{"id":198364,"date":"2026-03-19T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198364\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:02:09","slug":"teens-charged-in-rape-of-12-year-old-girl-in-miami-seek-bond-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198364\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens charged in rape of 12-year-old girl in Miami seek bond\u00a0 \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two boys, ages 12 and 13, appeared in a Miami-Dade courtroom Thursday, accused of taking part in the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl<\/a> inside a community garden last June.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nelson Nunez, 13; Jusiah Jones, 12; and 14-year-old Xavier Tyson were all charged as adults<\/a> in the case, according to records. For an unknown reason, Tyson has not been booked into the adult system yet, but prosecutors tell NBC6 he is expected to surrender soon.<\/p>\n

According to police, the victim told investigators she was taken to the Green Haven Project, a community garden in North West Miami-Dade, by the group of boys, held down, and prevented from screaming when rocks were forced into her mouth. While Jones and Tyson allegedly held the young girl down, Nunez raped her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nunez and Jones have been in jail since they were directly filed into the adult jail. Since Wednesday, the two have had a bond hearing, where they have been seeking a form of release until their trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the past two days of what\u2019s called an Arthur Hearing, Jones’s and Nunez’s families have packed the courtroom to show support for their loved ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe minors, who are being charged as adults, did not appear in court and remain behind bars as their families dispute police reports and push for their release\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Jones is asking to be released, claiming he was pressured into participating in the assault by the other teens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the only one who paused and said, \u2018This is rape, we shouldn\u2019t be doing this,\u2019\u201d said Jean-Michel D\u2019Escoubet, Jones’s attorney.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Nunez\u2019s attorney Bijan Parwaresch argued his client should also be released until trial and be sent home to his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parwaresch said that Nunez admitted to the crime, he was remorseful, and his family was willing to welcome him home to take care of him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have any doubt,\u201d Nunez\u2019s mother told Judge Richard Hersch on Thursday when asked if she would be willing to supervise her son if granted some form of release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Judge Hersch did not issue any ruling Thursday. The bond hearing is expected to continue Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two boys, ages 12 and 13, appeared in a Miami-Dade courtroom Thursday, accused of taking part in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1219,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-198364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}