Tonight there are two updates to the investigation into last week's sadistic anti-gay torture spree in New York City. The New York Police Department has made a 10th arrest after the brutal anti-gay gang assaults on a 30-year-old gay Bronx man and the two 17-year-old street gang recruits that had sex with him.
Twenty-two-year-old Jose Dominguez was arrested Tuesday and faces charges with assault, unlawful imprisonment and aggravated assault—all as hate crimes, which increase the penalties. On Monday, the NYPD collared its ninth suspect, Ruddy Vargas-Perez, who reneged on a promise made through a lawyer to turn himself in on Friday.
Prosecutors say the Bronx street gang members discovered two of their recruits were possibly gay or bisexual, so they brutally attacked and tortured the 17-year-olds, viciously beating and violently sodomizing them with a wooden plunger handle. One of the teen victims is speaking out about his ordeal. "They asked me 'are you gay?' I was like 'nah'," he tells ABC 7. "They was like 'you did this?' I said 'yea.' 'You did this with the gay guy?' I was like 'yea.' That's when they started hitting me. Like beating me up. I was there for like an hour."
The recruit says gang members told him not to take the gang assault "personally". And after the ordeal ... they told him that he could remain in the gang. Watch the interview AFTER THE JUMP ...
"Spared no mercy." Good! These idiots are going to learn to leave people alone.
Posted by: FREELEO | 12 October 2010 at 18:35
Wait a second, I'm confused. So they beat the gay gang members, tortured them and sodomized them but yet they told the recruits not to take it "personally" and they could stay in the gang? WTF?
Posted by: Fred | 12 October 2010 at 19:07
Fingers almost rendered too stiff to type WTF!!
Posted by: Honut Sinti | 12 October 2010 at 21:31
Sounds like this was an initiation of some sort. I feel like the victims will stay in the gang. SMH
Posted by: Trey | 13 October 2010 at 08:38
@ Trey, that was my thought exactly. Even if the gang members don't press charges. They still went after the 30 year old gay man and robbed his innocent brother of $1,000. These sadistic monsters will end up in prison regardless. I am just stunned that this could of been an initiation not because the victims were gay but because they had to do it in order to belong in a gang. I have no idea which one is worse than the other. Mind boggling.
Posted by: Fred | 13 October 2010 at 11:56
baby, gang-bangers are having sex in jails like rabbits. if you put that much violence in hurting others, means that you have tendencies yourself. it's a sick psychological outcome.
Posted by: jg, III | 13 October 2010 at 20:26
As I understand these two seventeen year old were joining a gang. Correct? which would terrorized the neighborhood and other neighborhoods. Correct? So why should I feel for these two young boys? However, I am sadden for the 30yr old he seemed like an innocent by-stander to me and my heart goes out to him. I'm just asking a question because I'm not feeling any sympathy for these two young boys. I feel angry at what happen but to whom it happen to and the circumstances at which it happen I'm not feeling it.
Posted by: G | 14 October 2010 at 16:31