Three Arrested In Vicious Assault
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Arrests In "Unspeakable" Waldport Assault
WALDPORT, Ore. - The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is investigating a brutal assault that took place over the weekend.
Deputies were called to Southwest Pacific Highway around 11:30 p.m. Saturday and found a 17-year-old male beaten, burned and unconscious. He was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Newport.
The sheriff's office says the victim and the three men who attacked him all knew each other. One acquaintance says the three suspects had a history of taunting and intimidating the victim.
Police arrested 18-year-old Christopher Sparks, 19-year-old Cody Rector and 20-year-old Robert Bernal. Investigators say it started in the victim's apartment. Neighbors said they heard yelling and howling when, according to the charges, the three beat the victim, sodomized him, and burned him with a lighter. All face charges of assault, sexual penetration, harassment and reckless endangering.
The suspects are being held on $262,500 bail and were arraigned Monday afternoon in Lincoln County court.
Sparks, Rector and Bernal are due back in court March 10.
3/3/2008