How Could You? Hall of Shame-New York Foster Teen
This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.
From New York City, New York, a foster teen, 13, was arrested on September 5, 2013 for raping “an 8-year-old girl in a New York Public Library branch in Harlem, after the victim told her mother she was lured into a bathroom and attacked.”
“The suspect, whose name is being withheld by the Daily News because he is a minor, was charged with second-degree rape and unlawful imprisonment after being questioned at the 32nd Precinct stationhouse, sources said.
A source said the boy was caught on security cameras at Countee Cullen Library on W. 136th St. near Lenox Ave. leading the girl into a bathroom Wednesday afternoon.
The gruesome attack occurred at 4:15 p.m., shortly after the young victim arrived at the library with her 8-year-old brother and her 54-year-old female babysitter, sources said.
The girl apparently wandered away from her brother and babysitter as they were perusing books, sources said. She went up to the second-floor mezzanine where she encountered the suspect, whom she recognized from previous trips to the library, according to sources.
The boy immediately fled the library following the assault. The girl didn’t tell her mother of the rape until about 8 p.m. Wednesday.
The mother sensed something was amiss with her daughter and questioned the girl until she told her the sickening details of what happened, sources said.
The devastated parents immediately took the girl to the 32nd Precinct stationhouse to report the rape.”
Boy, 13, charged in rape of 8-year-old girl at New York Public Library
[New York Daily News 9/5/13 by Rocco Parascandola , Barry Paddock , Corinne Lestch and Bill Hutchinson]
“A troubled 13-year-old foster child arrested for raping an 8-year-old girl in the bathroom of a Harlem library pleaded guilty Friday.
The boy, who told police the victim was the sister of a friend, copped to first-degree sexual abuse for the disturbing Sept. 4 attack at Countee Cullen Library on W. 136th St. near Lenox Ave. He is and is due back in court Sept. 30 for a hearing on his sentence.
The boy, who had absconded from foster care at the time of the attack, also lost his bid Friday to get moved to a non-secure facility. He claimed a group of boys are beating him up at his juvenile lock-up facility.
“I got jumped by three kids in school,” he said, telling the judge he has “no idea why” they went after him.
He said the same group of boys have been on his case for weeks.
“Ever since I first went there, with the same kids who had told me they was going to do it,” he said. “I didn’t take it seriously until they really did.”
Manhattan Family Court Judge Mary Bednar said she could request extra security but could not order a transfer.
“If you’re asking for some enhanced safety provisions I can do that,” she said.”
Troubled foster care boy, 13, pleads guilty to raping girl in library
[New York Daily News 9/20/13 by Shayna Jacobs]
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