New York: Rape/Murder Capital of the World??
Luke Nichols
March 03, 2006
Just two months into 2006, NYPD statistics released Friday show murders and
rapes are on the rise.
Police say the number of murders and sexual assaults have gone up
significantly during the period ending February 26th. Homicides are also up
nearly 11 percent compared to the same time period in 2005.
Meanwhile, the number of reported rapes in the city are up 20 percent.
The number of sexual assaults has risen in Manhattan more than any other
borough. In Manhattan South, where murdered John Jay student Imette St.
Guillen was last seen at a bar, the number of rapes has doubled.
Last year 13 rapes were reported. So far this year, police say there have
been 26.
However, the number of murders in the neighborhood has decreased from six
last year to four this year.
An NYPD spokesman says overall crime is down citywide. He also says the
stats come too early in the year to give a full picture.
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Luke Nichols
"Luke Nichols" <ape...@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> City Murders, Rapes On The Rise In First Two Months Of 2006
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Must be a Trend in New York:
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82 years for man who raped, killed
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Jury convicts man of murder, rape
Feb 7, 2006
BY ALFONSO A. CASTILLO
STAFF WRITER
March 7, 2006
Worse than the sentence imposed on Joel Beecham yesterday for raping and
beating one of the mothers of his children - and murdering the other - is
the sentence Beecham imposed on his own children through his actions,
victims' relatives said as Beecham was given 82 years to life in prison.
"He got what he deserves," said Curtis Brown, 22, whose sister Tamara Brown
was found dead on a Wyandanch roadside in July 2004. "When my nephews ask
what happened, I have to tell them that their father is why their mother is
where she is."
Calling it the most "brutal," "menacing" and "horrific" case he'd handled,
Suffolk County court Judge Andrew Crecca gave the maximum sentence to
Beecham, 29. Beecham was convicted last month of murdering Brown, 28, and
assaulting, raping and sodomizing another woman, whom Newsday is not naming
because she is the victim of a sex crime.
"What I found most painful in this case is what you've done to your
children," said Crecca, recalling testimony that Beecham raped the unnamed
woman while forcing his three young sons to watch.
"It is the hope and desire of this court that the defendant never sees the
light of day again," Crecca said to rousing applause from about two dozen
victims' supporters in court.
Before being led away to shouts of "We gotcha" from the court gallery,
Beecham maintained his innocence.
"That family back there knows how much I love Tamara Brown and my children,"
he said, referring to Brown's family.
Prosecutors say that shortly after being released from prison for grand
larceny in June 2004, Beecham reunited with Brown - the mother of three of
his young children - and the other woman, who had two children with him and
drove from her home in Georgia with hopes of starting a new life with
Beecham.
Over the next several weeks, prosecutors say Beecham brutally assaulted the
two women while staying at various Suffolk motels and friends' homes. The
Georgia victim testified that Beecham choked her to unconsciousness, stabbed
her, burned her legs with a makeshift torch and doused her face with bleach
during one beating.
In a letter written by Brown's father, Curtis Brown, and read by Assistant
District Attorney Kerriann Kelly in court, he thanked the Georgia woman for
testifying. "Your courage in the absence of my own child's voice helped send
Joel to hell, where he so rightfully belongs," he wrote.
Weeks after the Georgia woman returned home, prosecutors say Beecham beat
Brown to death, breaking her neck, several ribs and other bones. Kelly said
Beecham used "a force so great that he had to have stomped on her body."
Although there were no eyewitnesses to the murder, prosecutors argued that
the injuries that killed Brown were remarkably similar to those of the other
woman.
Is it a trend of Parolees to rape, sodomize and murder?? What does that say
about the Criminal Justice System?
Luke
Luke Nichols
Also kind of funny this woman was found dead on a roadside. Shades of
Imette??
Luke
Messalina
Not as long as there is a South Africa.
Mez
Michael Snyder
Nowhere in this article is anything said that could REMOTELY
be construed as suggesting that NYC is the "rape/murder capital
of the world".