2 sentenced in killing
of Maui woman

The Boston women held
Io Nachtwey as four men killed her

BOSTON » The two women who held down a 22-year-old former Maui woman as four men beat and stabbed her to death nearly four years ago were sentenced yesterday to lengthy prison sentences.

Io Nachtwey: The homeless woman from Maui was slain in 2001 over a gang initiation

For their roles in the November 2001 murder of Io Nachtwey, Lauren Alleyne was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in state prison, to be followed by four years of probation, and Ana White was sentenced to 12 years in prison, followed by four years of probation.

Alleyne, 21, of Malden and White, 21, of Milton both pleaded guilty to manslaughter and kidnapping and agreed to testify for the prosecution at the six-week trial of the four men earlier this year.

Alleyne and White held Nachtwey down on a railroad bridge spanning the Charles River while the four men killed her. Her body was thrown into the river, where joggers found it the next day. Nachtwey was killed because she and her boyfriend refused to take part in a gang initiation that involved stealing, prosecutors said.

Nachtwey, who moved to Massachusetts from Hawaii just months before she was killed, was a homeless woman with a knack for foreign languages who panhandled in "the Pit," the area of Harvard Square near the entrance to the subway station.

The four men -- Ismael Vasquez, 27; his 23-year-old brother, Luiz; Harold Parker, 31; and Scott Davenport, 31 -- were all convicted in April of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.