Three Teenage Boys From Group Home Arrested For Rape

“Three teenage boys sneaked out of their group home, encountered a 33-year-old woman in an Internet cafe and then raped her and stole her wallet and keys, police said.

The three 16-year-olds were arrested Tuesday in the attack a day earlier in Chinatown. The woman was at the cafe at about 5 a.m. Monday when the teens arrived. She was attacked at a nearby park. After the rape, she made her way to a deli where the workers saw she was in need of medical attention so they called 911, police said. She was hospitalized in stable condition.

Police said after the boys raped the woman, they stole her ID, keys and credit cards and tried unsuccessfully to use them. They also went to her home and unlocked the door but saw someone inside and fled, police said.

Special Victims Unit detectives linked surveillance footage of the teens at the cafe and also at her apartment.

They were awaiting arraignment on charges of rape, attempted rape and robbery. It wasn’t clear if they had lawyers.”

3 teens in group home arrested on rape charges[The Daily Star 6/2/15 by Associated Press]

“A worker at a now-closed city group home for troubled youth has been arrested on charges he doctored a logbook to falsely show he was checking regularly on three teenage residents the night they slipped out and raped a woman, authorities announced Thursday.

Denzel Thompson, 24, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and was released following his arrest on charges of falsifying official documents, officials said. Thompson’s lawyer said there was no criminal intent and that he hoped the case wouldn’t turn into a “political football.”

Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters, whose officers arrested Thompson with investigators from the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, said in a statement that the arrest shows the “tragic results” of not following protocol.

Thompson made checks every half hour on the teens as required from 11 p.m. May 31 until 1:30 a.m. at the six-bed Boys Town facility in a Brooklyn brownstone, officials said. But for the next five hours, he wrote in the logbook: “All youths down in bed” every half hour, but never made the checks and was actually on a floor below, they said.

The Associated Press first reported the arrest.

Meanwhile, a window alarm on the boys’ floor had been disabled and the teens escaped and made their way to Manhattan, where they encountered a 33-year-old woman at an Internet cafe in Chinatown at around 3 a.m., police said. Surveillance video shows the boys pawing at the woman, prosecutors said. They pulled her outside, then to a nearby building where they raped her in a stairwell, prosecutors said. They took her keys, cellphone and credit cards and left her there, prosecutors said.”

 

Worker at NYC group home for troubled youth is arrested[Washington Times 6/11/15 by JAKE PEARSON and COLLEEN LONG of Associated Press]

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