2 teens charged in beating of woman
CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities say two teenagers hid overnight in a disabled woman’s house in hopes of stealing the family’s car. Instead, they clubbed and kicked the woman and shaved her head after her mother left the next morning, ignoring pleas from the disabled woman — who had undergone brain surgery — not to hit her in the head, investigators said.
The teenage boy and girl were arraigned Monday on one count each of juvenile delinquency charges by reason of 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.
Cheyenne Blanton, 17, and Joseph Nagle, 16, both of Hamilton, are accused of physically abusing Ashley Clark, 18, for more than six hours Friday at her home in Hanover Township in Butler County, about 35 miles northwest of Cincinnati.
“This is one of the worst crimes I’ve ever seen,” Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said Monday. “They are sick animals, apparently just doing this for kicks and no other reason.”
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.