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Two Clarksville gang rapes in one week
At the Clarksville Police Department, detectives have two suspects
in the first rape, but not the second rape that happened this past
weekend.
Detectives say they don't believe the two incidents are connected.
The first victim who agreed to be on camera said she's left with
physical and emotional scars Police say they know who the two
men are, but cannot arrest them yet because they're waiting for
a warrant from a judge.
Forty seven-year-old Terry Burton, of New Albany, says two
weekends ago, she was at Jersey's Cafe in Clarksville, when a man
who knew her nephew asked for a ride home. Burton says she now
regrets driving him to his apartment on Greentree Boulevard and
using his bathroom. When she came out, two men were waiting in
the dark.
"They dragged me and they throw me on the couch. And one of them
was up there on top of me, and the other one was down there. While
the other one was in me, the other one was trying to force himself the
other way on me," said Burton.
Burton says the men told her they were raping her because her nephew
owed them money.
Then this past weekend, a 24-year-old Clarksville woman says she left
America's Best Sports Bar and Grill and went home with strangers.
The second victim says the two men brought her to an apartment
complex on Cambridge Boulevard, gave her two mixed drinks, then
raped her. But she says she can't remember which apartment unit they
took her to and really too many details about what they look like.
"My concern is, people have to use a little bit of common sense. I
mean, you don't go out to a bar and end up going home or going to
somebody's apartment, even out to a parking lot with guys that
you don't even know," said Detective Major Ed McCutcheon.
The detective says Burton's attackers are illegal Mexican
immigrants.
"I'm afraid, next time, if they do go for somebody else, the other
person might not be so lucky," said Burton.
Detective McCutcheon says reporting the illegal immigrants to
Immigration & Customs would be useless because they've already
got too many people to deport.
Meanwhile, police are waiting for labs to finish testing crucial evidence
in the two rapes.
