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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:23 am
By TAMARA CHERRY
The Toronto Sun
TORONTO -- A fourth person has been charged in the confinement, torture and sexual assault of a mentally disabled man who was held for weeks before being found near death in a Hamilton apartment, police said yesterday.
"I've been on (the job) for 32 years and worked in a lot of different areas, and this is certainly one of the most disgusting and disturbing incidents that I've ever seen," said Hamilton Police Supt. Bill Stewart.
The 22-year-old victim was lured to an Aurora St. apartment, near Clarence Access and Charlton Ave. E., by at least one "casual acquaintance," Stewart said.
"He was held there for at least three weeks against his will. During that time, he was beaten and burned (and) suffered a fractured skull. He had injuries and burns to many parts of his body," he said. "He was bound at different times of the ordeal."
Police initially charged three men -- Stanley Brown, 30, Nathaniel Jug, 22, and Dakota Thompson, 20 -- with aggravated assault and forcible confinement.
AGGRAVATED SEX ASSAULT
On Tuesday, a 17-year-old, who can't be named, was added to the list of those facing charges.
Police also laid charges of aggravated sexual assault, robbery and threatening death against the accused.
Investigators alleged the victim's captors called police to the apartment building about an attempted break-in to one of the units last Saturday. Officers were "shocked" to find the victim nearly dead inside, Stewart said.
"The officers were told by a doctor that had he not been taken to hospital and received treatment, that there was a good likelihood that he could have succumbed to his injuries within the next couple days," he said.
Stewart struggled when asked about a motive for the alleged ordeal.
"They forced the victim to turn over bank information and did withdraw money from his account, but a lot of the things they did to the accused were not robbery related. They just beat and tortured him for who knows what reasons," he said.
The victim lives alone in Hamilton, Stewart said, adding that the man's mother lives out of town. The victim was recovering in hospital yesterday.
Using the 'same priciple' that several others voiced on another thread a while back about a Cop who stopped a car in Ontario for a perceived traffic violation, but instead found a shipment of drugs; the charges were tossed because the Cop didn't have any reason to believe that the occupants of the car were transporting illeagal substances; I wonder if those very same people think all the charges against the accused in this situation should also be 'tossed', because the Cops who discovered the victim of this horrendous crime had no reason to believe that a kidnapping, robbery, torture, and sexual assault was being perpetrated at this address at the time that they were there to investigate a possible break and enter to one of the units???
It would be very interesting to hear 'their views' on this one!
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