White Women Raped and Robbed in Their Homes

Two 14-year-olds were charged Friday in a spree of armed home invasions in Grant Park that resulted in one rape and one sexual assault.

Quintez Martavious Griffin and Edward Maurice Palmer were indicted as adults in Fulton County on charges of armed robbery, rape, aggravated sodomy [Translation: They forced the "crackers" at gunpoint to suck their cocks.] and false imprisonment in the attacks, which occurred on consecutive nights spanning from March 30 to April 1. A third suspect is being sought.

Police said the two youths live in the neighborhood but apparently did not know the victims. The women, who were alone at the time, were forced into their homes.

“They knew the area; they may have known some of the patterns” of the victims, said Lt. R.C. Robinson, commander of the Atlanta police sex crimes unit.

The attacks rocked the tightly knit, intown neighborhood of older homes that has been transformed through the years into high-priced real estate. Residents have battled burglaries and car break-ins by hiring off-duty police officers to patrol the neighborhood during the day, when most property crimes occur.

“This is the worst crime [that has occurred] in Grant Park; it shook the neighborhood pretty severely,” said resident Hillary Gray, who knows one of the victims. “We got a little complacent over the years. This was a wake-up call — that we still have to be careful. We’re looking out of our rearview mirrors now.”

Gray said one of the victims has not returned home.

The first attack occurred in the 300 block of Grant Park Place. The victim was forced into her home while opening the front door, and raped and sexually assaulted by two suspects. Police said a third suspect ransacked the home during the ordeal.

The next night, a woman in the 700 block of Grant Terrace, a couple of blocks from the first attack, had come home and unlocked her front door to let her dog in when an armed suspect stepped from the bushes and forced her inside.

The third attack occurred the following night, again in the 300 block of Grant Park Place. That woman was carrying groceries from her car. She told police that she tried to close her front door but that her attackers pushed it open and held a gun to her back. She told police the attackers demanded money and became impatient, threatening to shoot her. She gave them about $500 and ran out the front door as one of the attackers started counting the money.

At least one victim told police the attackers used racial epithets during the attacks, but prosecutors and police said they think the incidents were crimes of opportunity, not racially motivated.

“Some things were said that had a racial tone,” [Translation: "suck my dick you White cracker bitch".] Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley said. “But it was juvenile criminal intimidation.”

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