http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/26/disabl...eref=rss_latest

 

Two teenagers hid overnight in a house and spent more than six hours torturing a disabled woman after her mother left in the morning, authorities said.

 

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said the teenage boy and girl tied up the 18-year-old woman, clubbed her, kicked her, shaved her head and soaked her with water before making her walk barefoot outside in the snow.

 

They also ignored pleas from the woman, who had undergone brain surgery, not to hit her in the head, investigators said.

 

"This is one of the worst crimes I've ever seen," Jones said Monday. "They are sick animals, apparently just doing this for kicks and no other reason."

 

Cheyenne Blanton, 17, and Joseph Nagle, 16, both of Hamilton, were arraigned Monday on juvenile delinquency charges that include aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, felonious assault and vandalism, according to juvenile court officials.

 

They were ordered held in the county's juvenile detention center pending a court appearance later this week. Neither entered a plea, and both requested court-appointed attorneys. Those attorneys had not been named Monday.

 

The teens are accused of physically abusing Ashley Clark, 18, for more than six hours Friday at her home in Hanover Township, about 35 miles northwest of Cincinnati.

 

Both Jones and the woman's mother, Sheila Clark, want the teenagers tried as adults, and Jones said the two could get 75 years to life in prison if tried and convicted as adults.

 

"I want full justice for my daughter," Clark said Monday. "Those two never need to walk the streets again."

 

Clark would not comment on details of the case or provide specifics on her daughter's disabilities or injuries, other than to say that her daughter was doing as well as possible.

 

"I can't understand how anyone could do this to anyone, but especially to someone with such a beautiful, loving heart," Sheila Clark said.

 

Messages seeking comment on whether adult charges would be pursued were left at the prosecutor's office Monday. There was no answer at a telephone listing for a Joseph Nagel in Hamilton. There was no listing for Cheyenne Blanton.

 

Jones said the teenagers hid overnight in the basement of the Clark home, intending to steal the car and leave town before an upcoming juvenile court appearance date for one of the suspects.

 

They apparently missed their chance to get the car when Sheila Clark left the house in it Friday morning, and they went into the kitchen to get something to eat before going upstairs and waking her daughter, Jones said. The pair then spent the next six to eight hours torturing Ashley Clark, he said.

 

The mother realized something had happened when she came home, saw the house ransacked and called 911. A neighbor also called the sheriff's department to report two juveniles in the neighbor's yard.

 

Detectives apprehended the teenagers a few minutes later in nearby woods after following their footprints in the snow, Jones said.

 

those are the kinds of people who should never be let out of prison

I'm not going to lie, I read the first line and couldn't read anymore. I really don't want to.

How long till the kid's mama comes out with the line "My boy wouldn't do that....he's a good boy!" ???

 

The death penalty is too good for these kind of deviants. But then again, we don't want to waterboard someone that wants to kill thousands of us.

Just lock them in a room with Sheila and a bat. Come back in an hour or so.

Just lock them in a room with Sheila and a bat. Come back in an hour or so.

Make sure to tie those two subhumans up first, because they like that kind of thing.

The death penalty is too good for these kind of deviants. But then again, we don't want to waterboard someone that wants to kill thousands of us.

 

I am not going to lie. It is exactly these kind of crimes that makes me appreciate the death penalty. It conflicts me with the whole "Do not kill thing", but the anger over crimes like this takes over in me. There is no punishment that could fit this crime.

The "club" was a baseball bat, according to the NYT, and they are facing, at minimum, eight to twenty eight years but a grand jury could charge them with more things. I'm just worried about the girl, and I'm going to send that family a card as soon as I can find a hospital or mailing address.

 

Edit: other sources say they face 75-100 "if convicted of all charges" so I don't know what, exactly, they're facing now. Whatever it is, I hope it's...justice.

 

And I posted this in SLAM but it's in the Filibuster, so I commented but I mean this to be as non-political as possible.

Edited February 27, 200818 yr by Gregory Pratt

Yes, it was deemed a Filibuster-worthy thread topic and was moved.

Cheyenne Blanton, 17, and Joseph Nagle, 16, both of Hamilton, were arraigned Monday on juvenile delinquency charges that include aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, felonious assault and vandalism, according to juvenile court officials.

 

How about attempted murder?

 

 

Yes, it was deemed a Filibuster-worthy thread topic and was moved.

 

I had, and have, no objections to that.