His family is stunned, once believing a school is one of the safest places for kids to be.
“It’s crazy because why isn’t security or anybody at these doors for these kids? Why should it be a student that has to open the door?” said Donyale Oliver, the alleged victim’s aunt. “I went to the school and (I) asked them… ‘Do (you) know it was a little kid that was pulled from here and was raped? Do (you) have surveillance cameras on your doors?’ And they told me that (they) do, but (they’re) (broken). It never leaves you ever,” said Shanita Jones, who lives in the home. That kid, his life is going to change forever. Police couldn’t find the scene, but we did right across the street from the school behind a woman’s house. A detective told Fox 2’s Taryn Asher the boy claimed it happened by a clubhouse and his shoes would still be there. Police started interviewing neighbors and searching for the crime scene. The 13-year-old, who lived just a block away, was taken to St. “The parents got here before the police got here, and the little boy, he’s all messed up, and I’m just like, okay, who does that now? This is what Detroit (is) coming to now.” Snyder called police and the teen’s family. They reportedly took off in a green pickup truck, and the alleged victim went to get help. He answered and that’s when he was grabbed by two men who forced him behind an east side Detroit house on Lakepointe and raped him. The fifth grader, who attends Wayne Elementary School, told police someone was banging on one of the school’s doors. “I (saw) the little boy walking up the street with his hands behind his back and he had no pants on. Lawrence Snyder knew something was wrong the second he spotted the child walking down the street. All we could hear were people saying, ‘Stop! Don't! … I thought we would die.Jesus, what is going on out there on the streets: They would come into the cell to violate us, but it was dark - we couldn't see them. At night, they hung us from our hands - they tortured us with electricity to the genitals. We were 80 persons in one cell with no light for 30 days. "When I was in detention in Syria I was tortured in every possible way. A gay refugee called Tarek recalled his experience in the report: Numerous individuals have described shocking torture while in detention, including weapons being used as tools of rape. Why should he? We know that everyone in jail is raped - it is normal."
A Syrian refugee called Sami, told UNHCR, "A man would never speak of this. One focus group of refugee women in Jordan estimated that between 30-40 percent of the adult men in their community were victims of sexual violence while in detention in Syria. Victims have accused armed groups within Syria of carrying out mass rapes, with sexual violence often occurring in detention or prison facilities. Read more: Syrian Kurds seize territory from IS with US, Russian support The report found that children and elderly men were also victims, but that gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals were particularly vulnerable. It found that sexual violence towards boys and men is much more common than had been believed. The study was based on information mainly gathered in late 2016 and provided by several dozen informants and through discussions with around 196 refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.