On the 18th of June in 2007, at 9 in the evening, a 35-year-old woman came home to her apartment in the Dunbar Village housing project in West Palm Beach, Florida. She had just finished up a long day of delivering telephone books and she was tired.
She had immigrated to the United States in 2000 from Haiti with her then five-year-old son, hoping for a better life.
Before she went upstairs to bed, she and her son had started to make something downstairs in the kitchen for dinner when there was a knock at the door.
A young black male was at the door, his hair in braids. The teenager told her that her truck had a few flat tires and that she should come and look at them.
Following the apparent “good samaritan” outside, she hadn’t taken more than a few steps when three teenagers - all wearing masks and all carrying guns - pointed the weapons at her and told her to get back into her apartment.
They hit her, knocking her to the floor. They pushed her son down to the floor as well.
They demanded money, which she didn’t have.
Incensed at the lack of easy money in the apartment, the four boys beat the woman and her son, stripped the woman of her clothing, took her to the bedroom and raped her over and over, with each boy taking his turn.
Her son was held at gunpoint, forced to watch.
As they raped and sodomized her, she cried out in pain and fear.
Nobody came to help, not then, not when she heard her son cry out when they stripped him naked as well, sporadically breaking lightbulbs and plates on his head.
Up to five other teenagers did arrive, but they had come to join in on the raping and cruelty.
These other teenagers also raped and sodomized the woman, recording it all for posterity on a cell phone.
Eventually, after everyone had their turn with the woman in her upstairs bedroom, they brought her son upstairs at gunpoint. Holding a gun to the 12-year-old’s head, the gang forced his mother to perform oral sex on him.
It is unclear as to whether or not mother and son were forced to have sex with each other.
When everyone had finished abusing the woman sexually, they forced her into the bathtub, which they filled with vinegar and water. They poured common household cleaning products over her, such as hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, nail polish remover and ammonia-based cleaning solution.
Some ammonia was also thrown into her son’s eyes.
They forced a bar of soap into her vagina, hoping to remove physical evidence.
While they were doing this, the gang also threw ammonia into her son’s eyes.
After the group was convinced that they had disposed of the evidence, someone suggested setting the mother and her son on fire. After searching for - but not finding - a lighter, the group left, warning the pair that if they got out of the tub, they’d be killed.
30 minutes later, while the mother and her son were still in the tub, crying in pain, one of the teenagers returned to sexually assault the woman one more time. He wrote a man’s name and 6-CO - a different man and a different gang than the one that had gang-raped this family - on a piece of paper, telling her that he could be found on Sixth street.
As he left, he took the Playstation 2 with him.
The woman and her son stayed in the apartment for two hours after the attack. Nobody came to investigate the screams, nobody called the police for help.
Because their assailants had stolen their cell phone, their home phone and their fax machine, they were unable to call for assistance themselves.
It was a long walk to the Good Samaritan Medical Center, but they walked the mile together, two hours after the attack ended.
They were badly injured. The 12-year-old had to be immobilized for more than two days on his hospital bed, with bandages covering both eyes and a two-inch gash on the top of his skull.
There was a mild public outcry.
14-year-old Avion Lawson was the first to be arrested. He confessed after investigators let him know that his DNA had been found in a condom recovered at the apartment. While being driven to the Juvenile Assessment Center, Avion called some friends and laughingly told them what was going on. Avion Lawson has been charged with armed sexual battery by multiple perpetrators, armed home invasion, aggravated battery and sexual assault.
The next idiot to be picked up was 16-year-old Nathan Walker. Nathan Walker is a seventh-grade dropout, who called it quits after failing three times. His fingerprint was found at the apartment and his DNA was found on the outside of the condom Avion Lawson had used. When Nathan Walker was brought into the police station, he flipped out, throwing chairs at the walls until guards were able to put him in handcuffs and leg restraints.
On July 15th, Jakaris Taylor, a 15-year-old whose younger brother played with the 12-year-old he assaulted, was arrested. During interrogation, he was asked why he didn’t stop his friends, to which he replied, “I don’t know.” When he was asked why he did it, he shrugged his shoulders.
The latest rapist to be charged is 18-year-old Tommy Lee Poindexter, who was, on August 16th, indicted by a grand jury that saw “unspecified physical evidence” and charged him with sexual battery, kidnapping and burglary. - 14 counts in all.
Although Mr. Poindexter denied being involved and his mother, 44-year-old Harriet Rodgers, has claimed her precious Tommy was at home with her that night, the evidence prosecutors presented was considered “fairly damning.”
Prosecutors are chomping at the bit, pledging to ask for the maximum penalty for all the teens involved and refusing to entertain the idea of plea bargains for anyone.
Despite the youth of the individuals involved, they all face the possibility of life in an adult prison.
No juvenile hall for these dogs.
West Palm Beach police spokesman Peter Robbins told the press, “We’re certainly developing more suspects and anticipate more arrests.”
Too bad the death penalty is off the table in this particular instance. Life in prison seems too good.
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jesus, one person would be bad enough but i did not think there was anywhere on this planet that you would find a group of ppl willing to do this and not one of them trying to stop it!!! discusting! they all deserve to die in jail, they should be made to sit in a bath of acid and die a horrible death! sickos.
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Oh my GOD. What is wrong with people? What inspires them to want to do this kind of thing to other people? It’s just sick.
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The entire neighborhood needs to be cleaned and burned.
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Words fail me. MIld public outcry?? People should be up in arms that this is what fourteen year olds are capable of! And like someone has already said - it wasn’t just one sick individual but a gang. Here’s hoping that they are tried as adults and that they are given life sentences - just like they’re victims now have. Unbelievable.
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The police should wade it to that complex and wipe the scum out. I live in Ireland and and bad areas are cleaned up with police and if there afraid to go there vigilantes. No messing blow them out of it.
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Sounds like a bunch of idiots to me. Good thing they got caught though. The poor mother and child… =0(
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nathan walker ha we support him and his family we work and pay for this genius to eat wow harriet rodgers parent of the yr also a welfare product welfare animals we pay for this trash to survive only in america they would starve 2 death in africa
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Cat reply on April 30, 2008:
Will (comment #7): you’re a moron. first, learn how to write a complete sentence. then, learn how to be a human being. i suggest an emphasis on being just a little less bigoted.
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does anybody know if there’s been a verdict for this losers already? admin, do you perhaps know about that? i hope they get the hardest sentence possible. what a couple of animals… scarry that they can life in this world.
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These things that are worse than some humans labelled as animals are just plain sick. Whatever they get is too good for what they did to the Mother and Child.
Let’s just hope they are treated as well in prison as they treated their victims.
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I would have begged them to kill me before I performed any such act on my child..Those sick cowardly dogs…I have two sons and two daughters….SCARY
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OMG!!! I honestly thought this can’t be true! Then googled it and unfortunately saw it was! THOSE POOR PEOPLE! WTF! You mean to tell me NO ONE HEARD A THING! WHat’s WORSE is Ya know they did and did NOTHING ABOUT IT! WHAT A FUCKING ASS HOLE TO THEN Take off with the kids play station! I AM APPALLED!!!
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The problem is that there are alot of areas in America that are so similar to Dunbar Village Projects and most of the people living in all most every Project building are afraid to report any crime because they know that them or one of there love ones will get hurt…I knew several young kids that were actually being forced to sell drugs for a kingpin in one of the worst projects in our city and the police couldn’t do a thing because everyone was afraid.This isn’t a movie where a good cop comes along and shoot up the bad guys and everyone lives happily ever after because in real life usually someone innocent always get hurt….
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Man. Why always the innocent people? That’s so messed up. I agree with some people, clean it up and burn it to the ground. I hope they all die a horrible death. I hope they get there arms burnt off and the rest of their bodies eaten by rabid chickens.
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