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16-year-old girl charged as an adult in sex attack
nwi.com ^ | April 18, 2011 | Bob Kasarda

Posted on 04/19/2011 5:32:20 AM PDT by FreeManDC

VALPARAISO | Prosecutors opted Monday to exercise their right to charge a 16-year-old Valparaiso girl as an adult on accusations of handcuffing, confining for hours and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy last week.

April Kuchta, of the 300 block of Roseland Terrace, was charged with felony counts of criminal deviate conduct, criminal confinement, intimidation and sexual battery, as well as a misdemeanor battery charge.

The seriousness of the first two offenses provide the option for adult charges without the more typical waiver process, said Deputy Prosecutor Tim Haraminac.

Kuchta was transferred Monday from juvenile detention to the Porter County Jail.

The Times policy is to withhold the names of criminal suspects younger than 18, unless waived to adult court.

A 14-year-old girl, who also was charged with the offense, admitted in juvenile court Monday to battery and confinement charges, as well as to charges from earlier unrelated incidents.

The girl, who wept during her hearing, told the court she used a fake knife and denied stabbing the boy. A sentencing hearing was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. May 9.

The charging information, which reveals far more details than were released last week by police, accuses Kuchta of luring the boy, who has special needs, to her house via text messages to talk between 8 and 9 p.m. April 9. The boy then reportedly was led at knifepoint to the kitchen where he was handcuffed behind his back and poked with the knife.

Kuchta is accused of recording some of the incident with her cell phone while forcing the boy to make humiliating statements. She also is accused of sexually assaulting him and pleading with him for sex.

The boy allegedly was left in handcuffs for two hours covered completely with a blanket, during which time the younger girl is accused of placing tissue in his mouth and taping it shut. The girls are accused of inviting others over to witness the confinement.

An unknown male reportedly freed the boy at one point. He allegedly was recaptured at knifepoint and placed back in handcuffs by Kuchta, only to be freed again by an unknown person and bitten on the arm by Kuchta during a struggle for the knife.


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1 posted on 04/19/2011 5:32:22 AM PDT by FreeManDC
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To: FreeManDC

Where is the "Just Damn" guy when you need him?

Something is seriously wrong with our youth...
2 posted on 04/19/2011 5:35:33 AM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: TSgt

Well, at least they aren’t praying in school anymore!


3 posted on 04/19/2011 5:37:17 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: TSgt

Guilty!


4 posted on 04/19/2011 5:38:24 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Today, if you build a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. RReagan)
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To: FreeManDC

porn addiction??


5 posted on 04/19/2011 5:40:35 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: FreeManDC

There is nothing funny about this girl leading a mentally disabled boy into a house, handcuffing him, “poking” him with a knife, humiliating him, leaving him tied and covered and having others witness the event. Then doing it again. I wouldn’t even call this sexual assault. Its taking advantage of a disabled person in the worst way. People like this girl need to be locked up for a long time. But society finds things like this amusing because its a girl forcing “sex” (if you can call this assault sex) on a guy. She will get off easy and its a shame.


6 posted on 04/19/2011 5:46:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
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To: FreeManDC

NOW gone wild.

In the words of the buzzard, “Patience hell!! I’m going to kill me something”


7 posted on 04/19/2011 5:47:16 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: Mich Patriot

Toss her into an adult dyke prison and film it.


8 posted on 04/19/2011 5:48:40 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: FreeManDC

This is why we need sex education in maternity wards. It’s never too early to start teaching our children about sex.

Goat choking sarcasm off.


9 posted on 04/19/2011 5:52:35 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Opinionated Blowhard; FreeManDC
What this was is sadistic.

This was a sadistic 16 year old girl getting some sadistic pleasure in torturing a mentally challenged male while also enjoying the pleasure of exerting power over the younger girl.

10 posted on 04/19/2011 5:52:45 AM PDT by Pontiac
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To: FreeManDC

As screwed up and these two girls are its refreshing to see that someone actually tried to stop her.

These stories usually don’t have anyone trying to stop the deviant.


11 posted on 04/19/2011 5:52:57 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
She will get off easy and its a shame

I agree with the sentiment of your post, but I'm not so sure about getting off easy. She's being charged as an adult, so the prosecutor isn't messing around here.

Incidentally, this reminds me a bit of the Sylvia Likens death in Indianapolis. Sadly, Indiana seems to have a bit of a history with this type of behavior and, although this is Valpo, Likens is sort of etched in Indiana's collective consciousness. No one wants a repeat--which means nipping this in the bud.

12 posted on 04/19/2011 5:53:49 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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To: TSgt; Lazamataz

It would hit Laz...


13 posted on 04/19/2011 5:54:20 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 817 of our national holiday from reality. - That 3 AM phone call? Voicemail...)
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To: TSgt

Jailhouse justice will involve a gang of dykes, a strap-on and a stout 2x4.

Cons are not fond of people abusing the handicapped.


14 posted on 04/19/2011 5:55:25 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: FreeManDC

No telling how far it might have gone. Thank God that there were two people there with enough compassion to step in and help the boy.


15 posted on 04/19/2011 5:56:15 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: TSgt

She has Jim Morrison’s face. DOORS


16 posted on 04/19/2011 5:56:41 AM PDT by Broker (Mabuhay!)
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To: FreeManDC

Where were the parents of these two deviants?
Where were the parents of the special needs boy?
Where were the parents of any of these kids?.......................


17 posted on 04/19/2011 5:58:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Mitt Romney: The Harold Stassen of the 21st century........)
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To: TSgt
Something is seriously wrong with our youth...

yes, it is called parents who don't gi\/e a ______!!!

18 posted on 04/19/2011 6:09:58 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Wanted a keyboard with a working '\/' key!!)
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To: FreeManDC

I’ll bet there are dead animals in her past, and dead adults in her future.


19 posted on 04/19/2011 6:15:20 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

BS. Prison is populated by scumbags. Where did the notion that convicts are upright avengers come from. An urban myth at best. This girl will fit in just well. In prison she will be amongst her own kind.


20 posted on 04/19/2011 6:41:20 AM PDT by gusty
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