Woman allegedly stabs accused child molester

11-21-16 Montana:

A Great Falls woman is accused of stabbing a man suspected of sexually abusing children.

Tracy Lynn Bossie is charged with one count of assault with a weapon, a felony, for allegedly stabbing Wallace Bossie Jr. on Saturday. She made her initial court appearance Monday on a $200,000 arrest warrant.

Charging documents say Tracy Bossie pulled up to Great Falls Fire Station 1 Saturday with her horn blaring. Firefighters made contact with her, the report says, and saw that she had multiple injuries to both arms and was covered in blood.

Documents say she told the firefighters she stabbed someone, specifically Wallace Bossie Jr., because he had been recently charged with sexually assaulting children. She also told them she stabbed him multiple times in the neck and back, and that she thought he was dead, documents say.

Smiley face tattoo, beating leads to two arrests

7-27-16 Louisiana:

Smiley face tattoo, beating leads to two arrests

A smiley face tattoo and a man with blood on his hands were key pieces of evidence that led the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office (CPSO) to arrest two persons this week in a case that involved a savage beating of a man accused of child abuse.

James Don Mulvihill, 311 B.B. Beard Road, Monterey, age 59, was charged Tuesday with four counts of molestation of a juvenile.

The man charged with the beating -- Stanley Vernon Schickel, 44, 218 Bailey Circle, Ferriday – was charged Sunday with false imprisonment, attempted second-degree murder and a probation hold.

CPSO spokesman Vernon Stevens said this morning that officers began to unravel the bizarre case Sunday when they responded to a call to pick up a debit card in the possession of a person living on B.B. Beard Road. Upon arriving at the residence, officers observed a man – identified as Schickel -- emerge from the house with blood on his hands and clothes.

Tennessee father charged with beating up man who tried to solicit his children

7-16-15 Tennessee:

MAURY COUNTY, TN (WKRN) – A Maury County father is facing criminal charges after he allegedly beat up a man accused of soliciting his two young daughters.

Kenneth Faulkner, 30, is charged with aggravated assault. He was arrested last Thursday and held in the Maury County jail before posting bond the next day.

Faulkner says he was upset that Thomas Williams, 67, was sentenced to just three years of supervised probation for soliciting his two daughters, ages 4 and 7.

He says his children are related to Williams by marriage.

The father told News 2 he suspected sexual abuse and reported it to the Columbia Police Department last December.

According to court documents, on March 5 a Maury County Grand Jury indicted Williams on two counts of solicitation of a minor, defined as “unlawfully and intentionally and being eighteen years of age or older, by means of oral, written, or electronic communication, electronic mail or Internet services, directly or through another, to intentionally command, request, hire, persuade, invite or attempt to induce a person, to-wit to engage in the offense of sexual battery by an authority figure.”

Would-be rapist critically beaten by three Good Samaritans

7-21-15 Indiana:

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (21Alive) – At last report, a man continued to cling to life after being severely beaten by three men. But there's a twist to the story. 1:30 Monday morning, the Villages of Hanna, formerly known as Eden Green apartments.

As a woman walked through the apartment complex, a man grabbed her shirt, dragged her across the street, and began assaulting her. When she yelled for help, three men ran up, pulled the man off of her, beat him up and stomped him in the head, then left before police arrived.

When they got there, the would-be rapist wasn't responsive, and was rushed to the hospital where he was last listed in critical condition.

A police spokesman said since the man wasn't armed, and there were three other men, battery wasn't necessary. He says instead of being vigilantes, they should have called 911 immediately and been good witnesses.

Nicole Pelletier, Outraged Mom, Allegedly Assaults Neighbor Who Faces Child Porn Charges

9-27-2014 Massachusetts:

A Massachusetts mom faces felony charges after she admitted to assaulting her neighbor, who had returned home after being arrested on child porn charges.

According to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun, Nicole Pelletier, 42, entered Gary Spring's condo through an unlocked door the evening of Sept. 22.

Spring, 61, a former Merrimack College professor who was recently fired after being charged with possession of child pornography, told police that he was in bed when Pelletier entered his bedroom and punched him square in the face.

The accused man lives in the apartment directly below Pelletier and her two children, 11 and 13. The woman, who was described in the report as "crying and visibly upset" with blood on her arm and hands, called 911 herself after attacking her neighbor.

Women chase, beat man accused of attempted child rape

9-29-2014 Ohio:

CINCINNATI —A Hamilton County man is accused of trying to force a girl to perform oral sex.

The incident happened at an apartment complex on Durrell Avenue on Sunday. Police said a man lured the girl to a basement laundry room and tried to force himself upon her.

WLWT News 5's Andrew Setters said a witness, Rasheeda Lawson, said she heard a woman yell “Someone call the police, he just touched my daughter,” and saw a man, later identified as Terry Johnson, running away while trying to pull up his pants.

The 7-year-old victim's mom ran after Johnson, while Lawson followed in her car. "He was running, trying to get his pants back up, and couldn't never get them up," Lawson said.

Lawson said the women caught up to Johnson at a cemetery on Victory Parkway. Lawson said she keeps Mace and a stick in her vehicle and used them both.

Man beaten, left in Wisconsin woods for wolves: prosecutors

UPDATE 3-25: See last article "what beaten fellow said" -v- "What perpetrators claim"

3-21-2014 Wisconsin:

Two men and two women beat a man and left him to be attacked by wolves in the northern Wisconsin woods after accusing him of inappropriately touching a child, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Raymond Jones, 45, his wife April, 38, their son Justin Bey, 21 and his friend Samantha McClellan, 18, were charged with attempted first degree intentional homicide, kidnapping and several other felonies, prosecutors said in a criminal complaint.

The four are accused of beating the man, age 40, at the Jones' house on March 10 and 11 in Wabeno, about 95 miles north of Green Bay, before hauling him to nearby woods and beating him again, the complaint said.

The man's name is being withheld because he is a victim of an alleged crime.

The man, who was a friend of April Jones and had been staying at the house, sustained fractures to his face, a broken nose and jaw, and two broken ribs, according to the complaint.

The group told investigators they left him in the woods where they hoped wolves would attack him, the complaint filed in Forest County Circuit Court said.

Police: Naked peeping Tom beaten

9-5-2013 New Mexico:

Man peered through window at teens, is in critical condition at UNMH, police say

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Albuquerque police are conducting an investigation into a battery that left a man in critical condition in the southwest part of the city. A caller said the man beaten was naked.

The man was left near the intersection of Corriz Drive and Garnet Avenue SW, according to Albuquerque Police Department’s Violent Crimes Detectives.

The incident occurred at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday, when a caller told 911 a naked man was caught peering into the window of their home, watching the caller’s 13- and 15-year-old daughters inside the residence.

Katrina Chavez, who lives in the home, said the man made noises. She also said her son was punched by the man when he ran outside and told the peeping Tom to leave.

Police said three men from inside the residence chased the naked man away from the property before a fight ensued. When officers arrived they found the naked male subject badly beaten in the street.

The man was transported to University of New Mexico Hospital and is in unstable, critical condition as of noon Thursday.

The three men on scene were questioned and have been released, according to police. The investigation is ongoing. No one is under arrest.

The three men were the father and brother of the two female juveniles and a friend of the brother. Their ages were 29, 19 and 19, respectively. The District Attorney is working with detectives to determine possible charges pending for the three detained men. ..Source.. by Anna Velasquez

Guilty pleas in vigilante baseball bat attack

12-5-2013 California:

A Temecula father, his teen daughter and her friend have pleaded guilty in connection with the vigilante beating of a man the girl had accused of raping her.

The father, David Ray Mills, 36, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Dec. 4, to being an accessory to the Jan. 13 attack at a Temecula park in which Miguel Esteban Cruz, 20, was beaten with a baseball bat. Mills was sentenced to four years’ probation and time served.

Mills’ 16-year-old daughter, who was charged as an adult, pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to time served and four years’ probation. The Press-Enterprise does not routinely identify victims of sexual crimes.

Her friend, Andre Edwin Dickerson Jr., 21, who carried out the beating, pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to six years in prison.

All three defendants had been charged with attempted murder, mayhem and vandalism. But those charges were dismissed as part of the defendants’ agreements with prosecutors.

John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney’s office, said in a written statement that prosecutors reached the plea agreements after a thorough review of the evidence.

“We believe the pleas and sentences in this case reflect what would have happened had the case proceeded to trial,” Hall said.

Rape Suspect Sets Fire to Escape Angry Neighbors

6-1-2008 Texas:

The mother of the girl who Jeremy Dontae Craft is accused of punching in the face and sexually assaulting spotted him ambling down a Fort Worth street on Thurs.

She began chasing him and was soon joined by a host of other citizens, who collectively chased him into the Prima Vera apartment complex on E. Berry St.

Apparently Craft, holed up in an apartment, set fire to a mattress to create a diversion and then escaped through a side window. ..News Source.. by MyFox Dallas

Father who police say beat peeping Tom to face charges

9-6-2013 New Mexico:

Suspect still in hospital, will also be charged

The father who police said beat a man who was allegedly peering into his daughter's bedroom window will be charged.

They said the accused peeping Tom suspect was so badly beaten, he's in the hospital.

On Friday, outraged neighbors came to that father's defense.

"We've got a father, a young father, who could lose everything because of this one person," said Michael Salter.

That one person has been identified by police as 29-year old Dylan Maho, who police said was found naked around 2:30 a.m. Thursday morning outside a young girl's window, looking in, and making noises.

"It was moaning and groaning, that's what she thought she heard at first," said the girl's aunt Thursday. "She thought it was a cat."

"You can see that I'm starting to shake, and I'm not wanting to speak about it much more," Salter said.

The girl's father, Emilio Chavez III, his son, and his son's friend all ran after Maho.

Springfield man, detained; by neighbors, arrested on child-enticement charges as he is released from hospital

5-27-2009 Massachusetts:

SPRINGFIELD - Was it street justice that led to 61-year-old Randolph Barden's beating by neighbors earlier this month?

Or, was it some kind of vendetta on the part of the girls who accused him of attempting to lure them into his car with candy?

Barden's lawyer and a Hampden County assistant district attorney laid out their opposing views of Barden's beating in the McKnight neighborhood during his arraignment on child enticement charges Wednesday morning in Springfield District Court.

The beating that sent Barden to Baystate Medical Center for the better part of a week, occurred Friday night, according Sgt. John M. Delaney.

Officers Anthony Sowers and Craig Davis, dispatched to the area of Bay and Marion streets shortly after 9:30 p.m., discovered Barden laying on the ground suffering from injuries "and the whole neighborhood gathered around," Delaney said.

Residents chase, beat sex assault suspect

8-18-2009 Pennsylvania:

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Philadelphia residents allegedly beat a sexual assault suspect they caught and held until police arrived, a Philadelphia police spokesman said.

The man, whose name was not reported, was chased Saturday night by residents who said they believed he had sexually assaulted a 22-year-old woman that morning.

Residents had heard the man held the woman at gunpoint and assaulted her near 56th Street and Lansdowne Avenue, police told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

This is the second recent vigilante action in the city, the newspaper said.

Police said residents of the Kensington neighborhood beat Jose Carrasquillo, 26, a suspect in the June rape of an 11-year-old girl who was on her way to school. ..Source.. by UPI

Husband stabbed alleged rapist

5-31-2013 Cayman:

Imposing sentence of two years, judge cites ‘very high provocation’

A husband who believed his wife had been raped was sentenced recently to two years imprisonment for wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm to the man he thought had raped her.

The husband had pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, but guilty to the wounding charge.

When accusations of rape are made, the Caymanian Compass does not report details of the case that would lead to the identity of the victim.

Justice Alexander Henderson heard the circumstances of the offence from Crown counsel Candia James. Defence attorney Fiona Robertson spoke in mitigation and the judge adjourned until the next day.

When the matter resumed, Justice Henderson summarised the material that had been presented to him. He said the defendant was enjoying an ostensibly happy relationship with his wife. On the day of the incident, she told him she had been raped by an acquaintance two days previously. It was not clear from the evidence if she had or had not been raped.

The judge said he approached the matter on the basis that the husband held a sincere belief that what his wife told him was true.

“The defendant was, of course, dismayed and angered by what he had been told,” the judge commented. “He became irrational.”

Shortly after being told, the husband had a conversation on his wife’s phone with the other man. An arrangement was made for the man to come to the house. Justice Henderson said the man no doubt thought he was going to enjoy a visit with the defendant’s wife.

Instead, when the man arrived, the defendant stabbed him once in the chest. The knife penetrated as far as the man’s heart, but lacerated the heart only to a slight degree.

The defendant was apparently filled with immediate remorse and called 911 for an ambulance. The wounding victim spent 10 days in the hospital.

For the most part, the husband cooperated with police and made repeated inquiries about the condition of his victim. When interviewed, he was shaking and in such a distressed state that emergency services were called to the scene to take a look at him, the judge noted.

In passing sentence, he said he was taking into account the defendant’s guilty plea, previous good character, genuine remorse and the fact that this was an isolated incident with a single stab wound, not a repeated attack.

“Finally, I am satisfied that there was a very high degree of provocation in this case. The defendant did have some time to allow his passion to cool before he stabbed the victim; it was not an act that occurred immediately after the revelation of the rape.

“However, the time period was short enough that I am sure the offender was acting in a largely irrational manner and impulsively,” Justice Henderson concluded.

In these unusual circumstances, he considered this an appropriate case to depart from UK guidelines cited to him, which set a sentencing range of five to nine years.

In his view the appropriate starting point was three years, with a deduction of one year for the guilty plea. Since the defendant is not Caymanian, the judge said he would leave the question of deportation to the Immigration Board. ..Source.. by Carol Winker

Detroit community beats alleged rapist of 15 y.o. girl with Down Syndrome after slow police response

8-12-2013 Michigan:

Community members in one Detroit neighborhood took matters into their own hands and beat an accused rapist of a 15-year-old girl with Down Syndrome after they say Detroit Police failed to respond.

Friday marks the 23rd day without an arrest after the 15-year-old victim said a man grabbed her while she was walking to work, took her to his apartment and raped her in early July.

The suspect lives in the same neighborhood as the victim. Members of the Hubbard Farms community say the man has mental health issues. They posted his face on flyers around the neighborhood to warn others.

Family friend of the victim, Megan Herres says the teen waited for seven hours at the hospital for Detroit Police to administer a rape kit. She reportedly waited five days before police interviewed her about the sexual assault and 21 days until Detroit Police sent the rape kit to the Michigan State Police Crime Lab.

“That’s just not acceptable,” said Herres. “DPD, we want to see an effort toward sexual assaults of minors,” she continued “It’s not good to live in a community where people don’t feel safe."

Other community members were equally outraged at what they believed was a lack of response by Detroit Police and on Monday took matters into their own hands. The community beat the accused rapist with a baseball bat so badly he needed to go to the hospital.

Herres said vigilante justice is not the answer, but frustrations grew and boiled over. “There was a lot of community response in asking the police for their assistance in apprehending the perpetrator and it wasn’t happening in a timely manner,” said Herres.

Pedophile Suspect Lured, Beaten By Victims Family

Street justice has got to stop, we have police and laws to handle crimes, vigilantism is plain wrong and these folks need to be charged to set an example, at a minimum...

8-19-2009 California:

A 25-year-old man who allegedly solicited a 14-year-old girl for sex is under arrest after the girl's family got involved and took the law into their own hands, according to authorities.

The Sacramento Police Department says that Christopher Guzman went to Garcia Bend Park on Monday night, believing that he was meeting up with a 14-year-old girl he had met on a social networking website.

"This would've been the first physical contact between the suspect and the victim," said Sacramento Police Department Sgt. Norm Leong.

As Guzman waited in his car, police say five or six of the girl's family members walked up and began attacking him and his vehicle. Guzman tried to drive away, but the family members chased him, forced him out of his car and held him for police, who arrested Guzman but did not detain the relatives.

"[Guzman] was bloody from that," Sgt. Leong said. "We'll review it and see if what they did was reasonable given the circumstances in that they were trying to detain him."

Police said that Guzman was planning to videotape the young girl in a sex act. ..Source.. by David Begnaud See video

Two arrested in attack on accused child molester

11-10-2009 Florida:

Two Broward men were in jail Sunday after allegedly beating a third man with concrete blocks when a young boy said the man had fondled him.

The Fort Lauderdale man who police say was severely beaten by a furious father after allegedly fondling a 3-year-old boy had been arrested twice before -- but never convicted -- in sex crime cases, according to court records.

Luke Petruschke had to be placed in a medically induced coma Saturday after he was kicked, punched and bludgeoned with concrete blocks and rocks by Manuel Vega, 27, and another man, according to Davie police. The attack took place just after Vega's son revealed that Petruschke had fondled him the night before at the family's home in Davie, authorities said.

Officials at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood would not release Petruschke's medical condition Sunday afternoon.

Petruschke, 38, was acquitted in 1997 of two sex-related charges in Sarasota County and, four years later, prosecutors in Osceola County dropped a lewd and lascivious molestation charge against him, online court dockets show. Details of the two cases were unavailable Sunday.

Davie police spokesman Sgt. Greg Gasse said that if Petruschke recovers, he will face charges of lewd and lascivious molestation.

While Vega's anger was understandable, Gasse said, it was not his place to act as ``judge, jury and executioner'' immediately after the boy made the accusation.

Vega now faces more serious charges than Petruschke, and whatever the boy suffered will be compounded by having his father behind bars, Gasse said.

Vega's mother said her son is a good father who ``lost it.'' Vega met Petruschke about two months ago, and they would go fishing and play cards together, said Evelyn Vega, the 3-year-old's grandmother.

``I pray that [Petruschke] lives for my son's sake because if he dies, my son will be in jail for a long time,'' she said. ``We will not drop these charges. He will pay for what he did to my grandson.''

Manuel Vega and his friend, Krish Carter, 43, are being held at the Broward County Jail without bond, facing attempted murder charges. Vega has a criminal history that includes convictions for grand theft, burglary and cocaine possession.

Petruschke had spent Friday night at Vega's home in the 5100 block of Davie Road after having dinner with the family, police said. The next morning, as he prepared to leave, the boy told his parents that Petruschke had fondled him.

Davie police responding to a 911 call about the suspected molestation arrived to find a bloody Petruschke staggering out of a nearby wooded area with severe head injuries.

Vega claimed that Petruschke had wrecked his Chevy Cavalier, but an investigator quickly concluded the damage wasn't the result of a crash, police said. Car windows had been smashed and there were two bloody chunks of concrete inside.

A witness later told police he saw Vega and Carter breaking out the car's windows with the concrete, punching Petruschke inside the car and then pulling him out to continue beating and kicking him. Vega and Carter left Petruschke motionless on the ground and went into Carter's home to wash their hands, the witness told police.

When Vega was arrested, he told the officers, ``That is my son, man. What would you do?''

Evelyn Vega said her grandson seems to be doing fine emotionally, but has asked for his dad.

``Manuel has been in jail before and done his time, but he loves his son and he cares for his son dearly,'' she said. ``I'm pretty sure he's driving himself crazy because he can't see [his son], talk to him and give him a hug. I know Manuel is destroyed in there thinking about this.'' ..Source.. by JON BURSTEIN, Sun Sentinel

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2 Men Arrested in Attack On Suspected Molester

10-25-2009 Florida:

Father, Neighbor Arrested in Savage Attack in Davie

DAVIE, Fla. -- Two men have been arrested in Davie for allegedly attacking another man whom they believed had molested the son of one of the suspects.

The man who was beaten, Luke Petruschke, was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood where he was placed in intensive care.

Police said Petruschke was staying at a friend's home when that man's 3-year-old boy told his father Petruschke had fondled him.

Investigators said the homeowner, Manuel Vega and a neighbor, Krish Carter, attacked Petruschke with their fists and feet, and even beat him with concrete blocks and rocks.

Vega and Carter are charged with attempted murder.

Petruschke is being charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child. ..Source.. by JustNews.com

Priest beaten, not bowed

11-12-2009 Florida:

TARPON SPRINGS - A visiting Greek Orthodox priest who was the victim of a tire iron attack in Tampa two days ago was back at work Wednesday, officiating over a funeral at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral.

The Rev. Alexios Marakis did not return telephone calls for comment about Monday night's incident, in which the attacker, a Marine reservist who works in a pharmacy in Palm Harbor, said he was acting in self defense. He accused the priest of being a robber, terrorist and molester.

The parish of St. Nicholas is rallying around Marakis, 29.

"The guy is like a saint," said Nicholas Manias, who serves as church council president. "He's a New Testament, turn-the-cheek kind of guy. The first thing he said when they went to see him in the emergency room? He asked if the other guy was OK.

"He's showing us what a good Christian does," Manias said.

Tampa police said that Marakis was in Tampa on Monday to bless a retiring priest in the West Shore part of town and accidentally got lost downtown. At the Seaport Channelside Apartments, he got out of his car, police said, and sought directions from Jasen D. Bruce.

Bruce grabbed a tire iron from the trunk of his car and struck Marakis, police said. He later told police that he couldn't understand Marakis and initially thought he was being robbed. He later told police he thought the robed priest was an Arab terrorist who was going to blow him up.

Police said that Bruce also accused the cleric of trying to molest him.

Bruce chased injured Marakis and pinned him to the ground three blocks away. It was Bruce, 28, who called 911. Police on Wednesday said the tape of that call would not be released for a day or two, if that soon.

Bruce was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and released after posting $7,500 bail. His attorney, Jeffrey Brown, said his client was only trying to protect himself.

Catherine Billiris, a 72-year-old member of St. Nicholas, said that church members are in full support of the priest and are angry about the allegations made by Bruce.

She said she doesn't buy the Marine reservist's story. "I just don't believe it," she said, "I'm sorry that's all I can say."

Marakis is recovering from bruises and cuts, Manias said.

In a letter to the parish sent out this morning, Manias said that, "We should not allow this terrible act to make us angry, hateful or vengeful because those come from the evil one. We will continue to pray for Father Alexios and his recovery. We should also pray for the man who did this to Father Alexios and the man's lawyer."

Marakis is upset about the incident, said Manias, who teaches ethics at St. Petersburg College, "because he doesn't want the ministry to be scandalized." ..Source.. by KEITH MORELLI and MARK DOUGLAS

No place for vigilante justice

1-25-2010 Florida:

VIGILANTE justice, in whatever form it takes, should never be condoned.

The actions of one – or several – people in the hinterland town of Beerwah over the past couple of days should be condemned by everyone living in the area.

The flyers distributed around the town, pinpointing the name and address of a man charged with a child sex offense, were rightfully quickly taken down by police.

However, no matter how fast they were removed, there will be some people who did not know the man’s name who now do and they know an address he sometimes frequents as well.

What must be remembered is that this man has not been proven guilty.

He is still to have his day in court, has yet to enter a plea and, as our laws dictate, is innocent until found otherwise.

Those who produced the flyers and were involved in their distribution are the ones who are guilty in this instance.

The angry Beerwah residents would do well to take notice of the words of Hetty Johnson, from the child sexual abuse victims organisation Bravehearts.

“By naming the person, they are actually doing him a favour,” she told the Daily.

“The man can argue that he wouldn’t be able to get a fair trial.

“It could ruin the whole investigation.”

Sensible and cool heads are needed in this case. ..Source.. by Sunshone Coast Daily.com

Accused rapist beaten in revenge

5-23-2010 Washington:

Two men were arrested early Sunday morning after they attacked another man who was accused of raping the wife of one of the assailants.

Issaquah police were called to the 400 block of NE Birch Street around 2 a.m. on the report of a rape. When they arrived, they found a 31-year-old Kirkland man unconscious and bleeding from cuts on his head. He was quickly taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment of his injuries.

Officers learned that the injured man was the suspect in the reported rape. He had been attacked by the woman's husband, a 31-year-old Renton man, and his friend, a 30-year-old Issaquah man, who were at the home when the reported rape occurred.

The two attackers were arrested, taken to the King County Jail and booked for first degree assault. The condition of the Kirkland man is not known. Issaquah police say that the rape suspect and the victim were acquaintances and thus believe that no break-in took place. ..Source.. by KOMO-TV STAFF