Posted on 06/30/2006 8:33:11 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
GROESBECK, Texas — A Central Texas woman was recuperating at a Temple hospital after she reported being run off a rural road, kidnapped and then raped and beaten by her abductors, authorities said.
The 18-year-old woman was in stable condition Thursday following surgery. She had walked and crawled a half-mile to find help after her abductors left her for dead along a highway early Wednesday morning, authorities said.
"She spent more than two hours in hell," Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson said.
Wilson said Javier Guzman Martinez, 17, and Noel Darwin Hernandez, 22, both of Mexia, had been arrested for the crime and were charged Thursday with aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping.
The suspects began following the woman late Tuesday night as she left Mexia, about 40 miles east of Waco, where she was visiting friends, authorities said. The suspects did not know the woman.
The woman told investigators she was driving at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday on a state highway toward her home in a Limestone County town when a car rammed her sport utility vehicle and forced her off the road, Wilson said.
The woman told investigators that the men forced her into their car, and then drove around rural county roads while they sexually assaulted, stabbed and beat her, Wilson said.
The woman said the men left her about a mile south of Coolidge in a ditch, where she pretended to be dead until they left, Wilson said. She then found help at a nearby trailer.
Dena Lincoln said the woman, covered in blood, came to her trailer door at about 4:30 a.m.
"I will never, as long as I live, get that look that was on her face out of my mind," Lincoln said. "She kept saying, 'I'm going to die. I'm going to die.' I told her, 'No, honey, you are going to be all right. We are going to get you some help.'"
The woman was flown by helicopter to a Temple hospital with numerous cuts and stab wounds, including an injury that endangered one eye, Wilson said.
Wilson said investigators canvassed the area on Wednesday with the description of the suspects given by the women.
Officers found Martinez at his Mexia residence. Wilson said he confessed to the incident and told officers of Hernandez's involvement. U.S. Marshall's tracked Hernandez to a Waco bus station, where he was arrested Wednesday night.
Martinez was being held in the Limestone County Jail while Hernandez was to be transferred to Limestone County from McLennan County, officials said. Wilson said both men are apparently in the United States illegally and will be held without bond on immigration charges. Hernandez is from Honduras, and Martinez is from Mexico, Wilson said.
Illegal aliens have "Rights." Now one can see how those "Rights" are to be exercised. If the American government does not respect its own laws with regard to these people, then why should an alien respect American laws?
I like it. I think you've got a plan.
What no one realizes is what these monsters really did to this poor child!! The news reports all say she was "stabbed" or "cut" but never name a weapon. Wonder why? It was hideous what they did to her!! They are animals and need to be treated as such!! What they did to this little girl is far more vicious and violent than most of you could ever imagine or fathom!! It makes me physically ill.
Nope. Agree 100%.
I thought it was pronounced Day Re Queen! ;)
susie
Yeah, why did they change that law?
susie
Did we miss reading something in an article, or do you have knowledge that hasn't been printed?
susie
I couldn't even begin to tell you.
Forcible rape, when followed by murder or attempted murder, should be punished by pain.
My only point was that animals like these should never again see the light of day.
I am a conservative woman, a U.S. born citizen, blonde of hair and blue of eye. I was offended, no revolted, by the comments left here.
Childish, racist, uninformed, full of hate. YOU give conservatives a bad name. You are ignorant.
If you travel, you will see – though probably not meet – as I doubt people of this caliber would deign to speak with you, many people from Mexico who are highly educated, cultured and mannered.
Those from less economically fortunate backgrounds are, for the most part, connected to large loving families, respect
their parents, cultures and religion.
I love this country. With attitudes like yours, might I suggest a more comfortable fit for you might be one of the
Balkan States, or a Russian province, formerly part of the
Soviet Union.
Seems they go for shoot first, hang-em high, male on male
gang rape. You'd fit right in.
Here, in America, we have a LEGAL SYSTEM. WE ARE PROUD OF THIS. IT IS NOT FLAWLESS. IT IS THE BEST HUMANKIND HAS DEVISED.
It is based on the idea that people are innocent until proven guilty. And other stuff. Men and women have given
their lives defend this and other right we have here in
the UNITED STATES.
Including your right to spout this vile and ignorant c**p.
G-d Bless America.
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