If I had seen this while carrying my gun ...

[RagingInMiami]

ST. PETERSBURG -- An 8-year-old girl was raped on the side of a residential street in full daylight less than half a block from her apartment, police said.

Someone who witnessed the crime Wednesday afternoon chased away the perpetrator, who remained on the loose Thursday, police spokesman Bill Proffit said. The girl was treated at a hospital and released.

The girl was leaving a park at about 12:55 p.m. with her 7-year-old brother when a man grabbed her from behind, pulled her to the ground and raped her, police said. Their mother had left them alone for a few minutes to return home and turn off the kitchen stove.

A man playing basketball nearby said he heard the screams and ran to the scene. A motorist who witnessed it began honking her horn and dialed 911. The perpetrator got up and ran away.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-720stpeterape,0,824805.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

[Swamp Rat]

1. America has the "rape plague"

Unless I am wrong, 1 out of 4 females are raped my men in the USA.

How come fundie x-tians and the ruling GOP don't do anything to stop it???

[KyndCulture]

3. I just looked up the stats 2 days ago, Swampy

1 in 6 American women were the victim of an attempted sex act or completed sex act against their will by the time they are 18. (according to the USDOJ)


That's not something to be very proud of.

[wicket]

8. I'm one of them

Unfortunately there are a lot of us here at DU :(

Hope they catch this sick fuck :grr:

[KyndCulture]

16. Me too.

1 in 6 means there's a whole lot of us.

[wicket]

37. It's horrible

Hugs for you my sister :hug:

[Swamp Rat]

11. You are right, I just looked it up too:

Key Facts:

Every two and a half minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted.
One in six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape, and 10% of sexual assault victims are men.
In 2003-2004, there were an average annual 204,370 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.
About 44% of rape victims are under age 18, and 80% are under age 30.
Since 1993, rape/sexual assault has fallen by over 64%.

2004 Statistics:

In 2004, there were 209,880 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assaults according to the 2004 National Crime Victimization Survey.

Of the average annual 204,370 victims in 2003-2004, about 65,510 were victims of completed rape, 43,440 were victims of attempted rape, and 95,420 were victims of sexual assault.

Because of the methodology of the National Crime Victimization Survey, these figures do not include victims 12 or younger. While there are no reliable annual surveys of sexual assaults on children, (pdf) the Justice Department has estimated that one of six victims are under age 12.

Contrary to the belief that rapists are hiding in the bushes or in the shadows of the parking garage, almost two-thirds of all rapes were committed by someone who is known to the victim. 67% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger – 47% of perpetrators were a friend or acquaintance of the victim, 17% were an intimate and 3% were another relative.

http://www.rainn.org/statistics/index.html

[Ian David]

24. And the Fundies want to ban the cervical cancer vaccine...

even though one out of six of their daughters will be raped?

[KyndCulture]

27. yeah.

teach abstinence... that's how we all get STD's, consensual sex.


whatever.

[flamin lib]

36. Absinance as a birth control device has an 85% failure rate. nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

33. That's not necessarily the case.

Both "Rape victims" and "People who want to ban cervical cancer vaccine" are distributed very unevenly in terms of what demographics they belong to, whether they live in cities or the country, what state they are in and so forth. That means that it's not unlikely that considerably more or considerably less that 1 in 6 of the daughters of people who want to ban cervical cancer vaccine will be raped; my money would be on it being non-trivially less than the national average although that's just an educated guess rather than the result of research.

[unpossibles]

7. why aren't they doing anything to stop it?

they're the ones doing it!

[Swamp Rat]

13. That's how I figure it too.

[AngryAmish]

38. Rape is greatly reduced since the 70s

something like 85% less. It is a great social good that has been done. Mostly due to demographics (less baby boomers in the raping demographic).

[Syncronaut Seven]

40. Because fundie x-tians and the ruling GOP have an interest in promoting it

Rape is also an effective tool of war.

We are at war, The enemy is ignorance, pride greed and ego. The most powerful nation on earth is succumbing from within.

Fortunately GOP fundies LIKE carrion. The stench of death seems a fundy aphrodisiac.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I hope they find this person,

prosecute him, find him guilty, and sentence him to life in prison without possibility of parole. There is evidence that pedophiles are incurable, and so they should be segregated from society.

[shadowknows69]

4. and almost inevitably they are sentenced

to a mere fraction of a life sentence. Justice would have best been served if Raging in Miami HAD happened upon this while carrying his gun.

[KyndCulture]

28. amen to that. nt

[MamaBear]

29. Agreed.

He must have been way out on a limb to act so impulsively; he was way past the point where he had any control at all. And there seems to be no help for these guys.

It's sad all around. But they do need to be segregated from the general population, at least until somebody can figure out how to work with them.

[High Plains]

31. Please stop repeating that canard.

If you do the research, I think you will find recidivism rates similar to other offenders.

[KyndCulture]

32. Got link?

I have done the research.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

35. Hmm.

I'd always believed that the rate of recidivism was particularly high for paedophilia, and for sexual offences in general, but http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#recidivism suggests otherwise, as does http://www.rikosseuraamus.fi/25234.htm


I guess you learn something new every day.

[wtmusic]

5. words fail nt

[ThomWV]

6. Yep - I'd Have Put One In His Ass Too

And I never go anywhere (leagal) without my pistol.

By the way, I would not have killed him - he did not kill her - but I sure as hell would have shot him.

[anarch]

9. I would have killed him

if I had been there to do so. I'm pretty sure that's justifiable under the law, too. I know it's not a real popular point of view around here, but some people really have no business being alive.

[KyndCulture]

18. There are many studies...

that show pedophilia cannot be cured.


I don't care if it's popular or not. I would have killed him too.

[bleedingheart]

20. I would have killed him too

[Arkansas Granny]

34. I don't know that I would have, or could have, killed him. However,

with a good rush of adrenaline I'm sure I could have beat him to a bloody pulp with my bare hands. A raging granny is not a person you want to mess with.

[RagingInMiami]

10. I would have chased him down

And shot him in the groin, ensuring that he never rapes again.

[KyndCulture]

19. See that's the thing.

Even chemical castration doesn't stop pedophilia... they just move on to foreign object rape.

[elehhhhna]

21. Blast him in the noggin so's he don't think about it no more,

[jdlh8894]

12. Go for lower torso. n/t

[Tsiyu]

14. There is a time for deadly force

This would be one of those times for me.

he may not have killed the girl's body, unless he infected her with AIDS, but, as a rape victim, I can promise you, he killed her little soul.

She will never be the same again.

And imagine what that beast has done in secret?

:cry:

[KyndCulture]

17. No rapist is ever caught...

the first time.

He's ruined many lives before that sweet baby.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

41. This is why

I believe if a rape victim found their rapist and killed him, I would call it justifiable homicide and, if I were on the jury, would vote to find the rape victim innocent.

[Fleshdancer]

15. I can't imagine witnessing something so horrible

My heart goes out to that family. The girl for being tortured, her younger brother for feeling so helpless and their mother who will be blaming herself for this for the rest of her life. :cry:

This monster needs to be caught fast. He obviously doesn't care if people see him which, IMO, makes him that much more dangerous.

[JAYJDF]

22. To me there is no greater crime.

Even killing someone is unbelievealbe, but, the lasting affect I cannot imagine. Being a father of 2 daughters, that fear was and still is always on my mind. Sorry, but killing them isn't the answer. I would let things quiet down and catch the SOB and cut everything off I could grab! This just sickens me. And knowing that this goes unattended in the military is worse!

[Zookeeper]

23. And, apparently, the guy is still out there....

He stripped off his shirt as he ran away. He knew what he was doing, so you have to wonder how many rapes he's previously committed and how long it will take for him to commit another one.

My heart is broken for that little girl, her brother who must have witnessed it and her family.:cry:

I hope he goes to prison and his fellow inmates are tipped off to the nature of his crime.

[KyndCulture]

26. at least they have his DNA

from the sweat on his shirt.

That little baby's life is forever changed.

[Kajsa]

25. It's horrible, that poor girl

and her family are traumatized for life, now.

I'm not a violent person, by I keep hearing in my
head;

"Where's Lorraine Bobbitt when you need her?"

This brings out the most vengeful feelings I have.

[The Deacon]

30. I'm a Pacifist, So I Don't Believe in Killing

But I'm also a husband, brother, son & father. So I might well shoot. But I'd feel really bad about it. At least for a little while.

[stop the bleeding]

39. I hope that I do not have daughters when my lady and I decide to

be fruitful and multiply, if I do this type of thing will be in the front of my mind every waking second.

Hell I worry all of the time right now for the same thing happening to my lady.

I don't know what kind of person I would become if something like this happened to a loved one.

[Fleshdancer]

42. I have a daughter....

and that fear is not fun to live with. Although the fear would be there if I had a son since boys are victims too unfortunately. I've concluded that being "Mom" is synonymous with "worry".

There was only one time so far that my "Mommy senses" told me something was not right. We were living in an apartment complex and one night I took my daughter for a swim. This one guy that lived in the complex came to the pool with his dog and was friendly. He asked what Abby's name was, how old she was then told her the dog was friendly, etc...small talk, nothing abnormal.

It wasn't until she and I were in the pool and I turn around and caught him staring at her in a way that made the small hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It was at that instant I realized that not once in our "small talk" did he ever introduce himself to me or ask me my name. He only asked about my four yr old daughter. My heart started pounding, I grabbed her, covered her in the towel, picked her up and left as fast as I could. I didn't even think, I just sort of acted on instinct I guess.

[soup]

43. He's been arrested.

Led by detective Joe Bross, left, suspect Henry Sengaroun walks out of the St. Petersburg Police station this evening.

Thursday, July 20, 2006
Police arrest rape suspect
An 18-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested for Wednesday’s brazen daytime rape of an 8-year-old girl near 40th Street and Dartmouth Avenue N., police said.

Henry Sengaroun was identified by his victim. Sengaroun lives a few blocks from Booker Creek Park in the North Kenwood neighborhood, according to records.

He has two previous arrests, one for the possession of tobacco last September, and one for trespassing in March.

More details to come.
http://www.sptimesphotos.com/blogs/overnight/2006/07/police-arrest-rape-suspect.html

earlier story with more info:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/20/Southpinellas/Girl__8__is_raped_in_.shtml


Lock him up and throw away the key.

[RagingInMiami]

44. Well I guess tobacco is officially a gateway drug

What a punk. I hope he is the right suspect.