Ruskin is pulling together for one of its own, a teenage girl severely beaten and unable to walk, breathe or swallow on her own. ...more

August 12, 2008

Some knew her as a friend, most did not, but they came by the hundreds anyway tonight in Ruskin to help a teenage rape victim. ...more

August 11, 2008

The community of Ruskin is pulling together for one of its own, a teenage girl who was severely beaten and now is blind and unable to walk, breathe or swallow on her own. ...more

August 11, 2008

More than three months have passed since the vicious attack and rape of an East Bay High senior at the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. ...more

August 6, 2008

More than three months have passed since the vicious attack and rape of an East Bay High senior at the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. ...more

August 6, 2008

The 18-year-old victim of a brutal beating and rape attack three months ago, who remains incapacitated and in long-term rehabilitation, has gotten some help from the state. The family of the teen had received a letter from the insurance company that said the teen had to be moved from her current rehabilitation facility to another. The family and the teen's doctors disputed the insurer's decision, and the state stepped in. ...more

August 1, 2008

In the hours before a young woman was raped and beaten outside Bloomingdale Regional Public Library in April, library staff members saw the 16-year-old suspect spend hours playing video games in the children's section and hanging out on the front benches outside after the library closed for the night. ...more

June 25, 2008

TAMPA - Additional investigative reports concerning the young woman deputies say was raped outside Bloomingdale Regional Public Library in April were released by a court today. ...more

June 24, 2008

The e-mail all week and the comments on the blog have continued to focus on the recent column on the young woman lying in a hospital bed, the victim of a horrific beating and rape outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. The event itself was awful enough, but I think it is that sense of abandonment - true or untrue - that has stirred so many of you. Here are just a few of your thoughts. ...more

June 16, 2008

Maybe I used to be better at it than I am now. I was standing there, a few feet from the hospital bed, and my emotions were churning while I was trying to sound confident and ask semi-intelligent questions at the same time. ...more

June 9, 2008