John says some of the officers would even make jokes, calling him a “fag,” a “girl,” and a “bust-down.” Two months after his arrival, John finally reached a breaking point.Īccording to TMP, “ 17 year-olds are automatically tried as adults in 10 states, while 16 year-olds automatically face adult charges in North Carolina and New York.” All states typically give prosecutors and judges wide discretion in deciding whether to charge youth under 18 as adults. The rapists would put a towel over the cell door’s window, which was not allowed but must have been noticed by officers making their rounds. From their station at the end of the hall, the officers would see men going in and out of his cell and they would not intervene. He assumed the staff knew what was happening.
John would later be asked why he did not tell correctional staff, since in theory they could have taken steps to protect him. His story is familiar like Young, he went through a long line of childrens homes, where he experienced differing degrees of abuse, before ending up at Medomsley. John, not his real name and now 20, recounts the abuse to The Marshall Project in an intimate and devastating long-read on the origins, status and limitations of the 12-year-old Prison Rape Elimination Act. Attacks by older, much larger prisoners–the first, a cell mate–started soon after arrival. He’d been convicted of participating in a couple of home invasions and was looking at a minimum of three years inside.
Danny's priors consist of various charges of drug possession, battery, burglary, and grand larceny.John Doe 1 was 17-years-old when he, like thousands of other adolescents in the U.S., was placed in an adult prison in Michigan. Prior to that, Richard had been accused in a 1996 home invasion robbery.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was released from prison in 2008. Richard Cruz had been arrested in a homicide by the in 2000. The Ledger reports, the two brothers have extensive criminal histories. The penalties against the two men may be enhanced with the consideration of their past indiscretions. The video of the rape has two versions circulating on. The Cruz brothers will face felony charges – one count of armed robbery, one count of armed burglary of an occupied dwelling, one count of a felon in possession of a weapon, and one count of sexual battery, according to WTSP News. The 23-year-old was gang-raped by four men and the perpetrators filmed their savage attack, which has since circulated online, BBC reported. After the attack, they abandoned a stolen F-150 truck nearby, leaving the machete and a comforter taken from the home inside. Leading up to the break-in and assault, the siblings had been out and about in search of scrap metal to sell. The brothers, 33-year-old Richard Delgado Cruz and 29-year-old Danny Delgado Cruz, were arrested and charged in the home invasion and sexual battery. The suspects were described as Spanish speaking males in their mid-20s to mid-30s, one 5'8" and the other is 6'1", wearing dark pants and gray hoodies.īoth men were eventually taken into custody by deputies several hours apart from one another on Thursday.
Before leaving the home, the men ransacked the master bedroom and took a five-gallon container full of change, $500 in cash, and jewelry. In an attempt to expunge physical evidence of the rape, the woman was saturated in bleach. Thereafter, the burglars bound the young man and sadistically took turns threatening and sexually assaulting his mother. Two masked men, armed with guns and a machete, approached a 20-year-old resident just outside of the home.īased on the family's account, the intruders charged in and ordered the young man to tie up his father with extension cords. Poinciana, FL – Just before 11 pm Monday night, a home within the vicinity of Puffer Court and Halibut Road was invaded by two criminal suspects.