EVANS CITY — A district judge Tuesday set bail for a teenager accused of attempted murder and rape in an alleged attack along a dead-end road in Jackson Township last month.

But as a condition, District Judge Wayne Seibel ordered that the defendant, Alex Lamont Boyden II, 18, of McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, can only be released into an inpatient treatment facility if he posts the $200,000 bond imposed.

Boyden had been held in the Butler County Prison without bond since his arrest stemming from the May 23 incident.

The discussion over bail followed the defendant's decision to waive his preliminary hearing before Seibel. In addition to attempted homicide, he is charged with aggravated assault, rape, strangulation, theft and receiving stolen property.

Jackson Township police said the teen drove the victim, a friend, down a dirt/gravel road that stops at an embankment below the Interstate 79 off-ramp near Tollgate School Road.

There, the young woman recounted, Boyden eventually got a knife and held it to her neck. According to police, a struggle ensued when the woman tried to take the knife away, at which time she was cut between the thumb and index finger on her left hand.

The victim told authorities Boyden continued to threaten her. They both subsequently got out of the car from the passenger side door. Boyden, still holding the knife, is accused of walking the woman to a nearby grassy hillside.

He allegedly sexually assaulted her and again held the knife to her neck, repeatedly telling her, “I'm going to kill you” and, “Tell me what you know,” according to charging documents.

The woman told police that she did not know what Boyden wanted her to tell him. She recounted that he then strangled her.

“During this time,” documents said, “(the woman) felt that she was going to die as she remembered not being able to breathe, then blacking out.”

She eventually regained consciousness and heard Boyden calling her name. She said she asked him to take her to a hospital, but he refused.

He allegedly left the injured woman along the road and drove away in her 2001 Mercedes-Benz convertible.

The victim, also of McKees Rocks, sought help from a passing motorist, Jackson Township police said. She later was taken by ambulance to a Pittsburgh hospital for treatment of injuries.

Police obtained an arrest warrant for the teen, and they were looking for him when he showed up at the county prison the following night to turn himself in to authorities.

Police in Trumbull County, Ohio recovered the woman's car May 26. Boyden has family in Ohio, it was disclosed during Tuesday's court proceedings.

The victim appeared in court and apparently was ready to testify. She had what appeared to be an ACE bandage around her left hand. When the matter of bail arose, Amanda Scarpo, a county assistant district attorney, asked for $250,000 straight cash.

“There are some concerns about him being a flight risk,” Scarpo said. She also referred to the victim.

“She is absolutely terrified and confused by what happened,” Scarpo said, asking Seibel “to understand the seriousness of it to her and how serious we are taking it.”

She also urged the judge to require the defendant receive inpatient treatment if he gets out of prison.

Boyden's attorney, Frankie Walker II of Clairton, Allegheny County suggested a $50,000 cash or surety bond for his client, calling Scarpo's recommendation “punitive.”

The teen's parents live in Greentree, Allegheny County, and were in court Tuesday. Walker argued his client is not a flight risk. He pointed out that Boyden voluntarily turned himself in when he learned there was an arrest warrant for him.

Walker also said his client is no danger to society, noting he was never arrested before the incident, and that he recently graduated high school.

Seibel said he was troubled by the allegations in the criminal complaint, which he believed indicated Boyden has “issues” of some kind.

“I am very concerned that those issues were spontaneous, not thought out and happened,” Seibel said. “That's my concern with putting him back out on the street.”

He said it was evident that the defendant needed treatment.

Following the proceedings, Walker stressed the charges filed by police are “just allegations.” He said his client is “a good kid from a good family.”

He also called the teen a “good student” who was considering attending prep school before his arrest.

“The important part now is to get a (treatment) evaluation (to determine) what needs to be addressed,” Walker said. “And once it's addressed, he can get out and move forward with the process and fight the charges from the street, as they say.”