DVD's Show Sexual Assault Of Handicapped Women
By: Ray Doughty
Updated: January 7, 2011
A disturbing discovery as a bag of DVD's showing almost 100 hours of videotaped sexual assaults on handicapped woman is left at a police station in Los Angeles. Now authorities say they are searching for at least 10 different suspects depicted in the video.
The grainy screen shots became composite drawings as special victims bureau detectives hopes someone recognizes one of these men. Detective Ron Anderson had to watch nearly 100 hours of videos showing sexual assaults against women who appear to be severely disabled.
Det. Ron Anderson of the LA Special Victims Unit says "when this came to me this was really shocking. Because we're supposed to defend the defenseless and these people are truly defenseless. They can not fight off an attacker, they do not have the ability to consent to this type of activity."
Det. Dan Scott says "these victims are severely disabled, many of them appear unable to move. Most of them are wearing diapers."
One of the suspects also appears to be a paraplegic patient.
Det. Scott says "we have up to 10 suspects. We're only able to identify or get clear images on about four that you see here today."
Detectives say the images came to them anonymously with a note from someone who says he got a computer from a man who wanted the hard drive wiped.
Det. Scott says "he asked if he could clean the hard drive of a computer. That there were disturbing images. The informant took that computer, cleaned the hard drive. But, before he cleaned it completely he made DVD's of all those images and brought it to the sheriff's department and that's pretty much what the note says."
