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IiiFrom Page IJAILmates, has alleged that Hie black youths raped his clients for three days, until the boy was finally taken to the hospital.Thompson said he had a deputy lake the boy to the hospital and sent word tor the doc!or lo examine him fox sexual abuseThompson S3id that juveniles kepi in the county jail are checked two or three times a night and that while jailers “listen (or noises, we can’t observe the cells without people knowing we are coming.Judge Alderman asked Deputy Gary Holton if the youth reported any sexual attack when Holton took the boy to the hospital.“Yes. I went in the room and he was sitting on the table and was holding his stomach. He said the fellow?; m the block had bealen him and had sexually assaulted him.'’ Hof on slated.John Davis, a deputy sheriff who was filling in as a jailer the night the youth was taken to the hospital, was asked if the other while youth appeared to have been assaulted.“No sir. Davis responded “He just said he wanted to talk to the juvenile counselors.”DAVIS SAID the youth made lhal request before the olher boy was taken lo (he hospital.“He said be wanted to talk to the juvenile counselors because he wanted to be back home. He said he wanted to talk to them abuul gelling back home as soon as possible.” Davis told the courtAfter healing the testimony. Judge Alderman said that be would order n social investigation on five of the youths, but that he would withhold sentencing I wo other youths until other charges against them had been sell led incircuit court.The two youths with additional charees filed against them, who also pleaded guilty to assaulting the white youths, are Nathaniel King and Anthony Bennefield, both 15, accused of aggravated assault in the shooting of Jack Maughan on July 27.Judge Alderman noted that he had a lei ter from the doctor who examined the juvenile, but the judge declined to release information contained in the Idler.PIER$4,000. and that they are considering what to do about it.The old bridge, its pilings nearly rotted away (lien, partially collapsed in December of 1966, and was restored temporarily until the new 1350.000 Little Jim Bridge could be opened north of it in Aug. 1967.At that time, the decision was nude by the State Road Dept, and the county to take out the east section of the bridge and leave the west section as a fisliing pier.Hollis Crowell, who operatesthe Little Jim Fisliing Campadjacent lo the bridge, said;MI DON'T UKR to see il go down. It is a wonderful place for the old people to go and fish. They won’t have anv place like that to go if they tear it dewn. There they can pull up. walk out on the bridge, away from tralfie, and fish in comfort ’and safety Irent their chairs on the bridge.”His mother, Mrs. Ruth Eircig, 68. said that she and hex husband, Herbert, former owners of the fishing camp, fish from the old bridge nearly every night.“Some nights it e so crowded out there, you have to wait until someone leases lo get on. Evenpeople in wheelchairs can fishout (here, for sheep?head, trout, ard just any king of fish. We need it and 1 hope they keep it as a place where old people can fish in comfort.” she said.
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Fri, Aug 18, 1972
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