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Boy, 13, raped and left naked near Tidwell Park, family says
Updated: 7:04 PM, November 14, 2019
HOUSTON - Houston police are looking for a rapist after a 13-year-old boy was found naked, beat up and robbed near Tidwell Park.
"The last thing he remembers is [his attacker] grabbing a big stick to hit him," the victim's mother said in Spanish. "He remembers perfectly who did it."
The sixth grader skipped school Monday and was hanging out near his apartment complex when he was approached by an African-American man in his 20s, his family says.
"He tried to drink with him, smoke with him and get him to buy stuff at a store," said the boy's mother, who did not want to be identified.
The man eventually took the boy's phone and then started beating and sexually assaulting him, according to the mother.
"He could barely remember anything," his mother said. "He was in shock. He's just starting to remember things."
The teenager spent Monday night, Tuesday and most of Wednesday at a nearby hospital.
"He doesn't want to talk at all. He doesn't want to look at anybody," his uncle said. "His life is destroyed."
Boy, 13, raped and left naked near Tidwell Park, family says
Updated: 7:04 PM, November 14, 2019
HOUSTON - Houston police are looking for a rapist after a 13-year-old boy was found naked, beat up and robbed near Tidwell Park.
"The last thing he remembers is [his attacker] grabbing a big stick to hit him," the victim's mother said in Spanish. "He remembers perfectly who did it."
The sixth grader skipped school Monday and was hanging out near his apartment complex when he was approached by an African-American man in his 20s, his family says.
"He tried to drink with him, smoke with him and get him to buy stuff at a store," said the boy's mother, who did not want to be identified.
The man eventually took the boy's phone and then started beating and sexually assaulting him, according to the mother.
"He could barely remember anything," his mother said. "He was in shock. He's just starting to remember things."
The teenager spent Monday night, Tuesday and most of Wednesday at a nearby hospital.
"He doesn't want to talk at all. He doesn't want to look at anybody," his uncle said. "His life is destroyed."