Youth charged with attempted murder, rape; 15-year-old male assaulted 83-year old woman

Posted 9/30/09

DREHER TONWSHIP, PA — A 15-year-old male from Tobyhanna, was arrested on October 1, for stabbing an 83-year old woman and then raping her at her home in Dreher Township. Azaiah Williams allegedly …

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Youth charged with attempted murder, rape; 15-year-old male assaulted 83-year old woman

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DREHER TONWSHIP, PA — A 15-year-old male from Tobyhanna, was arrested on October 1, for stabbing an 83-year old woman and then raping her at her home in Dreher Township. Azaiah Williams allegedly committed the crimes on September 24.

According to press release from Wayne County District Attorney Janine Edwards, “the victim was taken to Pocono Medical Center and put into a medically induced coma due to the severity of her injuries and she remains in that condition. A laboratory used in this investigation found semen in the underpants of the victim which were taken as part of a sexual assault evidence collection kit done at the hospital.”

Williams allegedly took a credit card belonging to the victim, and his aunt discovered it in his possession and called the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department. An officer who responded to the home, recognized the victem’s name on the card.

Williams voluntarily went to the Pennsylvania State Police station in Honesdale and admitted to knocking on people’s doors in the victim’s neighborhood. He said he went to the victim’s door to ask to use her phone, and she answered the door holding a seven-inch steak knife. He took the knife away from her, and repeatedly stabbed the victim in her neck, chest and back before removing her clothing and raping her. He left her on the floor unconscious and bleeding.

Edwards said, “No one can answer why these things happen, but thankfully because of both the intensive police work of the Pennsylvania State Police and the exceptional alertness of the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department an atrocious crime is solved. The severity and heinousness of these crimes leads to the charging of this 15 year old as an adult. I am hopeful the victim recovers and can see justice in this matter.”

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