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Subscribe to RSSA man has been arrested in connection with the rape on a public bus of a mentally disabled 18-year-old woman, sheriff's officials said on Friday.
The woman, who officials said has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old, told police she was raped about 5 p.m. Wednesday after she boarded Bus Line 217 at La Cienega and Jefferson boulevards in Culver City, Calif., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff's officials are expected to announce details about the arrest at a 2:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. ET) press conference.
The man who was seen through surveillance video getting off the bus, apparently boarded the bus the same time as the woman.
He followed her to the rear of the bus, then sat down, officials said. Then, without warning or provocation, the man stood and faced her while positioning himself between her legs when he sexually assaulted her, sheriff's officials said.
After 10 minutes, the man, pictured here on bus surveillance camera, stopped his alleged assault and got off the bus at Sepulveda Boulevard and Slauson Avenue, the route’s last stop.
"She did not scream or shout out. She was too afraid to do so," said Sgt. Dan Scott with LA County Sheriff's Department.
According to investigators, the bus driver was unaware of the alleged assault happening in the back of the bus and by the time the only other passenger on the bus attempted to alert the driver, the alleged attacker was already getting off the bus.
He was described as black, between 18 and 20-years-old. He's between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10, weighs between 150 and 160 pounds and has short, cropped hair.
At the time of the incident, he was wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt with narrow horizontal stripes, police said.
"We believe, based on the proximity of the crime being in such a public place and in broad daylight, that there's a high likelihood he may have done this before," Scott said.
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You have got to be kidding me. And there is a law waiting to be voted on to completly abolish the death penalty in California and this POS deserves to die but will probably be out in 5 years. Kill this MF'er.
I am all for the death penalty, but I would point out that it doesn't matter if California has it or not: The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for rape, including the rape of a child. It is off the table unless they overturn that ruling in the future.
Southerman76,We voted and are keeping the death penalty in California which doesn't matter to those in power.I can't believe that the driver didn't know that there was something going on.The rapist should serve a very long sentence so he's not back out in society anytime soon.
A few things come to mind. The other witness on the bus, just said "Um excuse me bus driver the girl in the back is being raped?" Not like, "HEY MAN WTF ARE YOU DOING." I wouldn't care what would happen to me I would have done whatever to stop what was happening. 2) You’re not supposed to "stand" while the bus is moving, you’re telling me the bus driver had no idea what was happening. Stupid people. And even to know it's not the woman's fault AT ALL, Why if she only has a mental capacity of a 10 year old was she riding the bus alone. The witness on the bus and the bus driver both failed as compassionate human beings. I would hold the bus driver to blame as well. This is something that could have been stopped and never happened. The person obviously knew no one would try to help. What has our society come to. Disgusting!!!
NHSmither,
You failed as compassionate human being.
What can you expect from most people. If it isn't happening to them then its not happening. I say the driver should be charged as a conspirator. Gutless, worthless, bystanders. This would of never happened if someone would of stepped up and done something, anything.
NHSmither you are absolutely right. I am a woman. I would have at least screamed and caused a commotion. How could you just sit there!!!???
Keep the death penalty and please send a strong mesage to all hard criminal, this will happen to you if you do a bad crime as this one.
Someone needs to slit the throat of the rapist and toss him in the trash where he belongs. The criminals in California are not scared of the states death penalty. When was the last time it was used. Somebody will take up for the savage and say he lived in poverty or had a hard childhood. That is no excuse. I had a hard childhood and I have never done anything worse than a speeding ticket or 2. When my dad was killed in Vietnam we lived in shelters for two years.
Mentally disabled people should not be allowed to take the bus by themselves.
Welcome to the people's republic of Californica. This guy looks like more than half the population of Los Angeles. Maybe the bus driver was in on the deal, too.
you're a fool
7 deleted, a comment about Petraeus, seemed to be in the wrong place from Jon Exner.
8, 10 deleted, a derail about the POTUS and a flame from f d hendricks - you're suspended for a week for violating #4 and 1 of the Code of Honor.Post on-topic.
tyler, I have seen 500 personal attacks on people who thought Obama should not be relected over the last two months. Called every name imaginable - the basic attack ignores their point, and they are called idiots, ignorant, stupid , @!$%#s, haters, dumbasses, pieces of@!$%#, etc. Why have I never once seen one of those comments deleted? Even the only ones "collapsed" are Conservative comments.
lee blake, you are so full of self-serving baloney its ridiculous. i've seen a huge number of attacks of those that lean left also, terms such as "libtard:, "handouter", and worse are extremely common. yet the self-righteous right simply ignores that and screams how "horribly persecuted" they are when they say such things or outright lies like "obama is a muslim communist bent on destroying America", and claim obvious falsehoods as "fact". (fake "facts" that they got in an e-mail earlier that day is what they really are)
Your comment was very idiotic and completely irrelevant. And that is just plain stupid t assume the bus driver was in on it.
This was in reply to mathuin. Dont want any misundrstandings.
Wow seriously this is disgusting they need to find this man and take him to the town square and string him up. No thats not being racist regardless of wether he' black, white, green god knows what color he is sick. Don't waste the money on the trial the lawyers just get this sicko outa the population but that would'nt be the american way lets try to rehabilitate him and then act surprised when he does this again. Screw that lets just get rid of him and make an example of him.
Well Jessy, there is work to do. Better call Al for media support.
I didn't think there was that much room on a bus!!
That's your response to a rape??? your as sick as the rapist!
You sick person, I hate to be a part of your soul. "Vengence is mine said the LORD".
Vengence is mine say the people. That how things get done . Death penalty oHHH yeaaaa. not lethal either.
nice slow and painful is what he deserves. little glass rod in the Pe*** and bring down DA HAMMER !!!!!!
No Mercy. Otherwise have a nice day ;-)
" . . . in connection of . . " ?
He must be a small man man?
What the hell does his size, which by the way they put in the article have to do with anything??? Anybody of any size can rape...you must be kin to the a$$hole K who doesn't think there is enough room on a bus to rape a woman...your both idiots!!!!
He was Black? Now why would I have bet the farm if I had a Farm that this guy was going to turn out to be Black. Now how did I know that? Must be some kind of mind reading or something.
@Tarzan: I was surprised he was black. I was expecting him to be white in all honesty. As statistics and studies show white males do commit more rapes than black males. Please dont do go there.
Well some studies show than white men commit more rapes than black males. However this is not a racial issue and race has nothing to do with this. He was wrong and he was an idiot. He should not have done it.
This is not about who rapes more women, white or black men, this is about injustice and the eyewitness should have alerted the bus driver to what was happening. But I did mean what I said when I said I was surprised it was a black male. I honestly expected him to be white. So Tarzan we are even on that note.
But the reason I expected him to be white is because white men are more known for this type of thing. I wonder why is that Tarzan? And how does this statement make you feel?
However I really dont agree with the above statements that I just typed but I wanted to see how me saying this bull @!$%# would actually make somebody who is a racist and wants to pretend like their race doesnt commit any crimes would feel. It is not right for me to be typing things like this I know. That is the whole point.
And it is not right for Tarzan to be making racist comments either. Both races commit crimes equally. I dont give a damn about the DOJ. Hell, white males do have a reputation for being serial rapists and serial murders. This is an actual fact. But my other comments were wrong. And I know that. But tarzan had pissed me off so I decided I would type a comment equally offensive.
The comment that white males are know for being serial rapists is not a fact, and I will take that statement back. I do retract some of my statements about white men being known more raping than black males. However every other comment I said I meant.
You are an idiot and your name is very offensive.
Hey @!$%# I took back my comments. They were in response to Tarzan. I was not refering to you. It was to Tarzan. Thats why I retracted my comments. But everything else I said i meant. you should read the other comments that I posted and look past the comments that I just retracted. No, you and Tarzan are the idiots and the real @!$%#s. Thank you. @!$%#.
Hell your mentality and tarzans mentality is very offensive. @!$%#.
Truth hurts and facts are facts everytime i hear or see a black indiviual do a crime, i cringe and i think how baddly it makes the blacks look. Oh another black person.oh another black person. The ones that are F******
there lives up, there are alot of blacks that are making something of thier lives and aren't rapeist or killers. It's the small protion that makes the rest look bad. If you want to talk statistics i don't hear of too many black serial killers.
Tarzan, I am surprised they did not delete you already.
The Supremes need to revisit the issue of death penalty for rape of a child - it needs to be in place. I have completely turned around my view on the death penalty based on all the work the Innocence Project has done to free innocent men from death row. Nothing could be worse than executing a man for a crime he did not commit, especially when in so many cases the police and/or prosecutors know damn well he did not do the crime.
But, here, they have video, they will have DNA. Death penalty should have a second level of proof, more than just a jury finding of beyond reasonable doubt, because police and prosecutors will frame people as demostrated by history. But, in this case, this man needs to die. The Supremes need to revisit the issue.
Anyone who rapes someone at any age should automatically be put to death. These people are Fing disgusting pieces of $hit!
OK - I was not correct in what I said, she was not 10, but mentally 10. But the analysis should be the same, or maybe even more stringent. This guy just needs to die. Period. He is an animal, has done this kind of thing before, thinks it is OK, and would do it again 20 times if he could. ANIMAL.
According to DOJ stats, African-Americans (are they African visiting America or are they Americans yet?) commit 80% of the violent crimes in the US but make up only 20% of the total population. They are documented to be the single greatest threat to people of color in the US for ASSAULT, RAPE, MURDER, ROBBERY, LARCENY, FRAUD, IDENTITY THEFT and grand auto theft in America today. Any wonder why this little degenerate is loose to rape indefensible women on a public bus in LA?If he were a rare white on black rapist, half of LA would be burning tonite with Al Sharpton and Rev. (???) Jackson's blessing. Racism is the road to societal failure and all of LA fiddles while it heads overspeed toward disaster along with the Obamanation illiterate voting populace. Ben Franklin, John Jay and Presidents Washington, Madison, Adams, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan were right: we will fall from within without a single foreign invader firing a shot. God weep for America, for God allows us to have Free Will to choose our Own Destiny
@!$%#ING NIGERS, just like the prezs
I'm absolutely amazed that no one did anything about it while it occured.
Can we seriously consider now that whites and blacks are two separate species and should not live together?
I also think we should have separate presidents for white and black.