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Dunbar rape suspect pleads guilty, gets 20 years
November 26th, 2007
Here at BlackPerspective.net we have been on the Dunbar village case for awhile; that being the assault this summer in West Palm Beach Florida consisting of a gang rape of a 35 year old mother and beating of her son that went unreported for hours as they screemed for help.
Over the weekend one of the perpetrators of the attacked agreed to a guilty plea
The Palm Beach Post reports that
WEST PALM BEACH — A 16-year-old charged in the Dunbar Village gang rape agreed to testify against his co-defendants in exchange for a 20-year prison sentence.
Jakaris Taylor could have faced a life sentence for each of the three charges of burglary with battery, and two counts of sexual battery with a gun while wearing a mask. He will also be branded a sexual predator, according to the agreement.
[well, ya think!??? I hope this factor wasn’t even up for negotiation]
The article goes on to say “His sentencing hearing will be a year from today.
Taylor and his co-defendants, Avion Lawson, Nathan Walker and Tommy Poindexter, were all charged as adults in the June 18 attack on a woman and her 12-year-old son.
According to the agreement, Taylor gave a taped statement on his involvement on Nov. 18.”
This article from the Sun-Sentinel states that “Taylor had denied any involvement in the June 18 attack on a 35-year-old mother and her 12-year-old son in the troubled public housing complex on West Palm Beach’s Division Avenue.”
There is a video report there.
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I am glad that each and every one of these kids are going to jail. The crimes they perpetrated against this mother and her son were obscene, vicious and devoid of any type of human justification for their actions.
What disturbs me is where in the world would these kids get the idea to do some of the things they did to this woman and her son? What in the world are we teaching our children? Each one of these boys will have a long time to consider how utterly destructive they became with someone else’s life. We have to pay attention to these kids. It horrified me when I read the accounts of this story. To tell the truth, I could not even imagine Black kids doing something as deviant as this. What responsibility are the parents taking? I think if one of these boys had been one of my sons, I probably would request that he be locked up for life. I would be so afraid that he might do this again. Do we really know what our children are doing when we are not around? We need to make sure that we know.
Thanks for commenting again Barbara.
We really have to start rebuilding a sense of community; and parents have to be parents.
Sadly, many of are men abrigate this responsibility and too many of the girls having these children are having them for the wrong reasons; ill-prepared to support them financially nor emotionally. And in between the two this is what we get - sociopaths.
It’s a sad day when we have to be afraid of the children around us. These boys need to be locked up for life - they have no place in our society. The problem is that these young punks are running around preying on women and children that do not have the protection of a man in the house or even within the neighborhood.
When I was growing up there were fathers in the house (mine had run off with a white woman), but there were other men (real men) in the neighborhood that would step up and put punks in their place had they dared act a fool with women or children. I think we are going to have to take our own neighborhoods back.
AJ, feminist told me that women don’t want to be protected by men when I did that “Blogging for Justice, Protecting Our Women” post.
“I think we are going to have to take our own neighborhoods back.”
Definitely. That’s something I’m discussing with my local organizing people right now. We’ve got to reclaim our communities and our culture from thugs and sociopaths.
Have you ever read “The Wilding of America”?
I did not read it in college but a friend left it at my place some time ago and I read it. The stuff keeps piling on, and I think Derber just may have something there.
A woman can’t have a child at an inappropriate time without a man and I do get so tired of men trying to blame women for what they didn’t do. If a fatherless child turns out badly, I’ll never understand why everyone is always pointing the finger at the parent who stayed in the picture and tried to do the right thing. Personally, I was raised by my Father and not my Mother so it’s not like men are incapable or it’s out of the realm of possibilities that they might be able to do the right thing in a situation like that.
On to this rape, 20 years is not nearly enough time. I hope he does every single day of it.
No, what is it about? I’m guessing it’s based around that central park case that was termed “wilding” by the media. A case which was latter proven to be a media concotion in it’s narrative and police railroading as the DNA ended up belonging to a white 31 year old serial rapist: http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2003/1/rapist-hancock.asp
Though this case shows that such a phenomena actually exist, the central park case shows a sector of America’s desire to use it as America’s boogie monster to blame another sector of society for all of America’s problems - it’s “those people”. If it wasn’t for “those people” America would be great again.
Well, this woman realizes that we need the protection of men as they are the stronger gender. Folk need to sit their azz down with some of that feminist BS. God created us the way we are for a reason. We were never intended to be on our own, neither men or women.
I’m not saying we cannot survive without a man, I’m saying that logically we all need one another to survive in this sick azz society and the sooner we figure it out the better off we’ll all be. We need to stop with this man vs. woman BS…it’s gotten old and while we’re fighting and debating the delicate points of gender roles, and pointing fingers, our men, woman and children are dying in the streets. We are imploding as a people.
Bell Hooks would rebuke you AJ.
Nah but really though, my post was about all of us protecting our community; which of course includes men stepping up and defending women under attack.
There was a time when we were colored folks, and Men looked out for the single Mothers.
The kids that did not have fathers seems as if after they said we didnt have to go in the back door anylonger we stoped caring for ourselves. I think we were so set on proving we were equal we forgot we was colored folks and that the bar may have been riased but it was rigged. We let the DCS,the AFDC tell our woman how bad the baby Daddys were , and those same Blacks mothers are telling too many young Black Boys “YOU no good just Like YO Daddy. The saying “IT takes a Village” does apply to our children, My own Son told me not long ago “Things ant like that no more” We work so hard some of us dont evn know our Children. I was riased in KY and went to school during the forced busing thing, but my parents had the sense to tell me there were just some things I could not or should not do. We have to stop letting these shcools and T.V shows tell our children how they suppose to act and behave ,we have to continue thier education about the real world and the traps that are set for them.
OG, very good statement. I might quote this for a post.
I’m in the UK and for the life of me, I have never heard of such an evil, heinous and barbaric crime. Where are these kids getting these ideas? Well as far as I’m concerned, the Internet is to blame. There are all kinds of easily accessible pornography, much of it extreme and young males are seeing this material in their most formative years. Is it any wonder they have a completely warped and unrealistic view of life.
If anything is to change for the better in this world, then all adult material must be taken off the net and as for all these violent games kids play these days, well surely their brains are becomming scrambled. I also feel Gangsta Rap and rap stars should be held accountable for some of the actions of young males. These rappers make it acceptable and cool to treat women like sexual commodities, who do not deserve or warrant any respect.
I recall the days when I was at school, some 25 years ago and never would anything like this have happened. We need to take a stand and seriously look into why our young people are growing up with violence in mind and look for solutions to deal with it. We should be teaching our children how to empathise from day one. Being able to walk in someone elses shoes, might make them think twice. The world needs to be and should be a nicer place to live, I don’t want to have to keep reading about these types of crimes throughout my lifetime.
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