Derek
Bynum (l), David Lombard (r) and two North Miami Senior High classmates are
accused of raping a disabled girl in a school closet, authorities say.
Four Florida teens gang raped a
mentally disabled teen in a janitor’s closet at their high school, authorities
said.
The boys, ages 15-18, forced the
girl “to perform oral, anal and vaginal sex acts” during the brutal encounter, according to court documents reviewed
by the Miami Herald.
They were busted when a security
guard caught them leaving the closet and asked the girl what happened,
authorities said.
She claimed the teens told her not
to tell, but she did anyway.
They were all students at North
Miami Senior High where the girl was enrolled in a job training program at the
time of the January incident.
Police filed charges of sexual
battery on a mentally disabled person against the four teens — David Lombard,
17; Der 
ek Bynum, 18; Steven Jo seph, 15, and Kenoldo Alexis, 17.
News of their arrest remained quiet
for months until the Herald broke the story on Thursday.
School district officials lauded
Miami-Dade school police for their work on the case.
Kenoldo
Alexis (l), Steven Joseph (r) and two North Miami Senior High classmates are
accused of raping a disabled girl in a school closet, authorities say.
“Our thoughts continue to be with
the victim,” the district said in a statement to
the Herald.
Investigators are reviewing security
video of the teens going in and out of the closet, court records revealed.
One of the teens, Bynum, pleaded
with a judge to take pity on him in a handwritten note included in court
papers.
“I feel like I’m being tried and
accused of something I did not do,” he wrote. “All I want to do is graduate
from high school, make my family proud and be somebody. But, this case, I feel
like it will ruin my chances and dreams.”
“I’m sorry,” he added. “I’m really a
good kid.”
Police reports told a different
story.
Bynum previously told investigators
he compelled the girl to perform oral sex, and then quit “telling the victim to
stop because she was doing a terrible job,” the Herald reported.
The cases are ongoing. Bynum and
Lombard, the only two to enter pleas so far, have pleaded not guilty.