"We all felt bad about what happened, but we hoped we didn't get caught," said Payton.
They felt bad about "what happened."
Posted on 08/26/2006 12:36:07 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Bay Shore High School's Class of 2006 homecoming king admitted in a Suffolk courtroom Friday to taking part in what prosecutors called one of the more horrifying crimes in recent history -- the beating, rape and robbery at gunpoint of a young couple on their first date.
Recalling talking with his co-defendants after driving away from the brutal crime, Douglas Payton, 18, said, "We started to laugh about it."
Payton pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and first-degree robbery for the Dec. 3 attack in Bay Shore. Newsday is not naming the couple because they were victims of sex crimes.
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One thinhg I frequently don't see in these stories is a description of how the perps got nabbed. DNA? Fingerprints? A stoolie?
Without a doubt, society's fault. Ask Al Sharpton.
If nothing else that would give Ed Asner and Mike Farrell something to do.
Death penalty is deserved.
Ought to put the pieces of excrement in the same cell with those brothers on death row in KS for a similar sex crime. Only that ended up with 5 people dead.
This couple will probably never recover from a trauma like this. 15 years doesn't do THEM justice.
No pictures of the victims obviously. Gee, I wonder if this was a "hate crime." Makes me want to vomit....
What do you mean when released? Two of them are not in jail. Out on bail.
"We all felt bad about what happened, but we hoped we didn't get caught," said Payton.
They felt bad about "what happened."
You are unfortunately correct.
He said he and his co-defendants donned masks, and he grabbed duct tape he had in his car after having used it to help set up "Awareness Week" at school.
Who, besides a criminal with premeditated intent, drives around with masks in their car?
Payton used the tape to cover up his license plate, "because I knew something bad was going to happen, and I didn't want to get into trouble."
"We all felt bad about what happened, but we hoped we didn't get caught," said Payton.
Translation: We're gutless scumbags that are only sorry now that we've been caught.
Just a bunch of misunderstood yutes expressing their frustration on the way society holds them back from reaching their full potential in life. It's all our fault.
So these were not poor homeless bums out on the street. They were supposedly productive high school students. The defense of "society made them do it" and "lack of programs/opportunities" for young people certainly doesn't apply. I'd like to know how the "community" will spin this one.
Any idea how old the victims are? At any age this must be a horrific trauma though. I liked the part where it said the victim's brother glared at the family of the scumbag. I would want to put some fear into them so they know when their precious son gets out of jail (which probably will be way too early) I would be there waiting to administer real justice.
Baseball bats need to be the tools of punishment. How the bats are employed is up to debate,
They felt bad about getting caught.
The woman is 23, the story didn't give the man's age.
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