Help Dunbar Village Gang Rape Victim Recover
What is Dunbar Village?
Dunbar Village is a 246-unit public housing apartment complex in the North Tamarind area of West Palm Beach, Florida. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Pleasant City and Northwest. The complex is commonly referred to as Dunbar. Built in the late 1940s, Dunbar Village is one of the first housing projects in the state of Florida. It was named for the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.
What Happened at Dunbar Village?
On June 18th, 2007, ten black male youths gang-raped a 35 year old woman for three hours and forced her to perform oral sex on her 12-year old son at gunpoint. The who was also beaten and doused with household chemicals. The young men not only viciously punched, kicked and sliced the woman and her son with glass objects, but they also blinded her boy by pouring nail polish remover into his eyes. In an effort to destroy evidence, they forced a bar of soap into the woman’s vagina.
The rapists forced the woman and son to lay naked in a bathtub together, and attempted to set them on fire (they could not find matches). The youths took cell phone pictures of their violent, immoral and sadistic acts. The violence continued for over three hours, and although the woman’s neighbors heard her screams, no one called the police or came to her aid. Even after the attack, no one came to their aid and the woman and her son had to walk a mile to a hospital before receiving any help, because the assailants stole her car, and threatened to kill her and her family if she told the authorities.
As of September 3, 2007 only four of the 10 rapists have been arrested for the crime, ranging in age from 14 to 18 and are currently being held without bail. The other six are still at large.
This woman and her young son have been through hell. St. Ann’s Church in West Palm Beach is helping the victim to recover. Please commit to this fundraising effort and provide the help she and her son never got that night.
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