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  • Dunbar suspect refuses to go to court

    Teen charged in Dunbar Village assault refuses to come to court:

    Yesterday a hearing was scheduled for all of the suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape. Except one of them refused to leave his jail cell. That one of them would be Tommie Lee Poindexter.

    “It’s not an invitation. It’s a directive,” said Circuit Judge Sandra McSorley. “Mr. Poindexter is not at liberty to decline.”

    McSorley then authorized the sheriff to use “reasonable” means to bring him over.

    How cool would it have been if the judge actually used the air quotes when she said “reasonable”?

    I haven’t seen any follow-ups to see if or how Poindexter was brought to court.

  • More arrests coming in Dunbar Village case

    More arrests sought in Dunbar Village gang rape case:

    Police have asked the State Attorney’s Office to issue arrest warrants for two more juveniles in the notorious Dunbar Village rape case, where a mother and son were brutalized for hours, West Palm Beach police said Friday.

    One of the four teens arrested, Jakaris Taylor, accepted a plea deal that required his testimony. He identified two other juvenile defendants and police filed the charges with the State Attorney’s Office.

    Hopefully, those arrest warrants will be issued and all scumbags involved will be brought to justice.

  • Sharpton earns the wrath of bloggers that matter

    Women not tolerating Sharpton’s rape rant:

    It seems that I’m not the only one who found Al Sharpton’s comments in the Dunbar Village rape suspects distasteful.

    It seems that Sharpton has also gotten on the bad side of a group of black female bloggers.

    “Sharpton bills himself as a spokesman for the voiceless,” wrote Tonyaa Weathersbee in BlackAmericaWeb.com “Too bad this time he decided to lend his voice to the ones who needed it the least – and guarantee that more raped black women will continue to suffer in silence.”

    Remember, Al Sharpton thinks it’s a disgrace that basically a gang who raped a woman and forced her to have sex with her 12-year-old son should be out on bail because some white teens from Boca Raton that raped two girls after getting them drunk are out.

    “Am I the only one that sees some GLARING DISTINCTIONS in these two cases that have absolutely nothing to do with the race of the defendants or am I missing something?” wrote blogger Arlene Fenton.

    Fenton organized a letter-writing campaign against the local NAACP, Sharpton and his National Action Network for using the west Boca case to make victims of the Dunbar Village teenagers.

    “It is breathtaking that the National Action Network brain trust can’t seem to comprehend the difference between a home invasion by masked gunmen who torture, rape, sodomize, cut, burn, and beat their victims for THREE HOURS and culminate the event with crime against nature committed against a 12-year-old child … and a case involving NONE of those facts,” Fenton wrote.

    Of course, being the politician that he is Sharpton is backpedaling…

    Sharpton, who spoke with Fenton and Weathersbee on his radio show this week, now claims he never wanted the Dunbar rape suspects to be free pending trial.

    Well, at least some bloggers got to Sharpton even if it wasn’t this northern white boy. Ladies, you have my sincere thanks.

  • Sharpton on Dunbar Village suspects

    Sharpton says Dunbar Village defendants being treated unfairly:

    I normally don’t blog political anymore. I got burnt out on politics during the ’04 election period. The political discussion during that time became reduced to a shouting match between all parties and actual discourse was thrown out the window. However, I will blog about the politics of crime if I’m so moved. It took the Reverend Al Sharpton to move me to blog about the subject I find so distasteful.

    When Rev. Sharpton isn’t playing the race card he actually does do some good for the black community at large. I specifically remember Rev. Sharpton being on America’s Most Wanted trying to help find the killer of Chanel Petro Nixon. So not all of Sharpton’s antics are that bad.

    But this one is. Sharpton is saying that the suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape are being unfairly treated since they’ve been held with no bond. Meanwhile, the suspects from the Boca Raton gang rape are free on bond.

    On one hand, I agree with the Reverend Sharpton that the Boca teens should be held with no bond. On the other hand, Rev. Sharpton is picking the wrong example to use to make his point.

    In the Dunbar case, a group of teens stormed the victim’s place of residence, robbed her, raped her and then forced her to have sex with her own son.

    In the Boca case, some teens got some girls drunk to the point of passing out and then took advantage of them.

    The severity of the Dunbar Village case is what’s keeping those suspects behind bars, not their skin color.

  • Plea reached in Dunbar Village rape case

    Plea reached in Dunbar Village rape case

    Dunbar rape suspect pleads guilty, gets 20 years:

    Well, I knew it was only a matter of time before one of the suspects in the horrendous Dunbar Village gang rape case would turn on his homeboys.

    16-year-old Jakaris Taylor pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and two counts of armed sexual battery. To refresh your memory, Taylor and his cohorts are accused of storming the apartment of a woman and her son, gang-raped the woman and forced her to have sex with her son.

    In the plea, Taylor was sentenced to 20 years behind bars, sparing him three consecutive life sentences. Part of the plea requires him to testify against the other suspects.

  • Dunbar Village suspect trying to cut a deal

    Dunbar Village suspect trying to cut a deal

    Suspect, 14, offers to tell all in West Palm Beach rape:

    One of the suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape case is trying to cut a deal with prosecutors. 14-year-old Avion Lawson is trying to say that his life was threatened by one of the other suspects if he didn’t help rape the victim.

    Lawson, who was arrested July 3, denied involvement in the crime before DNA evidence on a condom linked him to the June 18 rape. In his letters he said he, too, was a victim and blamed the attack on another suspect, Tommy Lee Poindexter, 18.

    “He had a gun to my head and I couldn’t do nothing,” Lawson wrote. “If I would of ran I would of got shot or be dead. So I had no choice. He put it to my head and said ‘Do it.’ And when I stopped I tried to leave. He told me to get back down or he’ll kill me.”

    Lawson was apologetic in one of the letters to Belohlavek and said it was “stupid of me doing that.”

    “If you would of seen what happened, it’s like your worst nightmare,” Lawson wrote. “Especially what happened to the boy. And it seems like they were having fun. They were laughing and videoing.”

    Lawson wants to go home. He said in letters that he is only allowed three showers a week and stays in his jail cell 23 hours a day.

    “I cry every night,” he wrote. “I just want to go home. I just want to go home.”

    You should have thought of that before you and your friends decided to break in to that woman’s home.

  • Dissension in Dunbar

    Dissension in Dunbar

    Jail letters talk strategy in Dunbar Village rape case, records show:

    It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the Dunbar Village rape case. In case you’ve forgotten, that was when a bunch of teen thugs broke into this woman’s apartment, gang-raped her, and forced her to have sex with her 12-year-old son.

    It seems that there is dissension in their ranks.

    Deputies seized two letters from 14-year-old Avion Lawson, whose DNA was found on a condom left at the rape scene. A letter Lawson picked up in front of co-defendant Jakaris Taylor’s cell says “real niggas don’t take pleas,” but the writer urges Lawson to do so.

    “But they no you wuz in the house so just stick up to it bro … they really do got yo DNA,” the letter says.

    The letter is signed “Bean Boys,” Soulja and L’il Beast.

    A few weeks after that July letter, a jail deputy confiscated a second one from Lawson’s styrofoam food tray after a meal, a letter to an unnamed person. The writer claims he never had sex with the woman but knows who did. “Now if they trying to give me life for something I ain’t do … they goin’ wit me.”

    There is, though, a transcript of a phone conversation Lawson had while using a phone at the police station. In it, he complains that another suspect, a 14-year-old not charged, is ratting him out in the interview room next door. He says the female detective knew a lot details about the crime that she otherwise would not have known.

    It’s only a matter of time before somebody rolls on their buddies, if they haven’t already.

    What I want to know though is when the other arrests are coming. Allegedly, police have the names of other suspects, but only four of the alleged 10 are in jail.

  • Update on Dunbar Village suspects

    Update on Dunbar Village suspects

    DNA evidence led to teens in Dunbar Village rape:

    One of the suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape has confessed to his involvement once the police confronted him with the DNA evidence that placed him at the crime scene.

    During a six-hour interview with police, Avion Lawson, 14, the first to be charged in the case, confessed his involvement after being told his DNA was inside a condom found in the victim’s home. En route to the Juvenile Assessment Center, Lawson called some friends and did not sound remorseful, according to police. His lawyer, Bert Winkler, declined to comment on the evidence.

    Next up is one of his accomplices, Nathan Walker…

    The next to be charged was Nathan Walker, a 16-year-old who dropped out of the seventh grade after three attempts to pass. Walker’s latent fingerprint was found at the scene along with his DNA on the outside of the same condom linked to Lawson, according to the documents.

    Walker became so agitated at the police station that he had to be placed in handcuffs and leg restraints after he began throwing chairs at the walls and door, according to documents. His lawyer, Robert Gershman, has asked for a mental health evaluation of his client.

    How the hell did his DNA get on the outside of the same condom that Lawson used? Scratch that. I don’t really want to know.

    And now the best part, if there can be a best part in this twisted saga. 15-year-old Jakaris Taylor caught hell from his mother over his involvement.

    Jakaris Taylor, 15, was arrested July 12. A resident of Dunbar Village, he said his brother played with the 12-year-old victim, though Taylor denied ever being in the apartment. His mother, Jacqueline Minor, encouraged Taylor to give police a DNA sample. Lab results showed Taylor’s latent print inside the home, near Lawson’s and Walker’s.

    Minor was livid at her son, according to police.

    “Jacqueline yelled at Jakaris and told him she hoped he would never get one night of sleep and that he sees [the victims] every night when he tries to sleep,” a report stated.

    Such a refreshing change from the usual “not my kid” syndrome.

  • Status of Dunbar Village victim

    Status of Dunbar Village victim

    Boyfriend of Dunbar gang rape victim speaks out:

    The boyfriend of the mother who was one of the victims in the Dunbar Village gang rape speaks out and tells us the condition of the boy who was forced to have sex with his mother.

    The victim of a reported gang rape is working hard to deal with what happened, but her 12-year-old son is not faring quite as well, according to the woman’s boyfriend.

    “She goes to counseling with the little boy,” the 36-year-old said. “The boy, he’s still grieving. He cannot accept that he had sex with his mama. Nobody can talk to him. He feels like nobody loves him. I don’t think there’s no way that little boy is ever going to forget that.”

    He and the child’s mother have been trying to prepare the 12-year-old for the seventh grade, which starts today

    “He wanted his mama to go to school with him,” he said. “He’s afraid to be by himself. He’s going to go to school, but he’s just not happy.”

    I can’t even imagine the trauma this poor boy is going through. Whatever punishment the animals that did this to them receive will never be enough to make up for what they did to this family.

  • Possible motive in Dunbar Village rape

    Possible motive in Dunbar Village rape

    Untold details of horror unfold in new report on Dunbar attack:

    Here is allegedly the motive as to why a gang of thugs gang-raped a mother and forced her to have sex with her son…

    “She believed they were targeted because she called the police some time ago because three people threw garbage around her apartment complex,” according to the report.

    That, and she would not allow her son to associate with residents of another apartment in her building.

    Take this whatever way you want, but these thugs are nothing more than savages that should be removed from society anyway possible.