Court documents say that a teen from Chicago raped a 21-year-old woman who was holding a party in Hammond.
Documents show that her family hired Jonathan Gracia, a 19-year-old friend, to take pictures at her 21st birthday party on August 17. That night, he drank too much and passed out in her bed.
Soon after, she turned over and went to sleep on her other side. She said he held her down by the shoulders around 5:30 a.m. Before he raped her, she “froze” and was “scared.”
The next day, police in Hammond found him badly hurt somewhere else in the 1200 block of 175th Street. The victim’s brother had hit him, and Gracia’s mother had hit her with a pipe. The brother said he tried to stop his mom.
The cops wrote that Gracia’s face and arms were bleeding “excessively.”
Before, when Gracia fell back asleep at home, the victim ran and told her brother. He told Gracia to leave, but she took her black backpack from her room by accident.
At the woman’s house, he told her mother and brother that he hadn’t raped her before they attacked him and took the evidence outside, according to the charges.
The mother was arrested, and police said they would charge her with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon causing major bodily injury.
The brother’s clothes, shoes, and hands were all covered in blood.
He said his stepsister woke him up at 6 a.m. and told him that Gracia had raped the woman. To “set things right,” he went outside and fought Gracia. Then his mom joined in with a pipe. He tried to stop her, but Gracia tried to run away, so he kept fighting her.
The police said they could charge him with abuse.
The public court records don’t show The mother was charged on Tuesday. It’s not clear right now if the brother is being charged.
