Cops are hunting for three men who abducted a 13 year old girl who was walking home from school last Friday. The girl, who lives in Mount Vernon, was kept prisoner for 14 hours and gang-raped twice. The girl walked to the corner of Dyer and East 233rd, and hailed a car, which took her home. Her parents took her to Mount Vernon Hospital and reported the incident to police.
(New York)
Ali Williams, a 21 year old who abducted a 14 year old Brooklyn girl off the subway, raped heron a rooftop and held her captive until cops dialed her cell phone number, figured out where shewas, and rescued her. The victim’s ordeal began just after 6 am when she boarded the Q train inConey Island on her way to Fort Hamilton HS in Bay Ridge. Williams forced her off the train atOcean Parkway, claiming he had a gun. He took her to the roof of 3110 Brighton 7th St., where
Jose Saldana Mejia, a 19 year old Holtsville man, was sentenced yesterday to six months in the Suffolk County jail for taking a 13-year-old neighbor to Oklahoma in November. He picked up the girl in his car after she left for school one morning in November and drove her to Enid, Oklahoma where he had relatives. Mejia was arrested three days after she was reported missing. He was charged with first-degree kidnapping but under a deal with prosecutors pleaded guilty last month to unlawful imprisonment. A statutory rape charge is
Scott Tyree, a 38 year old man from Virginia, abducted a 13 year old Pittsburgh girl he met on the Internet and kept her chained to a bed. He was held without bail and faces up to 15 years in prison. This has prompted cops to warn parents to closely monitor the Internet activities of their children.
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Randolph Standifer, 21, kidnapped, raped and abandoned a 9 month old girl in a wooded area. He was charged with kidnapping, capital sexual battery and attempted first degree murder, and was being held without bail. He faces a possible life sentence if convicted. He told detectives he took the baby from her crib Saturday morning. He is a friend of the baby’s family and had spent the night at their home after a party. He confessed after failing a polygraph and also gave directions to where he had left the
A kidnapped Bronx girl was forced to live on almost nothing but water and cookied for nearly a year while being held in a boiler room and basement bedrom in her apartment building. The girl, who was 12 when she disappeared, said she was eventually shipped off to Puerto Rico. After one escape attempt failed, the kidnappers, Pedro Garcia who was the building’s superintendent, and his wife, Betzayda Melendez, told her, We’re sending you to Puerto Rico because you’re getting us into trouble. One the day of her departure at