Cop: Mom, Son Hysterical, Bloody After Gang Rape

A mother and her young son were hysterical, battered and bloodied at a hospital just hours after she says she was gang-raped and beaten by several masked, gun-toting teenagers, a police officer testified Monday.

West Palm Beach Police Officer Dustin Moore was among the first to arrive at the hospital early on June 19, 2007.

Moore testified he found the woman “in a fetal position laying on the bed. . . . and her son was in a fetal position laying on a chair next to her.”

“They were crying hysterically, and very emotional, upset,” Moore told jurors.

Tommy Lee Poindexter, 20, and Nathan Walker, 18, are being tried on 14 counts each, including sexual battery, burglary, kidnapping, grand theft and promoting sexual performance of a child.

During opening statements, Poindexter’s attorney admitted her client raped the woman, and DNA evidence will link him to that crime. However, she said, there is no evidence he participated in any of the other attacks.

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Walker’s attorney, Robert Gershman, also questioned whether his client participated in all 14 allegations.

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A third teen is set for trial in September, while a fourth has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the others. They are being tried as adults even though they were all teenagers at the time.

Police are still looking for other suspects who they say drifted in and out of the apartment and took part in the horrific attack.

Police say up to 10 teenagers raped the woman repeatedly and forced her and the boy to perform sex acts with each other, then doused them with chemicals to clean the crime scene in their public housing complex apartment just a few miles from downtown West Palm Beach.

Authorities say fingerprints and DNA evidence found on clothing and condoms inside the apartment identified the defendants. Each faces a maximum 11 life sentences plus 50 years if convicted.

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[Editor’s Note: AR stories posted when this first broke can be read here and here.]