Ohio: Teens accused of beating disabled woman

**Illiy** · 02-27-08, 06:52 PM

By LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press Writer
> Tue Feb 26, 3:37 AM ET
>
> CINCINNATI - Two teenagers hid overnight in a house and spent more
> than six hours torturing a disabled woman after her mother left in
> the morning, authorities said.
>
> Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said the teenage boy and girl
> tied up the 18-year-old woman, clubbed her, kicked her, shaved her
> head and soaked her with water before making her walk barefoot
> outside in the snow.
>
> They also ignored pleas from the woman, who had undergone brain
> surgery, not to hit her in the head, investigators said.
>
> "This is one of the worst crimes I've ever seen," Jones said
> Monday. "They are sick animals, apparently just doing this for
kicks
> and no other reason."
>
> Cheyenne Blanton, 17, and Joseph Nagle, 16, both of Hamilton, were
> arraigned Monday on juvenile delinquency charges that include
> aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, felonious
> assault and vandalism, according to juvenile court officials.
>
> They were ordered held in the county's juvenile detention center
> pending a court appearance later this week. Neither entered a plea,
> and both requested court-appointed attorneys. Those attorneys had
not
> been named Monday.
>
> The teens are accused of physically abusing Ashley Clark, 18, for
> more than six hours Friday at her home in Hanover Township, about
35
> miles northwest of Cincinnati.
>
> Both Jones and the woman's mother, Sheila Clark, want the teenagers
> tried as adults, and Jones said the two could get 75 years to life
in
> prison if tried and convicted as adults.
>
> "I want full justice for my daughter," Clark said Monday. "Those
two
> never need to walk the streets again."
>
> Clark would not comment on details of the case or provide specifics
> on her daughter's disabilities or injuries, other than to say that
> her daughter was doing as well as possible.
>
> "I can't understand how anyone could do this to anyone, but
> especially to someone with such a beautiful, loving heart," Sheila
> Clark said.
>
> Messages seeking comment on whether adult charges would be pursued
> were left at the prosecutor's office Monday. There was no answer at
> telephone listing for a Joseph Nagel in Hamilton. There was no
> listing for Cheyenne Blanton.
>
> Jones said the teenagers hid overnight in the basement of the Clark
> home, intending to steal the car and leave town before an upcoming
> juvenile court appearance date for one of the suspects.
>
> They apparently missed their chance to get the car when Sheila
Clark
> left the house in it Friday morning, and they went into the kitchen
> to get something to eat before going upstairs and waking her
> daughter, Jones said. The pair then spent the next six to eight
hours
> torturing Ashley Clark, he said.
>
> The mother realized something had happened when she came home, saw
> the house ransacked and called 911. A neighbor also called the
> sheriff's department to report two juveniles in the neighbor's
yard.
>
> Detectives apprehended the teenagers a few minutes later in nearby
> woods after following their footprints in the snow, Jones said.
>

**Flapjack794** · 02-27-08, 07:14 PM

Take them mutha****** and do the same to them.....an eye for an eye.. thats bullshit.....

**Lazy Fed** · 02-27-08, 07:23 PM

I hope they are tried and convicted as adults....

**10-42Adam** · 02-28-08, 12:55 AM

Lock them up for life, they're obviously sick in the head. Better yet, give me two bullets and a gun and I'll save the state a lot of money. Those two low-life's don't even deserve to breath the same air as I.