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Gang beats, rapes woman in Qns. park
New York Daily News ^ | 12/21/02 | KERRY BURKE, MICHELE McPHEE, RICHARD WEIR, and WARREN WOODBERRY JR. It was written by TRACY CONNOR

Posted on 12/21/2002 1:12:47 AM PST by kattracks

On a desolate fringe of a Queens park, a gang of homeless men set upon a woman and dragged her into their squalid encampment, raping her for two hours while cops mounted a frantic search.

The 42-year-old victim finally was rescued when a police dog picked up her scent, tracked her to the hobo jungle and sank his teeth into one of the men who brutalized her, authorities said.

"It is a horrendous crime," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said as the five assailants were booked on kidnapping, robbery, rape and sodomy charges.

The attack occurred at 10 p.m. Thursday at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, on a deserted pedestrian path linking Shea Stadium and the National Tennis Center.

Sitting on a bench, the woman and a male friend were jumped by a band of what police called homeless Mexican immigrants who beat and robbed them.

The mob then grabbed the woman and pulled her down a flight of stairs leading to a Long Island Rail Road platform, across the tracks and deep into the woods.

Amid the thick brush, the men had put up several shacks patched together from wood, cardboard and plastic - described by one investigator as human "bird's nests."

The huts were filled with old mattresses and piles of garbage. They were so filthy that one cop said he planned to throw out his shoes after stepping inside.

In one of the ramshackle shelters - impossible to see from even a short distance - the men took turns beating and raping the woman.

Her friend had raced off, found a passerby with a cell phone and called police, who quickly swarmed the park.

For two hours, cops searched the sprawling grounds with dogs for a trace of the woman and her captors.

At one point, electricity on the LIRR tracks was shut off so cops could cross over into the thick brush on the other side.

'Dog went nuts'

As police closed in, two of the suspects, Victor Cruz, 22, and Jose Hernandez, 18, ran out of the woods and were captured.

A 10-year-old German shepherd named Sean and his handler, Officer Kim Flechaus, were the first to reach the shack where the victim was held.

"It was awful. We couldn't find her, and then the dog went nuts," one investigator said.

The bloodied woman, naked from the waist down, apparently heard the cops and bolted. She told them one of her attackers was still inside.

The dog was sent in, and he ripped into suspect Louis Carmona, 20, authorities said. After a brief standoff, the dog then pulled Carlos Rodriguez, 22, and Jesus Torres, 28, from a second shanty nearby.

"God bless Sean. He did a hell of a job," a police official said.

Three of the five suspects were treated at the hospital for dog bites.

When they were led out of the 110th Precinct stationhouse last night, they wore only hospital gowns because their clothes were seized for evidence. Shivering, they tried to cover their faces as they walked past.

The viciousness of the assault recalled the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park, which ended with the convictions of five teens being tossed out Thursday. Convicted killer Matias Reyes confessed to the crime.

Another group attack

"This is eerily similar to the whole Central Park thing," an NYPD source said. "Everyone is crossing the T's and dotting the I's to make sure history does not repeat itself."

The gang rape also bore similarities to a group attack on a Brooklyn woman this month in Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights. Those assailants are still at large.

In Flushing, Queens, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officer told the Daily News that homeless encampments near the unused LIRR tracks are a persistent problem.

Cops regularly sweep through and knock them down, only to see them rebuilt elsewhere.

Rapes in the 110th Precinct are down 23% this year from last year - and Kelly said it wasn't clear whether more security was needed.

"We're always evaluating that issue," he said.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
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To: putupon
More to the point was the victim white? I smell another Central Park "Wilding Case" coming. The white victim's trash and the minority rapists were you know set up by the Great White Patriarchy.
21 posted on 12/21/2002 2:59:44 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: Travis McGee
Rudi, somehow was able to keep these animals at bay. If a democracy can not keep up proactive law and order then its over.
22 posted on 12/21/2002 3:09:14 AM PST by Destro
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To: kattracks

It's the year 2002 and Mexican "Banditos" wander freely in New York Parks.

Sounds like freakin' bad science fiction. Even worse that it is not.

23 posted on 12/21/2002 3:39:26 AM PST by Caipirabob
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To: Yakboy
We have 11 million illegal aliens in this country and have yet to deport one of them back home. And the U.S government just released Arabs back in California. I doubt the illegal Mexicans will ever be deported if caught thanks to bipartisan PC and softness towards illegal immigration.
24 posted on 12/21/2002 3:48:00 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: judgeandjury
Three of the five suspects were treated at the hospital for dog bites.

Good doggie!

Bad doctors!

26 posted on 12/21/2002 3:55:33 AM PST by putupon
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To: Yakboy
It's the year 2002 and Mexican "Banditos" wander freely in New York Parks.

Isn't just great that Hillary and Chuckie work hard every day to keep NY residents disarmed? If her boyfriend had been packing, all you would have are a bunch of young punks who needed to change their undies.
28 posted on 12/21/2002 3:58:17 AM PST by doosee
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To: kattracks
"This is eerily similar to the whole Central Park thing,"

Exactly! They see where the 5 rapist animals who did that are going to get paid millions by the taxpayers of NY,and they want in on the pot of gold. Being illegal aliens from Mexico,Bubb-2 will probably even want to build them new homes and invite all their relatives to come stay.

29 posted on 12/21/2002 3:59:59 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: doosee
Yeah if she had been allowed to pack a piece the gang would have fled the scene faster than you could say "Speedy Gonzales!" We really do have to thank Hill and Chuckie for leaving another disarmed victim at the mercy of savages.
30 posted on 12/21/2002 4:01:28 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: Travis McGee
We are sending vast armies and billions in weaponry thousands of miles, but our "leaders" are blind to the invasion going on right on the home front.

Well,there ain't no Jorge "The Iraqui" Bush waiting in the wings to be elected in the near future,and very few Iraqui illegal aliens here to vote for him. It's all about what is best for the Bush family.

31 posted on 12/21/2002 4:03:27 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: laconic
A prompt and televised mass hanging would be a good response to this.

I agree,along with mandatory viewing for everyone in junior high school and higher.

32 posted on 12/21/2002 4:05:51 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: kattracks
>>what police called homeless Mexican immigrants<<

But, surely their visas have expired?

33 posted on 12/21/2002 4:15:42 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble
The huts were filled with old mattresses and piles of garbage. They were so filthy that one cop said he planned to throw out his shoes after stepping inside.

Herein lies the problem. When Rudy was mayor, this crap wouldn't have happened.

Bloomberg ain't fit to pour water from a boot... he would rather prosecute smokers!

Koch, Dinckins and Bloomberg couldn't hold Rudy's jock-strap. The bums are back on the streets again!

34 posted on 12/21/2002 4:33:30 AM PST by johnny7
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To: kattracks

CRIME SCENE:
Officer Kim Flechaus and her dog, Sean, caught three of five men suspectd of asaulting a woman on a train-station walkway, and repairing walkwa and raping her near Shea Stadium (top).
- Photo by:
NYP D. Rentas

35 posted on 12/21/2002 4:33:36 AM PST by csvset
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To: kattracks
The NY Daily news had a pic of one the perps being hearded into a van. The pic was so small (imho) it wasn't worth posting. The NYPD officer and her canine partner certainly did a fine job.
36 posted on 12/21/2002 4:36:38 AM PST by csvset
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To: Travis McGee
QUESTION:"Does this nation have the will to resist the invasion?"

ANSWER: No.

37 posted on 12/21/2002 4:41:52 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Semper Paratus
#3....My thoughts exactly! Sounds like Sean did an outstanding job.
38 posted on 12/21/2002 4:45:45 AM PST by kassie
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To: Travis McGee
Actually a good atart would be to get rid of Robert Morganthau.
39 posted on 12/21/2002 4:48:29 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine
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To: kattracks
Mexican immigrants

Immigrants is too kind a word for these freakin' vandals.

They ought to be treated like Huns and killed on sight.

Ok..I haven't had coffee yet.

40 posted on 12/21/2002 4:52:03 AM PST by JimVT
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