17-Year-Old Boy Who Allegedly Raped 9-Month-Old Will Be Tried as an Adult
James Wamsley, of Richland, Wash., Has a Trial Date of July 23
As of yesterday, Wamsley has been in the Benton County jail. Prior to being moved he was located in the Benton Franklin Juvenile Justice Center.
According to court records, Wamsley had been baby-sitting the baby as well as a 3-year-old on Monday for over 8 hours. The mother of the children had gone out to a barbecue. When she returned home, she noticed something wrong with the baby and called the paramedics immediately. The call to the paramedics was made around 11:30 p.m., the Herald reported.
Paramedics arrived shortly and took the baby to Kadlec Medical Center. The baby, whose name will not be released, was treated for severe injuries from a sexual assault. According to Captain Mike Cobb of the Richland Police Department, the baby was moved to a hospital located in the Spokane area. Unfortunately due to privacy laws, the condition on the baby is unavailable until further notice.
The National Incident Based Reporting System is a system that collects data that is based on reports from law enforcements agencies in 12 states and is based on sexual assault, especially sexual assault in small children.
It covers four categories, forcible rape, forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and forcible fondling. The data collected is unimaginable, but factual. 67 percent of all victims of sexual assault are under the age of 18. 34 percent of all victims are under the age of 12. One of every seven victims of sexual assault that is reported to authorities were under the age of six. 40 percent of the offenders who victimized the children that were under the age of six were under the age of 18 themselves as stated from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Prosecutors who had been in juvenile court Wednesday for Wamsley called the incident "horrific" and "unfathomable" as reported by KEPRTV.
SOURCE : Charged as an adult - William Pitts - KEPRTV
SOURCE : Teen Will be tried as adult in Benton County rape case - Nathan Isaacs - Herald
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31 Comments
Post a CommentThat 17 year old needs psychological evaluation- seriously. No sound mind would do this to a child, let alone a baby. He needs help. The baby should recover and hopefully have no recollection of the incidence over time.
That's actually kind of hot.
Omgee I Hope Tht Poor Little Baby Is Okay.!
If that was my child, i probably would have killed him myself-if the police din catch him before i did.
I have a 7year old boy and remembering his little body as an 8 month old-i can't imagine how it's possible to rape a 8 month old baby boy.
This thought alone is what drives me crazy, probably to the point of temporary insanity!rane
fkn dumbass people. who would believe in that kind of myth :s . thats dumb
he should be in jail 4 tha res of his life
man this sick they should sentence him to death for all they no he could have killed the baby
That is simply sickening. I hope he gets what he deserves.
I know plenty of people who have been falsely accused or wrongly convicted, but there is physical evidence that this child, UNDER HIS CARE, was violated. If someone else did it, he was negligent at least. Disturbing at any age, though.
who do you think did it then, Todd? The 3yo