Posted on 09/07/2006 2:48:07 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
MILWAUKEE (AP) - An 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by as many as 20 boys as a 16-year-old girl watched and told her what sex acts to perform, authorities say in the latest mob attack to rock Milwaukee and set off another round of civic soul-searching.
"It almost leaves me speechless. It is just senseless acts of violence. It is inhumane. It is embarrassing to the city of Milwaukee and its people. ... There should be outrage," Barbara Nuell-Moore, director of the neighborhood-improvement group Project Respect.
The 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy have been charged in juvenile court in the attack, which took place on Monday in a house on the city's north side. A 40-year-old man who also had sex with the child may also be charged, authorities said.
As for the others, "we're dealing with a lot of nicknames so we're trying to track down these people," said prosecutor Matthew Torbeson.
Numerous violent crimes have shocked the city this summer, starting with a Memorial Day weekend in which 28 people were shot. Homicides overall are down this year, but two other categories of violent crime are up from 2005 - assaults by 22 percent and robberies by 36 percent, Police Chief Nan Hegerty told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Hegerty's spokeswoman said the chief had no comment on the alleged gang rape.
According to court papers, the 11-year-old girl told police she was interested romantically in the 16-year-old girl, who looked and dressed like a boy.
The alleged victim and two friends went to the 16-year-old's house, where the child performed oral sex on three teenage boys, according to court papers. The 40-year-old uncle of the 16-year-old admitted he also had sex with the 11-year-old and told police that the 16-year-old was directing the child, the papers said.
The 11-year-old then went to the basement, where there were about 15 males and she told police she "began to choose who she wanted to perform oral sex on," court papers said.
The 16-year-old told police that the 11-year-old had told her she wanted to perform oral sex on the boys in the house. The 16-year-old denied encouraging her.
The 16-year-old girl and the 15-year-old boy were charged with being a party to sexual assault. Torbeson said he will probably seek to have them tried as adults.
Several mob attacks have taken place in Milwaukee's inner city in recent years. In 2002, more than a dozen people, mostly boys, chased a man through the streets and beat him to death with shovel handles, rakes and tree limbs.
A mentally ill man died after being beaten and robbed by a group in 2004. Four days after that attack, a 14-year-old boy was kicked, punched and hit on the head with a piece of lumber after he exchanged words with a girl. He was in a coma for two weeks. Also that summer, four brothers were beaten by a group armed with bats, bottles, sticks and socks stuffed with canned food.
Willie Brown, 26, who lives in the area of the alleged sexual assault, said Thursday that neighbors are outraged.
"If all those brains couldn't get together and figure out that was a baby?" he said, adding he has a 3-year-old daughter. "I don't have no respect or no love for people who do that." He added: "Whatever they get, they got it coming."
Animals, just Animals.
Sexualize a generation of children and this is what happens.
Beside the point, but what the heck do the two "mob attack" paragraphs near the end of the article have to do with the story?
The "community" hasn't closed ranks yet. Watch, this is going to somehow get turned into the fault of the Milwaukee Police Department.
2 Timothy 3:3-4
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, ABUSIVE, DISOBEDIENT TO THEIR PARENTS, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, BRUTAL, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God....
(This story made me sick. Pray for the 11-year-old.)
or the 28 Memorial Day shootings... It's about the deterioration of Milwaukee's inner city.
/sarc off
Second that, bigtime, m.
They were probably stressed out by Hurricane Katrina.
My first teaching assignment was "on the other side of the tracks" and I interfaced with people who grew up in the "ghetto." One of the teacher's aides was new. She was African American, and she told me that she recognized the custodian. Many years before he had raped her when she was 15 or so, walking home. Sadly, this type of thing happens a lot in the inner city. It's a common occurrence. It made me sick that she had to pretend the creep didn't do it.
"The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."
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Time for some vigilantism.
I'm sure you don't want this one.
No names, eh?
Gee - wonderful liberal (homosexual/predatory/lesbian) ideals of "freedom"
I was thinking just the same thing.......
Unless I'm reading this wrong, she was a willing participant. Maybe even initiated the whole sordid thing.
I am going to UWM this srping and because of the recent news I am NEVER going off campus and if I have to walk back to my dorm and it is dark out I will request a police escort.
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