Child Rapist - Vigilante Beatdown in Philly

BrooklynGal · (#1 (**permalink**))

A sick devil raped an eleven year old girl in Philly and was dumb enough to be walking the streets in the same hood he committed his crime.

But Philly folks weren't having it.

They caught him and beat his ass down in the street vigilante style. If more people came together like this and just took care of the problem, we'd have less of these pedophiles running around jacking our children up for life.

Yo, Philly kept it real on this. Check out the photos of the neighborhood heroes here:

Mob nabs, beats man sought in girl's rape | Philadelphia Daily News | 06/03/2009

Mob nabs, beats man sought in girl’s rape

In ‘02 he faced charge of attempted rape
Daily News Staff

DEMETRICE REYNOLDS said she had one wish for the thug who brutally raped her 11-year-old daughter: “I want him dead.”

Her wish may as well have been broadcast across Kensington.

About a dozen neighborhood residents flew into a rage yesterday afternoon when they cornered Jose Carrasquillo, who police said they had linked through physical evidence to the heinous Monday-morning rape of Reynolds’ daughter.

The justice-seeking mob rained fists, feet and wooden sticks upon Carrasquillo, 26, for several minutes until police intervened at Front and Clearfield streets.

When the dust cleared, Carrasquillo, whose last known address was Orkney Street near York, was in critical condition at a local hospital, and police officials were thanking the locals for helping them catch a man they had pursued feverishly but identified only as “a person of interest.”

“Justice, community-style. It’s a beautiful thing,” said a resident who declined to be identified.

“The people took it [the case] to heart,” said Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey. “It says a lot about the community.”

Ramsey noted, however, that he didn’t condone the burst of vigilante justice. “They injured him pretty badly,” he said.

Carrasquillo, who was being treated at Temple University Hospital last night for an array of head wounds, has not been charged with raping Reynolds’ daughter, a fifth-grader at Russell Conwell Middle School who was attacked while walking to school.

Law-enforcement sources said that detectives are still compiling evidence for their case against Carrasquillo. Charges will have to be approved by the District Attorney’s Office.

Police began circulating Carrasquillo’s mug shot across the city yesterday morning, but seemed to walk a fine line in how they portrayed him.

Capt. John Darby, the commander of the Special Victims Unit, said at a morning news conference that police wanted to bring Carrasquillo in only “for contempt of court, for a prior summary offense.”

But he added that investigators had “linked [Carrasquillo] through physical evidence” to a rear yard on Westmoreland Street near Emerald, where the rape occurred.

“We know this male was in that yard,” said Darby.

News of Carrasquillo’s public beating and subsequent capture delighted Reynolds, who spent yesterday by her daughter’s side at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, where the girl had undergone surgery to repair the injuries she suffered when she was repeatedly raped.

“I’m glad,” Reynolds said. “I’m really happy. I mean, he deserves worse than what he did to my daughter.”

She said her daughter is an “A” student who enjoys computers and reading.

Brenda Orr, the girl’s grandmother, said the youngster “knows they got him, and they can tell because her whole demeanor has changed. She doesn’t look scared anymore.”

Darby said the girl’s ordeal began about 8:20 a.m., when she took her younger sister to the Little Treasures day-care center in Kensington.

A man began walking alongside the two girls and even managed to get inside the day-care facility.

“He was buzzed into the day care. I spoke with them yesterday. They thought he was with her,” Reynolds said.

“They should have known something was up. This could have been prevented,” Reynolds added.

Employees at the center yesterday declined to comment.

Darby said the man followed Reynolds’ daughter after she left the center and threatened to shoot her if she didn’t stay with him.

They wandered six blocks to a yard on Westmoreland, where the girl was raped several times, Darby said.

“She didn’t deserve this,” said Cynthia Orr, the victim’s aunt. “That girl never hurt nobody.”

“He’s going to burn in hell for that,” she added. “He wouldn’t want someone doing that to his kids.”

A manhunt was soon born, with Carrasquillo the focus, even though he was not formally accused of the crime.

The Fraternal Order of Police offered $10,000 to anyone who could help get Carrasquillo into custody by 5 p.m. yesterday. Carrasquillo was apprehended about an hour earlier.

Last night, FOP president John McNesby said two Kensington residents who helped apprehend Carrasquillo were going to receive the reward. “They stepped up big time,” he said.

Indeed, few in law enforcement expected the show of community force that was displayed about 4 p.m. yesterday under the red, white and blue awning of the Villa Tapia convenience store at Front and Clearfield streets.

That’s where, police said, an angry mob confronted Carrasquillo. Many residents who applauded the attackers crowded into the store last night to watch a surveillance tape of the beating.

Kris Torres and Louis Rodriguez, two neighborhood kids, said they spotted Carrasquillo wearing a gray T-shirt, dark jeans and carrying a black trash bag.

“Aren’t you the guy who raped the little girl?” Torres said he asked.

Carrasquillo told Torres that he wasn’t the rapist and claimed he had daughters of his own.

“No, I’m not having it,” Torres said he replied.

Punches were thrown and a mob beating ensued.

“Everyone in the neighborhood were looking for him,” Torres said. “Everyone came together. We feel as though we did a good thing.”

Rodriguez added: “We held him down to make sure he didn’t go anywhere.”

Patrol cops who were in the area looking for Carrasquillo happened upon the scene and intervened, said Deputy Police Commissioner Thomas Wright.

The attack “never should have happened,” Wright added.

Seven years ago, at age 19, Jose Carrasquillo was accused of trying to rape a woman in Kensington, just a half block from the day-care center.

Ramsey said that the 2002 case was one of 17 arrests that litter Carrasquillo’s adult criminal record.

BrooklynGal · (#2 (**permalink**))

PART II

'Person of interest' held in child-rape case

By Allison Steele and Robert Moran
Inquirer Staff Writers

The man sought in connection with the rape of an 11-year-old girl this week was arrested late yesterday after residents in Kensington noticed him on the street and beat him before police arrived.

Jose Carrasquillo, 26, was spotted near Front and Clearfield Streets yesterday afternoon, less than two miles from the backyard where the girl's assault took place Monday morning - and only a few hours after police released his name and photograph to the public and termed him a "person of interest."

The angry crowd quickly swarmed Carrasquillo and began pummeling him, police said, and one person apparently used a wooden board.

After police arrived, Carrasquillo was taken to Temple University Hospital with head injuries, said Lt. Frank Vanore. He was expected to recover.

Police said Carrasquillo, who was arrested on a bench warrant in a previous case, was likely to be charged in the rape.

Police found physical evidence in the yard where the girl was attacked that links Carrasquillo to the assault, Capt. John Darby of the Special Victims Unit said yesterday. He declined to elaborate but added: "We know he was at the scene."

Last night, people in Kensington described how Carrasquillo was taken down.

Carrasquillo was seen by residents walking west on Clearfield toward Front about 3:15 p.m. A block before Front, at Lee Street, several males, including at least two teens, confronted the suspect.

"Hey, yo! You raped this girl," one of the teens told the suspect, according to Kris Torres, 16, who was part of the group of three or four. The suspect denied it.

"No. I have a daughter myself," said Carrasquillo, according to Torres.

But the neighborhood was convinced he was the suspect because detectives came to the area in the morning showing a photograph to residents. Torres said the teens, including himself, started hitting the suspect.

"We just pounded on him because we wanted him arrested," Torres said.

The suspect, however, continued to deny he was the attacker, said Louis Rodriguez, 16, who said he also was involved in the beat-down. "Stop! It wasn't me," the man yelled, according to Rodriguez.

The suspect tried to walk away but was knocked down along the side of a corner store at Front and Clearfield Streets.

A large crowd then gathered and urged the teens to pummel the suspect. The beating was captured on videotape by an outside security camera just down the street.

"I was saying, 'He wants to rape babies? Kill him!' " said Linda Steeves, 38, who saw the drama unfold from her porch on Lee Street. "Everybody was applauding."

The suspect was known in the area because he lived nearby on Wishart Street, residents said.

They said that on Monday evening, he was sitting on some steps drinking a beer - the same steps where he was beaten yesterday.

"The community took justice into their own hands," Steeves said. "The community wanted a piece of that man."

The suspect was saved when a police car stopped and officers took him into custody. The suspect continued to proclaim his innocence as he sat in the police car, witnesses said.

News of the rape on Monday also sparked outrage among law enforcement officers. The girl, who had been on her way to school, was forced to walk with her assailant down several crowded blocks in broad daylight, then endured what authorities called a "sadistic" attack.

The Fraternal Order of Police posted a $10,000 reward in the case, and police distributed fliers bearing Carrasquillo's face to residents and members of the news media.

"This was a particularly heinous crime," Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said before the arrest was made. "This person needs to come off our streets as soon as possible."

"Everybody took this case personally," Vanore said yesterday. "A lot of officers have children that age, and a lot of people in this area have children that age."

Carrasquillo has a history of drug charges and other offenses, according to court records, and at least 12 convictions. He has pleaded guilty to manufacturing drugs, driving under the influence, and simple assault. He was charged with attempted rape and aggravated assault in 2002, according to court records, but those charges were later withdrawn.

Carrasquillo, who has several addresses in Kensington and North Philadelphia, served five years in prison on drug charges, according to the Pennsylvania parole board, the maximum sentence possible. Carrasquillo was denied parole after serving the first two years of his sentence because he had not received positive recommendations from his jail supervisors, said Leo Dunn, spokesman for the board.

Carrasquillo was arrested on drug-possession charges in September, five months after his release and while he was still on probation. He is scheduled to appear for trial next month.

The attack happened sometime after 8:20 Monday morning. The girl was walking along the 3000 block of Kensington Avenue with a younger sibling, whom she dropped off at day care before continuing to school.

That stretch of Kensington Avenue, which runs underneath the El, is busy and lined with storefronts, restaurants, and other businesses. In the mornings, it is bustling with parents taking their children to school.

Near Orleans Street, the girl was approached by a man who threatened to shoot her if she didn't do what he asked, police said. He never displayed a gun, but walked with the girl for six or seven blocks until they turned off Kensington Avenue onto Westmoreland Street. When they arrived outside a house on the 2000 block of East Westmoreland, the man raped her repeatedly behind the dwelling, Darby said.

He then left, and the victim made her way to nearby Cornwall Street, where a passerby found her shortly before 10 a.m. and called 911.

The girl was taken to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, where she underwent surgery for severe injuries sustained in the attack, police said. She was in stable condition last night.

At Russell H. Conwell Middle School, where the girl is a student, extra security was in place yesterday morning and afternoon, said Fernando Gallard, a school district spokesman. Counseling was offered to students and staff.

Gallard was relieved to hear of the arrest. "We're hoping this is the individual," he said. "That would be great news for all of us."

Prince Hakeem · (#3 (**permalink**))

Jose Carrasquillo's older brother, Alex, 28, speaking as if his brother is guilty, said that the attack was "wrong" but that it was the result of a years-long drug habit.

"Everybody knows him to be a good dude. He got a drug problem," he said yesterday afternoon from his home on Wishart Street near Howard, a few blocks from where Jose Carrasquillo was attacked and arrested. "If he wasn't messed up, he never would have done it. You can't only blame it on him."

Jose Carrasquillo's aunt Tammy Rhodes, who'd seen Carrasquillo the day before the girl was attacked, said Carrasquillo's behavior spiraled down after the death of his mother in 1999, and then his grandmother two years ago. "He was miserable. He wasn't working," she said.

Things like this piss me off. Whenever you get some serial rapist/murderer, the first thing you hear from some wotliss relative is "my Johnny is really a good boy".

When someone rapes children then I stop giving a rat's ass about whatever tragedies they had from way back when.

The only fault of the vigilantes was that they didn't tie him up and burn him like the trash he is.

DtotheJ · (#4 (**permalink**))

stab him in the heart

BrooklynGal · (#5 (**permalink**))

This is what I love about living in the hood sometimes.

Folks don't take no mess. Those young teenagers spotted that cat and beat his ass down. I hope they get that $10,000 dollar reward and get special recognition from the city.

As for the rapist's family, they need to sit their ass down. How the hell do 'problems' lead a man to rape a child??

Last week, the Saudi Arabians beheaded a guy who had abducted a young boy and sodomized him, then killed the boy's father when the man came to rescue his child.

Those Saudis beheaded that fool in public, sewed his head back on and crucified him on a tree, and let him hang there as a deterrent to any aspiring criminal.That's some cold sh*t...

And now Amnesty International are running their mouths about it being inhuman because the man had been previously arrested on homosexuality charges. So they're putting a 'homophibic' spin on the issue.

Yo, you mess with a child, you pay.

Applause for the Philly and Saudi folks.

DtotheJ · (#6 (**permalink**))

people who do that...can't be rehabilitated

family should have poisoned his food......

DtotheJ · (#7 (**permalink**))

and in philly, trust me...no aclu types are gonna go down there and talk about how his "rights" were violated .....

Prince Hakeem · (#8 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by BrooklynGal

Last week, the Saudi Arabians beheaded a guy who had abducted a young boy and sodomized him, then killed the boy's father when the man came to rescue his child.

Those Saudis beheaded that fool in public, sewed his head back on and crucified him on a tree, and let him hang there as a deterrent to any aspiring criminal.That's some cold sh*t...

And now Amnesty International are running their mouths about it being inhuman because the man had been previously arrested on homosexuality charges. So they're putting a 'homophibic' spin on the issue.

Yo, you mess with a child, you pay.

Applause for the Philly and Saudi folks.

For real, not that I care anything about Saudi Arabia, but I like the way some of these other countries deal with these wastes of oxygen. Some people (if you can even call them that) should simply be disposed of. End of story.

BrooklynGal · (#9 (**permalink**))

I'm with you PH and D.

Over here, they used to have a show called 'Dateline: To Catch a Predator' that you should check on Youtube.

The sorriest thing was seeing all the 'upright citizens' who'd get caught trying to sexually abuse young girls and boys. And the kind of sick, sick stuff they'd want to do to those kids. Once, I remember they caught an Indian guy from Trinidad who walked into the house NAKED and wanted a 12 yr old girl to have sex with a cat.

The most interesting thing was that like 50% of the pedophiles were Indians, mostly in the IT industry. And of course, the rest were white men - military personnel, doctors, rabbis, lawyers, teachers...

I think I only saw like two brothers on that show and one of them was Ethiopian.

Then a bunch on Latinos.

Man, it is just sick.

Also, back when I taught high school, I was real cautious about hooking my kids up with some of the brothers that wanted to 'mentor' them. Some of those older men just gave off a real weird sexual vibe. Years later, I came to find out that a lot of Black men who are on the downlow would get into mentoring programs so they could rape young Black boys.

It's sickening and yet another reason why I don't believe in all that blind 'Black Unity' nonsense. Sometimes your biggest enemy is the 'brother' standing next to you.

I'm with you though about countries that don't take that mess.

Kunjufu · (#10 (**permalink**))

The mob beat the wrong person, they should have given an Azz whupping to the fool trying to defend the rapist, its people like this that allow rapist to prosecute thier crimes....

People like this and 'The Call' need to STOP making excuses for people just because they atre BLACK!!!

DtotheJ · (#11 (**permalink**))

BG

some of the people caught on the predator series actually said that they had watched previous episodes..but went ahead and went to " a kid's house" anyway...

some homeland security big wig got caught a few years back....

just poison them......why ever let them out?

you've got to look back and be thankful when you think of all the times as a kid you could have been vulnerable to stuff like that..

yo, we did cub scouts, summer camp, sports teams... scary to think about it now.....

Kunjufu · (#12 (**permalink**))

Its an interesting thought comparing the old days to now..is it that there is more peadophilles now, or were people more adept at getting away with such nastiness?

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BG

some of the people caught on the predator series actually said that they had watched previous episodes..but went ahead and went to " a kid's house" anyway...

some homeland security big wig got caught a few years back....

just poison them......why ever let them out?

you've got to look back and be thankful when you think of all the times as a kid you could have been vulnerable to stuff like that..

yo, we did cub scouts, summer camp, sports teams... scary to think about it now.....

BrooklynGal · (#13 (**permalink**))

D,

I was a girl scout too and back in the late seventies when I was five years old, my folks put my siblings and I on the bus to South Carolina by ourselves. We were going down to spend time with relatives.

Today, that would be unthinkable.

Kunjufu,

Sometimes I think like 1988, something happened in the world and the Devil came out of hiding. Because seriously, back when we were kids, we played outside, we had sleepovers, we could be anywhere in the city, just as long as we made it home before the streetlights came on.

I used to walk to school when I was 6 years old by myself, or take the bus and nobody was worried about me. My folks just gave me a token and lunch money and it was a wrap.

Now you can't even let your kids out into your own backyard.

Kunjufu · (#14 (**permalink**))

BG..Well I've got to agree with you in my childhood I lost count of the number things we did that would horrify me now if my children were to do that today.... I think personally thats it's a really pity that the children now will probably never experiences the risk we were allowed to be exposed to as children....and i think the world will be the poorer for it..

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Kunjufu,

Sometimes I think like 1988, something happened in the world and the Devil came out of hiding. Because seriously, back when we were kids, we played outside, we had sleepovers, we could be anywhere in the city, just as long as we made it home before the streetlights came on.

I used to walk to school when I was 6 years old by myself, or take the bus and nobody was worried about me. My folks just gave me a token and lunch money and it was a wrap.

Now you can't even let your kids out into your own backyard.

BrooklynGal · (#15 (**permalink**))

Exactly.

But I also think that because society wasn't as hypersexualized back then as it is now, either we just couldn't tell who was a sex fiend, or maybe, there just wasn't enough deviant sex out there to push potential sex fiends into the act.

I am truly stunned sometimes, when i read about all these people they capture in worldwide stings who belong to child molesting rings.

Also, I think that there was a clearer moral line back then, and more people than not would stay on the right side of it.

But as times go by, boundaries get pushed.

Back then, there was no way in hell you could claim a 'right' to be all sorts of stuff.

Now, you could get twelve sex changes, marry an animal, grow artificial horns and google a search and find 200 other people just like you.

But I think what happened is the hypersexualization of society followed by a total erasure of any societal moral code.

Prince Hakeem · (#16 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by BrooklynGal

Also, I think that there was a clearer moral line back then, and more people than not would stay on the right side of it.

But as times go by, boundaries get pushed.

Back then, there was no way in hell you could claim a 'right' to be all sorts of stuff.

Now, you could get twelve sex changes, marry an animal, grow artificial horns and google a search and find 200 other people just like you.

But I think what happened is the hypersexualization of society followed by a total erasure of any societal moral code.

For real, but the one thing I've noticed is more and more BLACK people agreeing to this kind of nastiness.

Kunjufu · (#17 (**permalink**))

You see now you're gonna get me started on the blurred bounderies created by the minority who want to make everyone regardless of consequences EQUAL.... Now whilst i have no passionate hatred for Homosexuals, I do not agree that that it is right to equate gay marriage to that of man and woman... Lets be clear of course i support gay couples having legal rights in a committed relationship...

But i reject the notion that suddenly gay marriage is supposed to be asnaturally as traditional families... Its clearly not and its a false pretence to pretend as if it is...

I disagree with all this nonsense about people now trying extend the logic created to justify gay people, to now saying that i was born in the WRONG body.. NO you weren't you're confused, possibly mentally unwell...

We cannot and should not be rushing into an everything so long as i feel its ok goes society, it is creating the moral vacuum we are seeing today, the breakdown of individual and colective responsiblity.... Now everyone looks to find an excuse, any excuse to justify morally bankrupt behaviours...

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Originally Posted by BrooklynGal

Exactly.

But I also think that because society wasn't as hypersexualized back then as it is now, either we just couldn't tell who was a sex fiend, or maybe, there just wasn't enough deviant sex out there to push potential sex fiends into the act.

I am truly stunned sometimes, when i read about all these people they capture in worldwide stings who belong to child molesting rings.

Also, I think that there was a clearer moral line back then, and more people than not would stay on the right side of it.

But as times go by, boundaries get pushed.

Back then, there was no way in hell you could claim a 'right' to be all sorts of stuff.

Now, you could get twelve sex changes, marry an animal, grow artificial horns and google a search and find 200 other people just like you.

But I think what happened is the hypersexualization of society followed by a total erasure of any societal moral code.

BrooklynGal · (#18 (**permalink**))

@PH,

Hence my saying that I don't believe in that Black Unity nonsense.

My problem isn't so much that some Black people are messed up and living immorally. My problem is when they want to be around me and convince me I'm the 'uneducated' one instead of creating their own little community and doing that stuff over there.

I hate - with a passion - Black people who try to convince me that their illnesses are 'normal' or that if some transvestite aggressively hits on a straight Black man, the straight brother is wrong and hateful for punching the sucka out.

Some Black people are full of it.

---

Kunjufu,

I hear you and co-sign 100%.

I couldn't care less about political correctness. Like my daddy told my brothers, "I will kill you if you walk in this house with a dress on." "Or if you bring home a white woman."

I used to be mad as hell about the way so many Black folks are sliding, till I realised that I'm lucky that there's many hardcore Black people who won't break and fall for the sickness.

It's better to know who your enemy is than to live blindly.

I don't even sweat foolish Black people anymore.

DtotheJ · (#19 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Kunjufu

Its an interesting thought comparing the old days to now..is it that there is more peadophilles now, or were people more adept at getting away with such nastiness?

I don't think there are any more sickos out there than before....

the victims back then just didn't talk about it, and as a result these subhuman types got away with it.

I remember watching an episode of "Diff'rent Strokes" as a kid that was about this weirdo who was targeting arnold and dudley. Shi t didn't register with me what the show was about until years later.

when those priests were getting tried years ago and all those adults and middle aged folks came out of the woodworks revealing they were victims , it made it clear that behind closed doors this type of sick stuff was always happening.

BigSpartan · (#20 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by BrooklynGal

I'm with you PH and D.

Over here, they used to have a show called 'Dateline: To Catch a Predator' that you should check on Youtube.

The sorriest thing was seeing all the 'upright citizens' who'd get caught trying to sexually abuse young girls and boys. And the kind of sick, sick stuff they'd want to do to those kids. Once, I remember they caught an Indian guy from Trinidad who walked into the house NAKED and wanted a 12 yr old girl to have sex with a cat.

The most interesting thing was that like 50% of the pedophiles were Indians, mostly in the IT industry. And of course, the rest were white men - military personnel, doctors, rabbis, lawyers, teachers...

I think I only saw like two brothers on that show and one of them was Ethiopian.

Then a bunch on Latinos.

Man, it is just sick.

Also, back when I taught high school, I was real cautious about hooking my kids up with some of the brothers that wanted to 'mentor' them. Some of those older men just gave off a real weird sexual vibe. Years later, I came to find out that a lot of Black men who are on the downlow would get into mentoring programs so they could rape young Black boys.

It's sickening and yet another reason why I don't believe in all that blind 'Black Unity' nonsense. Sometimes your biggest enemy is the 'brother' standing next to you.

I'm with you though about countries that don't take that mess.

I counted three black guys, a shame they canceled that show I am positive they would have outted more of these perverted assholes.

I am so happy the DA and officers didn't charge the people for whooping that man's ass, sometimes I think this needs to happen more often because the justice system seems to be so messed up. Sometimes justice looks to be served but then other times you're going 'What the hell just happened here!?!?!'. But yea...

that they caught the ******* and he got a beatdown...I know one thing for sure when he gets in general population they are going to give him hell.