Miami boys, 12 and 13, charged as adults in 12-year-old girl’s rape in Overtown
Two boys, ages 12 and 13, were charged by a grand jury this week as adults in the brutal rape of a 12-year-old girl in the garden area of a Miami apartment complex over the summer.
Both boys were booked into Metro West Detention Center Thursday on charges including sexual battery with serious injury, false imprisonment and kidnapping.
The attack happened around 10 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, in the garden area of the Green Haven Project community at 1160 NW Second Ave., according to the boys’ arrest report. The Miami Herald is not naming the defendants due to their ages.
The girl told Miami police Special Victims Unit detectives that the 13-year-old grabbed her as she left her friend’s house and took her to a couch in the garden. There the 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy held her arms and legs down to prevent her from escaping, according to the report.
The 13-year-old then began raping her while the 12-year-old stuffed rocks in her mouth to try to stop her from screaming, detectives said in the report.
The horrifying ordeal lasted about 30 minutes, the girl told police, only ending after the boys ran away when they heard the victim’s father calling out her name in the distance, according to the report.
A witness, who’s a neighbor of the girl, and her father were the first to report the incident to police, the report states. The witness flagged down officers the next day and told them she thinks the girl was raped. She said that between 10 and 10:30 p.m., she was picking up her mail and heard a girl screaming, “Stop. I’m not playing. I’m not playing,” according to the report.
The woman then yelled out into the distance, “Who’s screaming?” she told detectives. She then saw her neighbor, the girl’s father, yelling out for his daughter, the report states.
There was another boy who was with the group, but police say he did not participate in the attack. He told detectives he did not intervene because he “was afraid of getting beat up,” the report states.
On June 20, as detectives were interviewing the girl, the 13-year-old boy returned to the complex on his bike. The girl identified him, and police took him into custody, the report states.
Detectives arrested the 12-year-old as he was leaving his apartment at Green Haven, the report states.
The 15-year-old has not been charged as an adult, according to court records. It was not immediately clear what his charges are. The grand jury report for the other boys was filed Wednesday, records show.
Both the 12-year-old and 13-year-old were being held without bond on Friday, according to jail records.
Their attorney declined to comment Friday afternoon.
