Dog possibly beaten, suspect charged with rape
Rockaway, NY (US)Incident Date: Sunday, Dec 17, 2006
County: Nassau
Disposition: Not Charged
Person of Interest: Dustin B. Gills
Case Updates: 1 update(s) available
ASPCA agents quizzing a 28-year-old security guard on animal abuse allegations instead arrested him on rape charges after finding a naked 14- year-old girl in the bathroom.
Agents went to the Queens Health Care Facility in Rockaway on Dec 17 night to ask Dustin Gill whether he had taken and beaten his girlfriend's dog.
Gill, employed as an armed guard, was posted at a security shack outside the vacant medical buildings.
A disheveled Gill, who wasn't wearing a shirt, opened the door to the shack, said ASPCA Assistant Director Joseph Pentangelo. One of the agents asked to use the bathroom and found the girl undressed. Her clothes were scattered around the room.
"He referred to her as his girlfriend during the interview process," Pentangelo said. "According to the victim, the suspect had been intimate with her several times since September 2005."
ASPCA Special Agent Richard Ryan arrested Gill. He was charged him with two counts of rape, four counts of endangering the welfare of a child and four counts of sexual abuse.
Some of the alleged rapes happened in Gill's Brooklyn home, Pentangelo said.
The victim told agents Gill gave her a 3-month-old white pit bull as a token of his affection, but then "snatched" the dog from her.
The dog has not been found.
Case Updates| Dustin B. Gills, a 28 year-old security guard, will appear in court on child endangerment charges on March 19, 2007. The charges stem from an incident last fall in which he was found by humane officers in a disheveled state with an undressed 14 year-old girl. The officers were investigating claims that Gills had stolen and beaten his girlfriend's dog. The girl reported that she and the defendant had been intimate on several occasions. The victim told agents that Gill gave her a 3-month-old white pit bull as a token of his affection, but then later stole the dog from her. The dog was never found, and to date no animal cruelty charges have been filed. | Source: Queens Criminal Court Docket # 2006QN065760
Update posted on Mar 14, 2007 - 10:43PM |
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