A 16-year-old's visit to a Hollywood,
Florida home turned into a nightmare
when a pack of five teens descended upon
her, dragged her by the hair, kicked and
punched her, then held her down while
she was raped in a videotaped assault,
police say.
Four of the accused and the victim are
students at South Broward High,
according to their Facebook pages. The
three boys and two girls, ages 15 to 19,
have been charged with felony sexual
battery and false imprisonment.
"It just makes it all the more disturbing
when you have this many people
working in concert and aggression,"
Maria Schneider, state prosecutor in
charge of the juvenile unit, said Monday.
"I can't imagine how overwhelmed and
under siege someone would feel under
these circumstances. It's very traumatic."
Hospital officials declined to say whether
the victim, who bled from an ear and
drifted in and out of consciousness with
her eyes swollen shut when police
questioned her Saturday morning,
remained hospitalized Monday. Because
of the nature of the crime, the Sun
Sentinel is not naming her.
The rape suspect, Jayvon Woolfork, 19,
stood next to one of his alleged
accomplices, Lanel Singleton, 18, in tan
jailhouse scrubs, their wrists cuffed
behind their backs, as a judge ordered
them jailed without bond Monday
morning.
"Both of her eyes were closed from being
beaten, she had blood coming from one of
her ears," Broward County Judge John
"Jay" Hurley said. "The court is
concerned for the safety of this 16-year-
old alleged victim."
Woolfork, originally from Immokalee,
recently posted on Facebook that he was
living with a sister in Hollywood. When
he was arrested, he told police that he
had oral sex and intercourse with the
accuser that night, police said.
When Singleton, from South Broward
High, was arrested, he admitted to
participating in and videotaping the
attack.
The three accused minors, also from
South Broward High -- Patricia Montes,
15, of Hollywood; Erica Avery, 16, of
Coconut Creek; and Dwight Henry, 17, of
North Miami Beach -- will be held in
juvenile detention for 21 days while state
prosecutors decide whether they will be
charged as adults. When Montes and
Avery were picked up by police, they
admitted to the beating but denied
stripping the accuser of her clothes.
Montes' cellphone, however, contained
several video clips of the attack,
including the forcible removal of the
girl's clothing.
According to police reports, the violent
encounter occurred at about 7:30 p.m.
Friday at Woolfork's home in the 1600
block of McKinley Street. Police say
Montes asked the girl to Woolfork's
home, where they listened to music and
watched TV until Woolfork, Singleton,
Henry and Avery joined them from
another part of the home and demanded
that the girl have sex with "Jay" or face
a beating.
When she refused, they punched her,
kicked her and dragged her by the hair
into the backyard, where they pushed
her down stairs and smashed her head on
the concrete.
When they dragged her back inside,
Henry allegedly blocked the front door
and said: "If you leave, I am going to f---
you up!" She was next dragged into a
bedroom, where the teens stripped off
her clothes and held her down while
Woolfork raped her.
The report says that after the assault, the
girl was allowed to leave -- minus her
shoes -- and she made her way to her
grandmother's nearby home.
The girl's grandmother called police
Saturday morning. When they met with
the girl at 7:18 a.m. Saturday, she was
covered in bruises, had broken bones in
her face, had "extreme swelling" of both
eyes, blood coming from her left ear and
was in and out of consciousness. She was
taken to an emergency room.
She was unable to name or describe her
attackers, but she identified Woolfork out
of a photo lineup.
Several students, as they left school
Monday afternoon, said they either had
not heard about the violent episode or
did not realize it involved fellow South
Broward High students.
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