If they won't say it, I will WHY????

Yesterday, my mom and I got into a conversation about some of the sick, vile things some men do.  I will never understand it and it makes me want to castrate them all, without anything to dull the pain then force them to watch as I feed it to the dog.  There's a child pornography case going on around here and I think that's what's got me really thinking about these things.  I've known quite a few people who bear severe emotional trauma due to what others have done to them.  I was thinking about it as well, and I never hear these people complain about what they went through.  I've heard their stories and then it's never brought up again.  There's no why did this happen to me?  None of that.  And had it happened to me, I'd be a mess.  You'd be hearing me bitching, screaming and crying about it till the day I died.  Indigo (from Raven's Lament) is the person that amazes me the most.  She has had awful, terrible things happen to her throughout her life and while she's telling bits of her story, it's not said in a woe is me manner.  If nothing else, she feels guilty.  Guilty for those she had to leave behind to save herself.  She is by far one of the strongest women I have ever met in my life.  Now onto the news story that got this particular blog going.  This happened several years ago and was one of the incidents that was brought up between my mom and I.  I just can't stop thinking about that boy and his mother.  They are from a very poor neighborhood so I can't imagine that they're able to afford high quality counseling.  And you know this boy, at the very least is going to need some major counseling.  I wonder how they coped with it as the years went on.  Were they able to be around each other as if nothing happened?  As a mom, I would think if I were in that position, as hard as it would be, I would try to make it very clear that my son was not at fault and should do his best to see things that way.  That I still loved him no matter what and still viewed him the same as I did before.  But you don't know till you're in someone else's shoes, how you would truly react.  It's just awful.  And what's even worse to me, is that those boys that broke into their home, were obviously there for THAT reason.  It was like stealing something was an afterthought.  They were there to torture those people and I hope that the law saw it that way.  Here's the story from the AP.

 

 

updated 6:37 p.m. ET, Fri., July. 6, 2007

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Two teenagers were accused of gang-raping a woman and forcing her 12-year-old son to join in the attack, then beating him and pouring cleaning solution into his eyes.

Authorities allege Avion Lawson, 14, and Nathan Walker, 16, were among a group of about 10 masked suspects who forced their way into the woman’s apartment in a crime-ridden housing project the night of June 18.

The two were being held without bail Friday on suspicion of armed sexual battery by multiple perpetrators, sexual performance by a child, armed home invasion and aggravated battery. Both were arrested this week, but formal charges had not been filed.

“Any rape case is horrible, but this takes it to another level, something you can’t think of even in your worst dreams,” police spokesman Ted White said.

According to the police report, a man knocked on the woman’s door at about 9 p.m. and told her he had a flat tire. The mother and son, whom police have not identified, went outside and were ambushed by a group of gun-wielding suspects.

Gruesome violence
The victims told police they were forced back into their home and beaten and sexually assaulted.

According to authorities, the men raped, sodomized and beat the woman, then forced her son to participate in the assault at gunpoint, making him have sex with his mother in front of them.

The boy was then beaten and had numerous household cleaning liquids poured into his eyes, according to the police report.

The suspects also stole a few hundred dollars worth of cash and jewelry, White said.

White said more arrests were pending, but he would not say if authorities had identified additional suspects. The teens in custody were not cooperating, but Lawson confessed to taking part in the attack, White said. Walker has denied involvement, White said.

DNA evidence in a condom found in the victims’ home linked Lawson to the crime, police said. Investigators also say they found a palm print belonging to Walker at the scene.

Undergoing counseling
The victims did not suffer life-threatening injuries and have been released from the hospital, White said.

“They’re going through the county victim services for counseling,” he said.

Lawson lived in Dunbar Village, the hardscrabble project where the attack occurred. Walker was apparently visiting a friend there, White said.

Authorities believe the suspects all knew each other from the neighborhood, but they don’t think they knew the victims directly.

Prosecutors have 21 days from the time a suspect is arrested to formally file charges. Lawson was arrested Tuesday. Walker was arrested Thursday.

A call to Lawson’s public defender was not immediately returned. It was not known if Walker has an attorney.