Men sentenced to probation for gang-rape of 13-year-old
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - There will be no jail time for two men involved in the brutal gang-rape of a 13-year-old girl.
Like two other defendants before them Tommy Williams, 20, and Clarence Williams, 19, each received a minimum of 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation, with a maximum of life on probation.
The family of the young victim was outraged after learning the sentence Tuesday.
"There was six of them and they gang-raped my granddaughter," said the girl's grandfather, who got in a shouting match with the Williams' family members and was forced to leave. He protested the plea bargain, angrily stating the men should do time.
The crime happened in late 2016 at the Stonebrook Terrance Apartments on the 4000 block of Tappan Drive. The child reported the crime to police six days before Christmas that year. She told investigators she knew one of the suspects, who invited her to the apartment to play video games.
She told investigators while at the apartment with a couple other female friends, she went to the bathroom and her friends left. At that time, arrest papers say two men pulled her out of the bathroom and reportedly forced her into the bedroom where the other suspects were waiting before the reported gang rape happened.
At a previous sentencing in February, the girl's grandmother detailed the horrifying crime, telling the courtroom the child was rotated around the bed "like a hand on a clock" during the rape.
Her grandmother told the courtroom Tuesday that after what happened, her granddaughter might never be able to have children.
Two more defendants are still set to be sentenced. One of the two is a minor.
According to the arrest papers, of the six arrested in the gang-rape, some are cousins and some are brothers.
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what judge did this?
and the judge still gave him probation
So he would have done it if she was of legal age??? What a piece of garbage! I'm just stunned
Should have read comments before commenting - that comment stuck out in my head as well ... WTF does that even mean "wouldn't have happened in the first place?"
Yep! Stuck out to me as well
This is sickening. This is how we protect our children in this country? This is outrageous. Both the District Attorney and thr Judge should be brought up on charges before the bar. If somoene had taken it into their own hands to rescue this child, they would probably be serving time for hurting the rapists. We are upside down these days it seems.
Wow! Why was a plea bargain even offered? The one defendant said if he had known she was a minor this would never have happened in the first place - WTF? So if she was of age it would not be rape?
Who raised the defendants? Do they not have a mother, grandmother, sisters?
Wow! these animals should be put down, after cutting their dicks off ... perhaps the prosecutor and judge that thought this plea was an acceptable punishment, should be put down as well?