They don't look very sorry.
Posted on 07/06/2007 6:04:39 PM PDT by indcons
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Two teenagers were accused of gang raping a woman and forcing her 12-year-old son to join in the attack, then beating him and pouring cleaning solution into his eyes.
Authorities allege Avion Lawson, 14, and Nathan Walker, 16, were among a group of about 10 masked suspects who forced their way into the woman's apartment in a crime-ridden housing project the night of June 18.
The two were being held without bail Friday on suspicion of armed sexual battery by multiple perpetrators, sexual performance by a child, armed home invasion and aggravated battery. Both were arrested this week, but formal charges had not been filed. Authorities said the two would be charged as adults.
"Any rape case is horrible but this takes it to another level, something you can't think of even in your worst dreams," police spokesman Ted White said.
According to the police report, a man knocked on the woman's door at about 9 p.m. and told her he had a flat tire. The mother and son, whom police have not identified, went outside and were ambushed by a group of gun-wielding suspects.
The victims told police they were forced back into their home and beaten and sexually assaulted. According to authorities, the men raped, sodomized and beat the woman, then forced her son to participate in the assault at gunpoint, making him have sex with his mother in front of them.
The boy was then beaten and had numerous household cleaning liquids poured into his eyes, according to the police report.
The suspects also stole a few hundred dollars worth of cash and jewelry, White said.
White said more arrests were expected, but he would not say whether authorities had identified additional suspects. The teens in custody were not cooperating, but Lawson confessed to taking part in the attack, White said. Walker has denied involvement, White said.
DNA evidence in a condom found in the victims' home linked Lawson to the crime, police said. Investigators also say they found a palm print belonging to Walker at the scene.
The victims did not suffer life-threatening injuries and have been released from the hospital, White said.
"They're going through the county victim services for counseling," he said.
Lawson lived in Dunbar Village, the hardscrabble project where the attack occurred. Walker was apparently visiting a friend there, White said.
Authorities believe the suspects all knew each other from the neighborhood, but they don't think they knew the victims directly.
Prosecutors have 21 days from the time a suspect is arrested to formally file charges. Lawson was arrested Tuesday. Walker was arrested Thursday.
Walker made a first court appearance on Friday, after which his father, also named Nathan Walker, spoke briefly.
"My son has a good heart," the elder Walker said outside court. "I can't believe my son would do something like this. I don't teach my son violence so I don't understand."
Walker's attorney, Robert Gershman, said Friday he intended to enter a not guilty plea on behalf of his client once charges are formally filed. He would not comment further.
A telephone message left at the office of Lawson's public defender was not immediately returned.
Squantos...your tag line....Tie these bastards behind a truck, and around the ankle, drive till there is nothing left. Some things insult us by breathing the same airas anything else on our planet.
Why would it be called a "hate crime"?
Were the victims intentionally selected because of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity etc?
They don't look very sorry.
No. They were falsely accused and the charges were dropped. Acquittal means they actually stood trial on the charges. The charges were fabrications of a drug addled prostitute and an ambitious district attorney playing the race card to get re-elected.
No. Your son is a disgusting sub-human beast.
‘Funny how the Associated Press coverage does not mention their race, yet if the two accused were white, it would be called a hate crime.’
Attention Idiot!
This is a horrific crime. Apparently Black on Black. Personally I believe they should be executed regardless of age.
However, when the Winkler woman shot her husband I don’t recall (and rightly so} a mention of her race.
Wanna go back to the good ole days when any black was identified regardless of the nature of the offense?
You’re right. However, I still don’t think the comparison between these monsters and the Duke players is a valid one.
Every one of the punk thugs that get arrested in Cincinnati, they trot the Mom out to a microphone to announce that her son "Would never do this. He's a good boy and he's turning his life around"...and the liberals swallow it, hook, line and sinker.
If nothing else, the thugs have learned to play liberals like a freakin fiddle.
They need a .40 caliber fix, just behind the ear.
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It's not a valid comparison. The Duke players committed no crime. These animals committed rape, sodomy and assault at gun point. There are victims, forensic evidence and two clearly identified suspects. There is no comparison at all.
Isn’t that special? The mother said she couldn’t believe that about her son. The father said...what? Oh,my, no father? What a surprise!
Yep..........agree. Read in the paper today that a POS the reporters falsely called a man had been biting a 3 year old girl for the past few years with her mothers knowledge. The girl had lost a lip, an ear and was “chewed” to pieces on other “regions” of her body..........
Were I given one wish it would be that such trash would be found innocent and released back on the street so real justice could find it’s proper path........the identifiable pieces left would be air dropped into the yard of every prison as warning to all career trash in training........
Metric therapy... would make it a 9mm.
Sick, sick, sick.
They better be.
These sick f***s should never see the light of day again.
Not "kids" like this.
Jails are full of kids someone thought was fixable.
Most of them just grow up and continue their crime waves.
Then they join Islam because they have been treated so badly.
The thought of killing and gutting a catfish comes to mind when they catch these perPs/PerVs
Maybe Bubba will teach him a lesson when he gets to the slammer.
[I can’t support death penalty minimum for rape. Look at the Duke case.]
And what would we learn from that?
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