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[Jolie Rouge]

Police: Woman forced into sex with son
By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer
47 minutes ago

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. "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 pending, but he would not say if 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.

A call to Lawson's public defender was not immediately returned. It was not known if Walker has an attorney.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_on_re_us/gang_rape_teens;_ylt=AlVlZmnkD5GM49kjzzkedQCs0NUE



What is WRONG with people today ??

[JKATHERINE]

Wtf??

[DtroitPunk]

HMMM...I wonder if the woman and child were white or if this was another black on black crime?

[freeby4me]

HMMM...I wonder if the woman and child were white or if this was another black on black crime?

Either way its sick but im guessing its a black on black, if it was a white woman and child I would assume the news would say something. They really like to flame the fire when given the chance. Sad.

[DBackFan]

Either way its sick but im guessing its a black on black, if it was a white woman and child I would assume the news would say something. They really like to flame the fire when given the chance. Sad.

Not that it makes ANY difference but where in the heck are you reading that ANYONE was black or white?

[DtroitPunk]

By the names of the Suspects I would think they were black and the crime ocurred in a housing project.

But if the victims were white the media OFTEN doesnt cover this. They love to show any instance of whites mistreating blacks but dont want to show black on white crime.

[PrincessArky]

can anyone give me one good reason these little pricks shouldnt be put to death

[DtroitPunk]

can anyone give me one good reason these little pricks shouldnt be put to death

NOT me. I would give the injection if noone else was willing to administer it.

[Katt]

I don't the colors matter as much as the fact that these two are sociopaths and what they did is horrific.

[Jolie Rouge]

[quote=DtroitPunk] By the names of the Suspects I would think they were black and the crime ocurred in a housing project.

But if the victims were white the media OFTEN doesnt cover this. They love to show any instance of whites mistreating blacks but dont want to show black on white crime.[quote]

A case to illustrate the point : http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-information/543604-monsters-walk-among-us.html?highlight=Monsters

[Bubblescc]

[quote=DtroitPunk] By the names of the Suspects I would think they were black and the crime ocurred in a housing project.

But if the victims were white the media OFTEN doesnt cover this. They love to show any instance of whites mistreating blacks but dont want to show black on white crime.[quote]

A case to illustrate the point : http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-information/543604-monsters-walk-among-us.html?highlight=Monsters

Jolie that story title Monsters walk among us is one that I cant get out of my head, sick stuff like this is getting more and more common.....and when you brought that story to our attention I emailed 3 different tv stations and noone ever responded to be.

this story is so sad, I dont know how the mother and son can recover from this, how freaking horrible!:mad:

[Shann]

omg this is so disgusting... i feel for the mother and son and what an awkward position they have been put in. :mad: just sick sick sick

[freeby4me]

Not that it makes ANY difference but where in the heck are you reading that ANYONE was black or white?

I didnt read it anywhere. I was just replying to what DP said.

[Jolie Rouge]

Florida mother and son are attacked [/b]
By BRIAN SKOLOFF and JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press Writers
Tue Jul 10, 5:57 PM ET

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Mother and son huddled together, battered and beaten, in the bathroom — sobbing, wondering why no one came to help. Surely the neighbors had heard their screams. The walls are thin, the screen doors flimsy in this violence-plagued housing project on the edge of downtown.

For three hours, the pair say, they endured sheer terror as the 35-year-old Haitian immigrant was raped and sodomized by up to 10 masked teenagers and her 12-year-old son was beaten in another room.

Then, mother and son were reunited to endure the unspeakable: At gunpoint, the woman was forced to perform oral sex on the boy, she later told a TV station.

Afterward, they were doused with household cleansers, perhaps in a haphazard attempt to scrub the crime scene, or maybe simply to torture the victims even more. The solutions burned the boy's eyes.

The thugs then fled, taking with them a couple of hundred dollars' worth of cash, jewelry and cell phones.

In the interview with WPTV, the mother described how she and her son sobbed in the bathroom, too shocked to move. Then, in the dark of night, they walked a mile to the hospital because they had no phone to call for help.

Two teenagers — a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old — have been arrested. Eight others are being sought.

Welcome to Dunbar Village, a place residents call hell.

___

"So a lady was raped. Big deal," resident Paticiea Matlock said with disgust. "There's too much other crime happening here."

Built in 1940 to house poor blacks in then-segregated West Palm Beach, Dunbar Village's 226 units sit just blocks from million-dollar condos on the Intracoastal Waterway. Billionaires lounge on beachfront property just a few miles away on Palm Beach.

The public housing project's one- and two-story barracks-style buildings are spread across 17 grassy, tree-lined acres surrounded by an 8-foot iron fence. The average rent is about $150 a month.

Almost 60 percent of the households in the area that includes Dunbar Village were below the poverty level in 2000, according to Census figures. Only 19 percent of the area's residents had high school degrees. About 9 percent of the adults were unemployed, nearly triple the state average.

Teenagers with gold-plated teeth wander the streets. Drug dealers hang out on nearby sidewalks. Trash bin lids are open. Flies hover over dirty diapers. Clothes dry on sagging lines.

Since the June 18 attack, police have increased patrols in the area, blocked off one entrance and will soon install surveillance cameras.

"It took this to make that happen?" Matlock, a 32-year-old single mother of three, snarled.

As in other blighted neighborhoods across the country where criminals seem to have free rein, residents here live in fear. Snitches get stitches, they say. Or worse.

"I try to be in my house no later than 7, and I don't come out," said Citoya Greenwood, 33, who lives in Dunbar with her 4-year-old daughter. "I don't even answer my door anymore." On the Fourth of July, "we didn't know if we was hearing gunshots or fireworks."

___

Avion Lawson, 14, and Nathan Walker, 16, will be charged as adults in the assault and gang rape, prosecutors said. They are jailed without bail.

Lawson's DNA was found in a condom at the crime scene, and he admitted involvement, authorities say. Police say Walker's palm print was discovered inside the home. He denies being there. His attorney says he will plead not guilty. Lawson's public defender did not return telephone messages.

Walker and Lawson did not live at Dunbar but visited often. Lawson stayed with his grandmother there. Walker came to hang out and play basketball. Dunbar has become the place to be for wayward black teens, residents and neighborhood kids say.

Walker and Lawson both grew up mostly fatherless, bouncing between homes. Walker's family sometimes lived in old cars or abandoned houses, said his mother, Ruby Nell Walker.

"We've never really had a real home," said Naporcha Walker, Nathan's 15-year-old sister.

He dropped out of school after spending three years in seventh grade. The family lives on food stamps and recently had to pawn their television and radio, Ruby Walker said.

"I just feel like he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. ... My son is not a rapist," she said.

Ruby Walker said she herself was raped twice, at ages 7 and 12. She said that just days before the Dunbar attack, someone tried to rape her again, and "my son came to me crying and said he wouldn't ever do that to anyone."

She has had her own problems with the law — at least nine arrests on charges such as disorderly conduct, aggravated assault and battery, according to state records.

Avion Lawson was a headstrong kid, never listening to his mother, said his cousin, Cassandra Ellis.

"I knew he was bad, but I never pictured him to be that type of bad," Ellis said. She said one traumatic experience may have scarred him — watching his older sister fatally stab a boyfriend.

"It was an accident. She killed her boyfriend. They was fighting, there was a knife," Ellis said. "He was there when it happened."

___

City officials are quick to note that neither Lawson nor Walker lived at Dunbar, and say they are doing their best to make the place safe.

As quickly as overhead lights can be replaced, they are shot out, so officials are now considering bulletproof lighting.

"Isn't that quite a commentary on what the situation is there?" said City Commissioner Molly Douglas, whose district includes part of Dunbar. "Dunbar Village is a hell hole. They shouldn't have to live in fear."

More officers are hitting the streets, but "I just bow my head sometimes and think we just couldn't possibly have enough officers ever to take care of all of this," Douglas said.

Laurel Robinson, head of the city's housing authority, said that up until about four years ago, the federal government provided the city with $160,000 a year for security in public housing projects, but Congress did away with the money.

"Every family housing project in the country has suffered because of it," she said.

____

The rape victim and her son have not returned to their apartment since the attack.

The woman fled Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with her son seven years ago in search of a better life. With no money, they landed in Dunbar. The two almost instantly became targets for crime, standing out as Haitians among the mostly American-born blacks in the housing project. Her car and the boy's bicycle were stolen. Their house was ransacked.

On the night of the attack, she was lured outside by a teenager who knocked on the door and said her car had a flat. Nine more teens, their faces shrouded with T-shirts, barged in, she told authorities. They brandished guns and demanded money, then went beyond the imaginable.

"I was so scared," the woman told WPTV. "Some of them had sex with me twice, some of them had sex with me three times. They're beating me up. They make me do those things over and over. The man with the big gun, he put the gun inside of me."

She said that when she was forced to perform oral sex on her own son, she told the boy: "I know you love me, and I love you, too."

Investigators say it is not clear exactly why the thugs picked her house.

The boy's sight has returned. Both mother and son are seeking counseling.

"I have to try and talk to him every day. He's so angry," the woman said. "He said we never should have moved to Dunbar Village."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_us/gang_rape;_ylt=Ar3B6cA2RLPWd40xSrmOQnms0NUE

[PrincessArky]

I can't believe that lady actually said big deal about the whole thing

bet she wouldn't be saying that if it had been her

[freeby4me]

Laurel Robinson, head of the city's housing authority, said that up until about four years ago, the federal government provided the city with $160,000 a year for security in public housing projects, but Congress did away with the money.

But of course they did away with the money, there's so many other "more important" things that could be done right?? AAARRRGGGHHHH hearing sh*t like this just makes me so mad. All those "guys" should be lined up and shot to death and aired on national TV as a warning for the next one.

[27Summers]

But of course they did away with the money, there's so many other "more important" things that could be done right?? AAARRRGGGHHHH hearing sh*t like this just makes me so mad. All those "guys" should be lined up and shot to death and aired on national TV as a warning for the next one.

I agree with that one. What a heinous act.

[dv8grl]

Fla. men accused of torturing mom, son go to trial


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090817/ap_on_re_us/us_gang_rape_teens;_ylt=AkYSnz76csgZKgOrOtya9WRG2o cA;_ylu=X3oDMTJwb3VocTk5BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODE3L3 VzX2dhbmdfcmFwZV90ZWVucwRwb3MDMTIEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2lu YXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDZmxhbWVuYWNjdXNl

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Unspeakable acts happened to a woman and her young son one balmy June night in the projects. On that, everyone can agree.

As many as 10 masked teenagers terrorized the then 35-year-old Haitian immigrant and her 12-year-old son in their home. It will be up to a jury being selected this week to determine whether the assailants included two suspects whose trial begins Tuesday.

Police say Nathan Walker, now 18, and Tommy Lee Poindexter, now 20, were among the group that sexually assaulted and beat the woman and her son after barging into their apartment in a public housing complex minutes from downtown West Palm Beach.

Even defense attorneys agree this will be a tough case to win — solid evidence, DNA, fingerprints and a co-defendant set to testify against the others.

Walker and Poindexter have pleaded not guilty to all charges, including sexual battery, kidnapping and burglary. Others are still being sought, and the investigation remains open.

Details of the crime itself are enough to make a jury emotional.

It was June 18, 2007, when police say the teens burst into the woman's apartment. Nothing but sheer terror can describe what happened next.

For three hours, the victims say, they endured horror as the mother was gang-raped and sodomized and her son beaten in another room.

Then, the mother was forced to perform oral sex on her son at gunpoint.

Afterward, they were doused with household cleansers, perhaps in a haphazard attempt to scrub the crime scene. The solutions burned the boy's eyes.

The woman would later describe how she and her son sobbed in the bathroom, too shocked to move. Then, in the dark of night, they walked a mile to the hospital because the attackers stole their phones.

Authorities say DNA evidence found on condoms inside the apartment and fingerprints identified the defendants as the culprits.

Walker and Poindexter will stand trial together, though each will have separate juries.

Two others — now 16-year-old Avion Lawson and now 17-year-old Jakaris Taylor — were set to stand trial in September.

However, Lawson pleaded guilty last week to all 14 charges, including sexual battery, burglary, kidnapping, grand theft and promoting sexual performance of a child.

"He's very sorry for what he did," Lawson's attorney, Bert Winkler, told a judge last week as the guilty plea was entered. "He's taking responsibility for everything he did and is going to cooperate fully with the state and testify if called."

Lawson, like the others, faces a maximum 11 life sentences plus 50 years, according to sentencing guidelines. While the judge has broad discretion, he still faces up to 50 years in prison at the least.

Winkler did not return telephone messages or e-mails from The Associated Press. Taylor's attorney also did not return messages seeking comment. Poindexter's lawyer and prosecutors declined to talk about the case.

Walker's attorney, Robert Gershman, acknowledged all the evidence makes the trial tough to win.

"And it will be difficult to seat a jury of fair people in this case because the allegations are such that they'll hear them, and there is automatically going to be a presumption against my client, no question," Gershman said.

[Jolie Rouge]

Thanks for updating the story with the new info...

[gmyers]

How does a boy get over having sex with his mom even though he was forced to do it. Can you imagine how messed up he'll be and it'll probably effect his relationship with his mother from now on. Those sick perverts need to really be punished for doing this to both of them.

[jasmine]

wow, this is just over whelming for me. Really got to me, I cried through every post reading.... my heart just breaks for this mother and son. How horrid and heart wrenching to even fathom having to go through what they did.
You know what, I have a son, like I'm sure alot of you mothers here do also...
and that's all I have to say.

[Njean31]

this right here is why i have guns. i'd love to have been able to stop these evil monsters in their tracks.