Teen charged with raping underage runaway

By AISLING SWIFT
Naples Daily News
Posted October 22, 2010 at 3:38 p.m.


PIERRE,WILNESS
Charge: LEWD LASCIVIOUS BATTERY - SEXUAL ACT W PERSON 12 - 15 YOA
Residence: NAPLES
Age: 18
Occupation: STUDENT

Naples - An 18 Year old Lely High School student has been arrested on charges he raped an underage girl.

Wilness Pierre, who was arrested and jailed Thursday evening, has a hearing this afternoon before Acting Circuit Judge Vince Murphy, who will set bond .

In the arrest report, Collier Sheriff's Detective Frank Pilarski asked the judge to consider Pierre's lengthy criminal history, including probation violations, when he sets bond.

He's charged with lewd lascivious battery with a person between 12 and 15 years old. The statutory rape charge, a second-degree felony, is punishable by up to 15 years in a state prison.

Court records show Pierre, who lives in Whistler's Cove Apartments in East Naples, has been been jailed about 15 times, including several times under false birthdates. However, the charges are not public because they are juvenile records.

The report says Pilarski, of the Sheriff's Special Victims' Unit, was called to the Children's Advocacy Center of Collier County, where a rape kit had been conducted to gather DNA evidence from the child.

"(The girl) stated that this is the first time she has ever had sexual intercourse with anyone," Pilarski wrote in his report.

The report gives this account:

The girl told Pilarski she'd run away from home on Wednesday and a friend's mother gave her a ride to the Whistler's Cove Apartments. Someone there called a friend, Pierre, and asked that he come get her because she had nowhere to go for the night.

Pierre let her come over and they went into his bedroom, where they watched TV on his bed. He got on top of her and they began kissing, he removed her shorts and panties and began fondling her and she told him to stop.

He went to get a condom and then began to rape her for about 15 minutes until she told him to stop. They later fell asleep and she went to school. The report doesn't say who she alerted there, but she was taken to be interviewed by the Child Protection Team and after Pilarski spoke to her, he went to Pierre's house, where he agreed to provide a taped sworn statement. His incriminating remarks, by law, were deleted from the report.

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