Men Accused Of Forcing Mom To Have Sex With Son Go To Trial
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.
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« Previous 1 ... 5 6 7painful death to these animals.
I have my stones ready! Just put them in the circle and let me assist in stoning them to death… Eye for and eye they should get death. No if ands or buts about it.
i wish sharia law was been practised in america
those dudes should be put in a grinder alive!!!godalmighty such EVIL ON THIS EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“he’s very sorry for what he did”? Lock his worthless, miserable ass in prison with some of the most violent offenders possible. Maybe if they rape him every day, there will be Some justice
Literally one of the worst things I’ve ever heard of. So now they’ll all get life in jail, and our tax dollars will be spent on feeding and clothing these demons. I think in cases like this, when the crime is SO heinous and there’s overwhelming evidence, execution should be law (AFTER long periods of televised torture so as to show other would-be criminals that we’re not going to take this anymore). I’m sorry, but I just can’t think of another way…it’s gotten that bad…jail is obviously NOT enough of a deterrent.
this is F-ing disturbing these boys need to be locked up !!!!!!!!! what is goin on in this world every1 is krazy and just dont give a damn about anything or anybody
that man is starking mad…they should take him to a hospital and check his mental health first… http://join.crazyfruits.net
athat man is starking mad…they should take him to a hospital and check his mental health first…http://join.crazyfruits.net
omg!! just when you thought you heard it all,why the hell would that make the poor lady do that, as if the hadnt been threw enough!! please i hope they get life and burn in hell.
My God!! I’m just hearing about this story. What in the world kind of upbringing would make anyone do something like this to another human being? I hate that this had to happen to this family but I thank God for the fact that hopefully these kids will be off the streets so they can no longer harm anyone else. Now they also need some serious mental help because you have to be sick to do something like this. I pray they get the help they need. I don’t even want to imagine the pain this woman and her son have endured. May God bless them and all of you that read my message. Have a blessed and prosperous New Year.
GOD DID NOT SAY LOVE EVIL.. SOME WHITE MAN WROTE A BIBLE AND TOLD YOUR DUMB@SS TO BELIEVE IT AND YOU DO! LET THEM FRY ALIVE! EVIL DOERS GET NO MERCY. NOT WITH THE NATURE OF THIS DISGUSTING HORRENDOUS CRIME THAT HAS LEFT THIS FAMILY EMOTIONALLY PARALYZED! LOW DOWN DIRTY BASTARDS DESERVE WHATEVER THEY HAVE COMING!
Faithful_and_Favored….AMEN to that. Put em with some of those real hard cons who HATE rapists and those who prey on kids. I’m sure they’re saying they’re sorry now
Look at the comments, of everyone here, WE wonderin what is the matter with these boys? Look at ur comment, does it make U better to say things of hate, and how they should serve their punishment, God said LOVE, no matter the sin, none is greater or lessor, it is still a SIN…WE need prayer for everyone…EVERYONE!!…I pray for everyone to find salvation, for everyone has sinned, none greater, none lesser….
JESUS, please start touching our souls… You think you’re crazy into you read these stories. Too many sick people in this world. Get them in church please!!
I am truly at a lost for words right now. This really touched me. There is no place in this world for every single one of these animals. The punishment will never fit the crime in this situation. If this would have been a woman in my family. The police would never have gotten involved. Thats Real TAlk….
yeah, their sorry,,, sorry they got caught, sorry bastards, hall their
a@# off to prison for good, get them away from society, and i don’t give
a damn how they grew up, might try castration
Theres a book called Becoming Evil-how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing by james weller yall should check out, if you think this is a classified case……It might surprise people, but all it takes is one person to come up with this sick idea. Than out of fear and peer pressure, the others will follow along. Thats why its important, to raise our kids to think on their own, and have self confidance. This kind of thing happens daily across the globe. I hope the mother and child get serious counceling. Sadly, children are raised to be lil robots, that we act shocked when they succomb to peer pressure.
gross! that is so sick! they got what they deserved, but that will be a life long terrible memory.
All I can say is that I will pray for the mother and her son. But as for those that commited that inhumane crime, the one ya’ll need to be worried about is what God is going to do to ya’ll.
Wow, you have to sit back and ask yourself who or what got inside of their heads and twisted them out like that…that’s worse than reading a Donald Goines or Iceberg Slim novel…dayum!
Demonology 101. How to make fear and terrorize people. And why aren’t they calling this what it is: A HATE CRIME?
That’s the coldest stuff I done heard man..no body deserves that…I pray for the lil boy and his mother that’s unimaginable…them lil Bastards should suffer pain the rest of their lives…f**k a sorry..BLACK YOUTH WAKE UP…being hard and gansta is STUPID ya give yo life fo a life cause YOU AIN’T GET’n AWAY…life is hard enough..It’s like WE went back to SAVAGERY…KIDS DONE LOST THEIR MINDS and HOPE…and when there done with hell on earth they can began hell when their punk asses are gone
I’m sure the family of these two victims are hardly trying to hear “I’m sorry”! Throw them – no bury them, under the jail! Once they get in there I feel sorry for them, those prisoners are going to have a field day on them. And nope don’t segregate em’ either!
throw em in jail so they can get gang rapped. let them hold someone’s pocketts and force em to have oral sex with some big dude named bubba. then have bubba say i am sorry to see if it makes them feel any better. this story is just sad. i hope they get what is coming to them