Police: Conn. teens mishear sex screams, beat man








HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A 16-year-old girl thought she heard her mother being assaulted by her boyfriend and rounded up some friends who beat him up, only to learn later that the couple actually were having sex, the woman and police said. The girl misinterpreted the woman's amorous screams, and she and four other teens went to the woman's bedroom in the Torrington home on June 6, police Lt. Bruce Whiteley said Thursday.

One of the teens beat the 25-year-old man with a bat and others punched him, police said. He suffered a black eye and several bruises.

The girl, two 17-year-old boys and Dilyen Langdeau, 19, of Torrington, were arrested Tuesday night and arraigned in Bantam Superior Court on Wednesday. Langdeau was charged with assault and conspiracy; the teens face similar counts. The fifth teenager was not charged.

A judge sealed the police report. The names of the girl and the two boys were not released because of their ages.

The 34-year-old woman, Melanie Arnold, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the girl is her daughter. Arnold denied she was screaming, and said her daughter thought she heard a slap and believed an assault was happening.

"Instead of asking what was going on, they assumed and took matters into their own hands," Arnold said. "Now they have to learn a lesson."

The teens knocked on the bedroom door and Arnold opened it, according to the couple, who recently broke up.

The teens rushed into the room and the man, Roger Swanson, said he didn't have a chance to explain himself. He said he tried to get away, but the teens chased him down and started beating him in the house.

He said he knelt down over a chair and tried to protect his face, but got hit in the eye and in the back. He said Arnold covered his back to try to protect him, but the teen with the bat started hitting him in the legs. Then the youths left.

"What if they fight someone else and those guys don't walk away? What if they kill somebody?" he said. "Then they're going to spend the rest of their lives in jail. These kids need to learn, go through the court system and see if you do something to somebody, you see what happens."


PASSION ENDS IN BASHIN' - New York Post


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funnier version of the story...from the NY post


The teen daughter of Melanie Arnold, 34, had thought her mom was being attacked at the Torrington home and allegedly enlisted pals to break it up.

"All I could think in my head was, 'Please, Lord, don't let them kill me,' " Arnold's rowdy Romeo, Roger Swanson, 25, told The Post.

Swanson -- who writes on his MySpace page that he would like to die "getting laid" -- said he and Arnold, who was celebrating her birthday, were "doing our thing" when the 16-year-old daughter and her friends started banging on the door.

"We were in the middle of having sex, and there was a knocking on the door," said Swanson, whose dreams include meeting Larry the Cable Guy.

"I was slapping her ass, and they mistaked it for me beating on her."

Once inside, the teens drew a bead on the hapless horndog, a fruit farmer and father of three who used to work on a NASCAR pit crew.

"They didn't ask any questions," he said. "They just pointed at me and said, 'We got you now!' I was backed in a corner and had nowhere to go."

Swanson made a failed dash for the exit.

"It sounded like hail off a car windshield, the beating they gave me," he recalled.

He tried to seek cover, but was knocked down.

"I look up and I see this bat coming right towards my chest so I rolled over and took it with my back," Swanson said.

"Oh, man, did that hurt."

Arnold tried to come to his defense but the bat-wielding youth kept it coming, leaving him with a black eye and bruises.

"Instead of asking what was going on, they assumed and took matters into their own hands," Arnold said. "Now they have to learn a lesson."

Dilyen Langdeau, 19, was charged with assault and conspiracy. The girl and two 17-year-old boys were charged as well.

Swanson said their clamorous coital sessions had drawn the ire of Arnold's daughter before.

"Once in a while, things would get loud, and her daughter had expressed her disliking of it," he said.

He and Arnold broke up when he refused to drop the charges.

tom.liddy@nypost.com

Bit grossed out having sex like you're on stage while the kids are home, probably would have kicked in the door and beat him down myself I had to put up with the s***

*yawn*

Waste of time.

Since when do MEN get off on these kind of gossip tabloid/Hello mag stories ?

can't speak for "men"...but i fell out reading this story....