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Rapture attack? Man accused of trying to rape woman with child blamed fear of End Times
'I need to confess,' attempted rape suspect tells police.
By Gary Taylor, Orlando Sentinel
3:35 PM EDT, June 6, 2011
A 28-year-old Daytona Beach man who told police he was worried about the Rapture faces charges of attempted sexual battery and kidnapping in an attack on a woman who was pushing her 4-year-old son in a stroller.
Ray Allen Martin, 28, is being held without bail in the Volusia County Branch Jail.
According to an arrest affidavit:
The victim, who is also 28, told police she was walking east on the south side of the bridge about 10:45 a.m. Monday when she saw a man walking west on the opposite side of the bridge.
She told police the man, later identified as Martin, crossed the bridge and began following her. When he continued to follow her as she walked south on N. Peninsula Avenue, she called her fiancé and told him she was worried.
The woman was able to tell her fiancé where she was before Martin placed his hands over her mouth and began dragging her toward a breezeway of a building in the 300 block of Harvey Street.
He pulled the woman's pants and underwear down and kept telling her to "shut up." She said "no" and yelled for her child.
A man walking in the area intervened and Martin fled.
Martin was apprehended a short distance away on Harvey Street.
"I need to confess," he told arresting officers. "I'm afraid, so afraid of my life."
He went on to say he was "so afraid of the rapture" and that he needed to tell the victim he was sorry.
"I just needed her to feel my fear too," he said.
gtaylor@tribune.com or 407-391-9681
Copyright © 2011, Orlando Sentinel
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Rapture attack? Man accused of trying to rape woman with child blamed fear of End Times
'I need to confess,' attempted rape suspect tells police.
By Gary Taylor, Orlando Sentinel
3:35 PM EDT, June 6, 2011
A 28-year-old Daytona Beach man who told police he was worried about the Rapture faces charges of attempted sexual battery and kidnapping in an attack on a woman who was pushing her 4-year-old son in a stroller.
Ray Allen Martin, 28, is being held without bail in the Volusia County Branch Jail.
According to an arrest affidavit:
The victim, who is also 28, told police she was walking east on the south side of the bridge about 10:45 a.m. Monday when she saw a man walking west on the opposite side of the bridge.
She told police the man, later identified as Martin, crossed the bridge and began following her. When he continued to follow her as she walked south on N. Peninsula Avenue, she called her fiancé and told him she was worried.
The woman was able to tell her fiancé where she was before Martin placed his hands over her mouth and began dragging her toward a breezeway of a building in the 300 block of Harvey Street.
He pulled the woman's pants and underwear down and kept telling her to "shut up." She said "no" and yelled for her child.
A man walking in the area intervened and Martin fled.
Martin was apprehended a short distance away on Harvey Street.
"I need to confess," he told arresting officers. "I'm afraid, so afraid of my life."
He went on to say he was "so afraid of the rapture" and that he needed to tell the victim he was sorry.
"I just needed her to feel my fear too," he said.
gtaylor@tribune.com or 407-391-9681
Copyright © 2011, Orlando Sentinel