office.