An Uber driver charged with raping an intoxicated passenger last weekend in South Boston was ordered Friday to remain in custody for at least another month while the case is pending, records show.
Hermann Ngoufack Jiokeng, 39, of Brighton, appeared Friday for a dangerousness hearing in South Boston Municipal Court, records show.
Judge Margaret F. Albertson ordered him “committed without bail’’ pending a probable cause hearing on March 27, according to legal filings.
Jiokeng’s lawyer, William Gens, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
Prosecutors said in court papers that they plan to introduce evidence including “graphic videos and images from multiple sexual assaults,’’ records show.
It wasn’t clear from the filing where or when any other alleged assaults occurred. Jiokeng has not been charged with any other assaults.
He has been held without bail since Monday, when he pleaded not guilty to a sole rape count.
Albertson on Friday granted Gens’s request to have his client remain shielded from public view during the hearing, records show.
Gens wrote in a brief motion that the “accuser has provided three different accounts of the alleged incident where the race of the assailant has [changed] from the first two accounts of a white male to that of a [Black] male.’’
A police report filed in court said the woman told investigators her Uber driver picked her up around 11:48 p.m. Saturday outside Loco Taqueria and Oyster Bar.
She initially said that when the Uber was nearing her residence, the driver stopped as two white men got out of a second vehicle and dragged her into theirs, where she was raped and where the assailants “gave her something and told her ‘to clean up,’’’ the report said.
The woman told police in a subsequent interview at an area hospital where she sought treatment that the driver climbed into the back seat and pinned her down, and that a second person “came out of nowhere’’ and also assaulted her, the report said.
She described the Uber driver as “white with dark features’’ and the second attacker as a man with a “pale’’ complexion, the report said.
The woman’s roommate told police she had been tracking her whereabouts with an app and noticed the Uber was stopped outside their address, according to the report.
The roommate said she went outside and saw “movement’’ in the back seat, so she knocked on the window and “made eye contact’’ with a Black man.
The report said the roommate ran back inside and was about to call 911 when the woman entered and told her what happened.
Because of the inconsistencies, police conducted a “follow-up interview’’ with the woman in an effort to clarify her prior statements, the report said.
She told police she had “consumed a lot of alcohol on the prior date and has started to question some of the details she has provided,’’ the report said.
The woman told police “she believes now it was’’ two Black men involved and that she knew one was her driver, the report said.
She also indicated that she knew “she was raped because she ‘felt it,’ remembered the assault, and based on how her body felt after the incident,’’ the report said.
Jiokeng, who is Black, was identified as her Uber driver through a trip receipt.
He was arrested Sunday morning outside his Hobart Street residence in Brighton. He later waived his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with police, the report said.
He told police the woman was “highly intoxicated’’ in his vehicle and appeared to nod off at times, officials said.
“The suspect stated upon their arrival to the victim’s destination he did enter the back seat of his vehicle where the victim was seated,’’ the report said. “The suspect stated while inside the back seat with the victim he recalled a person knocking on the rear window of the vehicle. When asked, the suspect stated he ‘didn’t remember’ whether he had any sexual contact with the victim.’’
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com.
