> BY SOPHIA CHANG AND DEBORAH S. MORRIS | sophia.ch...@newsday.com;
> deborah.mor...@newsday.com

> September 4, 2008

> It was a random crime - a crime of opportunity, police said. (oh
> brother)

> Armed with baseball bats and a handgun, three men waited in the
> shadows of Frazer Park in Greenlawn early Tuesday morning, prosecutors
> said. There, they encountered a 17-year-old girl and two 21-year-old
> male friends, who had decided to hang out in the park while returning
> from the movies.

> What took place then, said one prosecutor, was "a parent's worst
> nightmare."

> After forcing them to a secluded area, the attackers took their money,
> tied them up, pulled their shirts over their heads, and then raped the
> girl three times, the girl said in court documents.

> Authorities say the three men arrested were Justin McDonald, 18, of 29
> Croley St. in Huntington; Anthony Minkeson, 19, of 176 N. 24th St. in
> Wyandanch; and his brother Patrick Minkeson, 18, of 68 Rutgers Lane in
> Huntington.

> At McDonald's arraignment yesterday at First District Court in Central
> Islip, Assistant District Attorney Elena Tomaro said the men "were
> waiting at the entrance of the park for an opportunity to victimize
> Suffolk County residents."

> It was about 1:15 a.m. when the victims were forced to walk through
> the park, more than 300 yards, to a secluded area, where they were
> ordered to lie on the ground. The attackers tied them up with
> shoestrings, took about $60 in cash, and threw their cell phones into
> a grassy area, Tomaro said.

> One of the male victims said he heard the attackers debating what to
> do. "The three guys had some type of discussion. Two of the guys
> wanted to leave. One of the guys wanted to stay and rape the girl," he
> told police in a statement.

> The girl begged for her attackers to stop. "I told him to stop. He
> said if I yelled, he would hurt me," she said in her police statement.

> The assailants took car keys from the victims and went through one
> car, looking for more money, Tomaro said.

> The victims untied themselves after the attackers left and called
> police from a nearby resident's home, according to court documents.

> In court, McDonald, dressed in baggy blue scrubs, pleaded not guilty
> yesterday to charges of first-degree robbery, rape and criminal sex
> act.

> Judge Dennis Cohen set bail at $500,000 cash and issued orders of
> protection for the three victims. McDonald was represented by Dave
> Geller, a Legal Aid attorney who asked for a lower bail and noted that
> McDonald lived with his mother.

> The Minkesons are due to be arraigned today on the same charges,
> according to District Attorney Thomas Spota's office.

> Det. Lt. Thomas O'Heir said at a Huntington news conference that after
> the victims called police, a responding patrol officer saw McDonald
> running on a nearby street and arrested him. The other suspects were
> arrested later Tuesday.

> The handgun has not been recovered, he added.

> Laure Nolan, Huntington deputy town supervisor, said the town has not
> had any more complaints about Frazer Park than its other 110 parks.
> She said the town's public safety department is checking through log
> books dating back a year for the times police or public safety
> officers were called.

> Nolan said public safety officers patrol Frazer Park at least once per
> night. She did not know what time patrols visited Frazer Park Tuesday
> night.

> "We get occasional calls for noise, people hanging out, but really
> nothing more than that. But in light of this incident, we have asked
> public safety to step up patrols in the area," she said.

> John Fraiberg, who has lived next to the park for almost three years,
> said he has not had any problems there.

> "It's a little scary because it's so close to home," Fraiberg said. "I
> know it's a park where teens like to hang out, but I never expected
> something like this."

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> I while back I picked up one of those "Banned from TV" tapes. One
> segment was an execution in some Arab country. Two men were guilty of
> rape of a teenager. The rapists were put up against a wall and the
> male relatives of the victim lined up in a firing squad with machine
> guns. The rapists were riddled with bullets.

> The point I'm trying to make is which country is the barbaric one? The
> US that apologizes for this black banditry, or the Arab country?