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Two boys, ages 11 and 14, have been charged with sexual assault
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Posted on 12/11/2007 9:08:29 PM PST by abstracTT

AUSTIN, Texas — Two boys, ages 11 and 14, have been charged with breaking into the home of a 60-year-old woman and trying to sexually assault her, police said Tuesday.

The boys wore bandanas and gloves when they broke through a window in July, and one of them tried to sexually assault her but stopped when a heart device was triggered, Detective Scott Stanfield said.

The boys were charged with burglary with intent to commit sexual assault. The boys had a kit that included items to restrain the victim, Stanfield said.

A 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were standing outside the victim's house serving as lookouts, Stanfield said, but they have not been charged because they did not break into the house.

Police said they do not know a motive for the attack. No one was arrested until someone who had seen a suspect near the woman's house contacted police, Stanfield told the Austin American-Statesman.

The boys have been released from a juvenile detention center on the condition that they wear electronic monitoring devices, Stanfield said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Texas
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To: abstracTT

Neighbors aren’t always home. Grannies need to get guns.


21 posted on 12/11/2007 9:43:58 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: pandoraou812
Police said they do not know a motive for the attack.

Aaaa yap, that's a head scratcher alright. Where would an 11 yr old and a 14 yr old get an idea like this. I just don't know. /s

A 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were standing outside the victim's house serving as lookouts, ...

22 posted on 12/11/2007 9:47:15 PM PST by TigersEye (Love endures, never resting, expanding beyond all limits.)
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To: abstracTT

I wonder why they wanted to have sex with a grannie...That in itself is mind boggling to me. These little monsters shouldn’t have been let out IMHO. I don’t understand why the parents would want them out either. There is a line you have to draw & these scummers crossed it IMHO. I’ve raised 5 adult children who weren’t angels but had any of my sons at those ages sexually went after anyone I would not been an understanding mother. I would have left them in jail until the court dealt with them.


23 posted on 12/11/2007 9:47:55 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: abstracTT

I read on another article that they can’t be tried as adults. Why is that? They were planning adult stuff.


24 posted on 12/11/2007 9:48:19 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: abstracTT

These children need to be in a mental hospital for about 60 years.


25 posted on 12/11/2007 9:50:13 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

Yeah. That one in Huntsville.


26 posted on 12/11/2007 9:51:03 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: abstracTT

Note to all elderly women and men in the Austin community . . . lock and load.


27 posted on 12/11/2007 10:02:07 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: abstracTT

hahaha hidden level. the only games worth playing are ones you can use big head mode, or a bonus stage where you have to beat up a car.


28 posted on 12/11/2007 10:23:46 PM PST by Disciplinemisanthropy (...and that, people, is what grinds my gears.)
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To: abstracTT
Must there always be a new kind of sick? Where were the parents? Where did they get this idea? What's wrong with them that this seemed like an appropriate activity?

I can't believe the look outs aren't being charged. That's incomprehensible. I sure expected more from Texas justice.

29 posted on 12/12/2007 1:42:09 AM PST by newzjunkey (“Market forces” demanded serfs and market forces got them. - Kolokotronis)
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To: pandoraou812
" I know they would be sitting in juvie as I wouldn't take them home."

Mine'd have ta' wait a week or so before he could.

30 posted on 12/12/2007 3:21:02 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: newzjunkey
I sure expected more from Texas justice.

Same here, but remember this is Austin TX, home of ronnie earle the DA. He is too busy chasing nekid men thru the woods beating a cooked chicken with a hammer and going after Tom DeLay.

BTW, what the article DOES NOT address, is that this woman had cancer and was on chemo. One doctor said the attack could have killed her.

31 posted on 12/12/2007 5:05:00 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I've been too busy for FR this weekend, because I did the things I refuse to let the invaders do.)
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To: newzjunkey
can't believe the look outs aren't being charged. That's incomprehensible. I sure expected more from Texas justice.

Laws are odd everywhere, including Texas. For sometime now, the law has been on the books that if a perp is aiding and abetting another perp who commits a murder, the perp who aids and abets the actual killer can and will be tried for the murder just as if he had done it himself regardless of intent - as in the whine, "I didn't know he was going to kill someone".

A good example is the killers of Kenneth Byrd (truck dragging) incident and the killing of the Irving policeman on Christmas 3 years ago. All got the death penalty, not the just trigger man.

So, the law obviously doesnt extend to juvie rape. Too bad.

32 posted on 12/12/2007 5:14:57 AM PST by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: TexasRedeye
... Kenneth Byrd (truck dragging) ...

Ummmmm, "James" Byrd, right?

33 posted on 12/12/2007 7:39:57 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: abstracTT

Ahh, yes! Austin, the liberal oasis of Texas!


34 posted on 12/12/2007 7:42:48 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: TexasRedeye
For sometime now, the law has been on the books that if a perp is aiding and abetting another perp who commits a murder, the perp who aids and abets the actual killer can and will be tried for the murder ...

I served once on the jury trying a guy for murder, although he was only the "lookout" while someone was actually shooting someone.

We convicted him.

He was sentenced to death.

35 posted on 12/12/2007 7:49:30 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

OOPs, sorry I got the name wrong but I got the facts correct!


36 posted on 12/12/2007 9:42:34 AM PST by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: MaxMax

I guess in Austin they don’t bust the lookouts in bank robberies either? Sounds like the next heist lookout will have a GOOD defense to malicious prosecution now.


37 posted on 12/15/2007 1:25:17 PM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: 2harddrive
I agree and this inaction sets a bad precedent in favor of future criminals.
38 posted on 12/15/2007 2:21:48 PM PST by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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