A nine-year-old boy accused of r@ping and brutally attacking a five-year-old girl had been allowed to return home despite the devastated victim’s mother’s pleas.
The boy, who has not been identified due to his age, appeared in Juvenile Court in Ohio on Thursday, Nov. 13, when he denied the allegations against him, as his attorney requested a competency evaluation and for him to be sent home, News 5 Cleveland reports.
The child, who was seen wearing a face mask, a green Batman hoodie and black pants, was originally supposed to appear in court the week prior, but did not show up, prompting Judge Kristen Sweeney to threaten a warrant if he did not appear on Thursday.
He stayed quiet when he finally appeared on Thursday as prosecutors outlined the charges against him in connection with the September attack.
“This case results in a five-year-old being left n@ked, b£aten and urinated upon in a field and left for hours,” prosecutors argued at the hearing, according to WOIO.
“At a very minimum, the State is requesting home detention with an ankle monitor.”
But the young victim’s mother argued that the child does not even deserve to go home, arguing that he learned his bad behavior there.
“I do not believe that these kids should be able to return home,” Antavia Kennibrew said of the boy and a 10-year-old girl who is an alleged co-conspirator.
“Their behavior that caused them to do something so evil obviously started at home.”
These kids being at home doesn’t give them a chance to think about what they have done to my daughter,” she continued.
“Obviously they are not held accountable for anything.
“These kids did something horrible. They changed my daughter’s life, the way she talks, the way she acts, the way she thinks. They stole her innocence and it’s time for them to start facing the consequences of their actions, period.”
Kennibrew has previously claimed that the youngsters took her daughter “by her hand and walked her to a field that was far away from the residence.”
She said she then discovered her child severely injured and disfigured after she managed to leave a family member’s home in September.
“I found my daughter unresponsive, bloody with her hair pulled from her scalp, her body covered in bruises,” Kennibrew wrote on Facebook.
Her daughter had “signs of strangulation,” a “big lump on her head,” and appeared to have been beaten and r@ped.
“I couldn’t believe what I saw in front of me. My daughter did not look like herself. She was traumatized,” Kennibrew said.
Sweeney ultimately agreed to let the boy return home with an ankle monitor on Thursday, but had questions about his home life.
