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Gang forces 12-year old boy to rape his mom

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By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jul 6, 7:14 PM ET
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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 expected, but he would not say whether 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.

Walker made a first court appearance on Friday, after which his father, also named Nathan Walker, spoke briefly.

"My son has a good heart," the elder Walker said outside court. "I can't believe my son would do something like this. I don't teach my son violence so I don't understand."

Walker's attorney, Robert Gershman, said Friday he intended to enter a not guilty plea on behalf of his client once charges are formally filed. He would not comment further.

A telephone message left at the office of Lawson's public defender was not immediately returned.

(This version CORRECTS that police spokesman said more arrests were 'expected,' instead of 'pending.' )
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Makes me wonder what kind of neighborhoods this take place. If there is ever a justification for death penalty, this would be it.

"My son has a good heart," the elder Walker said outside court. "I can't believe my son would do something like this. I don't teach my son violence so I don't understand."

Seems a lot of things these parents don't understand. Including raising rapist incest sons that should have been aborted.

Lawson, Walker, and whoever their 10 masked thugs should get death penalty, as well as their parents for creating these monsters. Makes me sick.
 
Originally posted by: babylon5
Makes me wonder what kind of neighborhoods this take place. If there is ever a justification for death penalty, this would be it.

"My son has a good heart," the elder Walker said outside court. "I can't believe my son would do something like this. I don't teach my son violence so I don't understand."

Seems a lot of things these parents don't understand. Including raising rapist incest sons that should have been aborted.

Lawson, Walker, and whoever their 10 masked thugs should get death penalty, as well as their parents for creating these monsters. Makes me sick.
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Agreed...what is it about some parents that they are so blind to what's going on with their kids? Every time something like this happens, the parents are always saying that their kid was good and wouldn't do anything bad, blah, blah, blah.
 
I don't understand how parents could be so way out of syn with their kids this much either. It makes you angry, sick, and sad about the world.
 
Originally posted by: babylon5
I don't understand how parents could be so way out of syn with their kids this much either. It makes you angry, sick, and sad about the world.
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Its parental apathy. Neighborhoods like that look to the Government to provide solutions for problems in life and and for government schools to educate their kids. This kind of thinking leads into a sense of entitlement. It's not blatant but when its crunch time people tend to slip the normal moral tendencies and justify taking things by force. After all it wasn't provided to them so when the opportunity presents itself why not take advantage. Its really easy when personal responsibility is not something that has been reinforced growing up.

Kids pick up this attitude by example and take it a step further when they get together. This kind of crap is what happens when that punk mob mentality comes out.

 
The mentality to go crazy in power like this - and rape is about power - is similar in this case of the gang doing something as an extreme expression of power; or when a mob somewhere overturns and burns cars and kills people in its own frenzy of power; or when a nation goes to war in a frenzy of its own power to do so, to 'shock and awe' another group.

They're not the same by any means - but there's an element that is. You can't hear of the horrors committed to Viet Nam, for example, without seeing the same blindness to the violence where not one woman was raped, but countless women, and millions killed, for no especially good reason. But when a country does it, it's invisible.

"When one man is killed, it's a tragedy. When a million are killed, it's a statistic".
 
And people wonder why I love gangbangers so much

I wish I didn't hate all of them.. but they do make me really angry.. all of them..
 
Sick twist on a classic crime. Same punishment though.

Though death for proven rapists is ok in my book.

The incest angle bothers me. That just ... bothers me.
 
I'd go with the death penalty for those who were responsible for this. Some behavior is just not acceptable in society.
 
I think these kids should get 5 years.

5 years of public torture then a bidding war among citizens on who gets to finally put a bullet in their skulls.
 
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