Man hit girl with screwdriver, dragged her behind car [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 4:14 pm, Tuesday, March 20, 2018

OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man has admitted that he struck a 10-year-old girl with a screwdriver, dragged her behind a vehicle with a rope and forced hot sauce into her duct tape-covered mouth.

The Post-Standard reports that Shawn Whaley pleaded guilty to 13 charges on Monday in Oswego County.

Defense lawyer Sal Lanza said Whaley was "sincere" and "remorseful."

District Attorney Gregory Oakes says the "incredibly brave" child escaped from a home and ran for help last August in Albion.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/NY-man-admits-dragging-child-behind-vehicle-12767945.php

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Gary Bubis, 37, (left), Brandy Shaver, 18, (right) and Shawn Whaley, 23, (center), have all been
charged with second-degree assault. (Source: Oswego County Sheriff's Office)


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10-Year-Old Girl Beaten, Dragged by Car in NY; 4 Charged
Police say a 10-year-old central New York girl was beaten repeatedly and dragged behind a vehicle, and four people have been arrested.
Sept. 1, 2017, at 5:07 p.m.

ALBION, N.Y. (AP) — A 10-year-old girl who was beaten repeatedly, forced to run with heavy packs and dragged behind a car escaped her tormentors as they slept to ask a neighbor for help, police in central New York said Friday.

Four adults were charged after the bruised and malnourished girl escaped on Wednesday from her home in rural Oswego County, north of Syracuse. Her treatment, which included beatings with a tightly rolled newspaper wrapped with electrical tape, had apparently been getting worse since April, Oswego County Undersheriff Gene Sullivan said.

. . .

Sullivan said the girl was forced to work outside clearing brush without access to water or a bathroom. She was served a single meal a day, doused in hot sauce.

In one incident, she was loaded with a backpack on each shoulder, one on her back and an additional weight on her front and made to run on a dirt road. She was followed in a car, which would hit her when she went too slowly.

More:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2017-09-01/10-year-old-girl-beaten-dragged-by-car-in-ny-4-charged