Maryland girls tortured autistic boy, forced him to perform sex act with family pet: sheriff’s office
17-year-old Lauren Bush and her 15-year-old accomplice are accused by the St. Mary’s Country department for committing a number of heinous acts, including hurting the 16-year-old boy with a knife and making him fall into an icy pond. The abusers also filmed the atrocious acts, said the police.
Two Maryland teenagers tortured a 16-year-old autistic boy with a knife, forced him to engage in a sex act “beyond comprehension” and even filmed the cruel deeds for a still undetermined reason, police alleged.
Bush and her 15-year-old accomplice were arrested by the St. Mary’s Country Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Tim Cameron told the Daily News Wednesday the brutal and devilish allegations in this case are some of the worst he has ever seen and it has shocked the rural Maryland country.
The suspects recorded themselves assaulting their mentally challenged victim by pointing a knife to his throat, making him walk across a frozen pond and not helping when he fell in multiple times and kicking him in the groin, Cameron said.
Perhaps the most horrifying charge was a sexual act they allegedly forced him into performing.
“The victim was forced to masturbate and then copulate with a family pet,” he said. “It’s beyond comprehension.”
These actions occurred between December and March, Cameron said, adding the girls knew the victim in the rural Mechanicsville, Md., town.
The sheriff continued to say that the victim did sustain some injuries from the suspects’ torture but he did not know the extent of it.
The girls were arrested after one suspect’s mother found the video on her daughter’s phone and alerted the school resource officer at the Chopticon High School where they both attended, Cameron said.
Authorities are trying to figure out why the girls filmed these acts and if they showed it to anyone or if they shared it on social media, he said.
“I’m hoping our investigation will get some answers. It’s hard to fathom,” he said. “This is heinous and shocking. Why would someone show such hatred and evil to a person?”
The teenage girls are charged with assault, soliciting a subject in the production of child pornography, false imprisonment, Cameron said adding more charges may be filed.
“We’re a close knit community and everyone is shocked here,” he said. “Like everyone else in town I’m hoping to know the rest of the story.”
Bush will be charged as an adult and the other suspect will be charged as a juvenile, Cameron said. Bush has been released but the 15-year-old is still at a juvenile detention facility, he said.