How is it that we can treat an innocent victim like this? Someone needs to tell me the answer to this one. ...more

June 8, 2008

Detectives found blood on the library driveway, blood on a sidewalk near a set of benches, blood on a signpost outside the entrance and blood on the west wall of the building. ...more

June 7, 2008

TAMPA -- Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives found blood on a library driveway, blood on a sidewalk near a set of benches, blood on a sign post near the entrance and blood on the west wall of the library building. Ultimately, on the evening of April 24, they found blood on the ground near the spot where the family of an 18-year-old senior at East Bay High School found her unconscious and gasping. She had been raped. ...more

June 6, 2008

TAMPA - A teenage rape victim, attacked at Bloomingdale Regional Public Library in April, suffered a fracture to her forehead, a small fracture near the tip of her nose and suffered multiple strokes because she had been strangled, according to new court documents released today. ...more

June 6, 2008

A teenager, accused of rape, and his mother, accused of violating probation, appeared in court Tuesday morning before the same judge. ...more

May 21, 2008

TAMPA - A teenager -- accused of rape -- and his mother -- accused of violating probation -- appeared in court this morning before the same judge. ...more

May 20, 2008

TAMPA - In a brief hearing today, a juvenile court judge told a 16-year-old rape suspect that he will have to come back to court Friday because prosecutors have not yet filed adult charges against him. Friday marks the deadline when the State Attorney's Office must officially charge Kendrick Morris with the April 24 rape of an 18-year-old at Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. ...more

May 12, 2008

To get inside Bloomingdale Regional Public Library after 3 p.m. on any weekday, a patron has to navigate a throng of teenagers from adjacent Bloomingdale High School. ...more

May 5, 2008

Reading the headlines and watching TV news about the violent rape of an 18-year-old woman last week in Valrico ripped open decades-old pain for one area woman who said she suffered a similar attack. ...more

May 3, 2008

TAMPA - Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Steve White, who was previously in a relationship with rape suspect Kendrick Morris' mother, denied today in a letter from his attorney that he ever was married to the woman. ...more

May 2, 2008