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New York
A fourteen-year-old boy was charged today in New York with robbery and raping a woman in the presence of her four-year-old daughter, according to the Suffolk (Eastern New York) prosecutor’s office.
Suffolk County Prosecutor on Long Island, Ray Tierney, released the charges against the teenager, whose name was not released because he was a minor, for the events that occurred on April 19.
“Apart from the extreme violence of the criminal activity, what makes this case so shocking is the defendant’s age to commit such vicious and violent crimes,” Tierney said in a statement.
He explained that on that day the 23-year-old woman heard noises in the house and believed it was her husband who had returned from work. But shortly after the minor and another man, who is still wanted by the authorities, entered the room where the woman was with the girl.
The 14-year-old minor took the woman’s cell phone and forced her to unlock it and while the man was looking for objects to steal, the teenager allegedly raped her in front of her daughter.
He then dragged her to a corridor where he continued to rape her, after which he returned her to the room where his daughter was, whom he also tried to take into the corridor. .
It was then that the woman fought with the minor, who took her to another room where he showed her the knife he had, with which he caused a wound on the left side of her face, from the eyebrow to the root of the hair and stabbed her. on the chest.
The couple left after stealing various things from the house.
The woman was treated at a nearby hospital where stitches were taken and DNA evidence was collected, the prosecutor further explained.
Two days later the minor was arrested on charges unrelated to the case, but admitted to robbing the woman’s house, although he denied raping her.
DNA evidence linked him to rape and the case was brought before a grand jury, who charged him with juvenile delinquency for rape, criminal sexual act, assault, robbery and endangering the welfare of a child, which were filed today. officially read by a judge of the Suffolk County Juvenile Court.
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