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Man arrested, accused of raping woman while his children waited in the car
10:05 PM CDT on Friday, May 22, 2009
By STEVE THOMPSON / The Dallas Morning News
stevethompson@dallasnews.comThe woman was waiting at a Pleasant Grove bus stop when the rapist pulled up in a Buick Riviera, Dallas police say. He pointed a gun at her and ordered her inside.
She noticed two young boys in the back seat. They called her attacker "Daddy," the woman told police.
She asked him: Are you really going to do this with your kids in the car? He told her to shut up and do as she was told.
The man took her to a vacant house and raped her while his sons waited in the car, police say.
Days later, the same man pulled alongside another woman in his Buick, police say. The woman – who was eight months pregnant – noticed a Bible on his dash and one boy in the back seat. The man tried to rape her, but she escaped.
Quinton Young
"I was not going to let him hurt me, and if he was, I was going have some type of evidence," the second woman said Friday. "If I scratched him, his DNA would be up under my nails. He wasn't just going to get away with it."
Police arrested 24-year-old Quinton Travoitz Young on Thursday, accusing him of the attacks. He was being held Friday in the Dallas County Jail on $225,000 bail and faces charges of aggravated sexual assault and attempted aggravated sexual assault.
Young did not immediately respond to an interview request Friday.
The first assault, on May 14, began about 10 a.m. along the 2400 block of South Buckner Blvd. The 20-year-old woman later told police she noticed the name "Gwendolyn" tattooed in cursive on her attacker's neck.
She said he drove her to a vacant home in Buckner Terrace, left his kids in the car, and marched her inside with a gun to the back of her head. Then he raped her.
The second attack began about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday as a 22-year-old pregnant woman was walking along North St. Augustine Drive, on her way to a dental office to get her teeth cleaned. A man came up from behind and flashed a small knife.
"I just turned around and did what he told me," the woman told The Dallas Morning News on Friday.
He ordered her into a Buick Riviera, where there was a young boy asleep in the back seat. In addition to noticing the Bible on the dashboard, she also saw a name tattooed in cursive on the right side of his neck, she told police.
He drove to a different vacant house nearby and ordered her inside. He left the boy, who had woken up, in the car.
"He left the windows up, and he cracked the passenger's side, I guess so he [the boy] could breathe," the woman said. "But as hot as it was that day, I know he was hot and about to pass out."
The man forced her inside the home through a back door.
"He pulled out the condom ... and I guess he put it on; I wasn't quite sure because I was busy focusing on a way to get away from him," the woman said. "He came up to me and tried to pull down my clothes, and I just was not going to let him do it that easy."
As she began to struggle, he grabbed her purse and fled. She chased after him.
"That's how I had got the license plate number," said the woman, who is due to give birth next month. "I was running like a little distance behind him."
The woman flagged down a passerby and borrowed her cell phone to call 911.
On Thursday about 11 a.m., an officer spotted the Buick headed north along Kingsford Avenue in Pleasant Grove. Police pulled the car over and arrested Young, whose criminal history in Dallas County includes only a misdemeanor theft arrest in 2003.
His two sons, who a police report says appeared to be about 4 and 5, were in the back seat. There was a Bible on the dashboard, and the name "Gwendolyn" was tattooed in cursive on his neck.
Officers released the boys to Young's mother; her first name is Gwendolyn.
