{"id":202684,"date":"2026-03-23T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:21:13","slug":"boy-12-gets-house-arrest-13-year-old-denied-bond-amid-rape-case-in-miami-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202684\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 12, gets house arrest, 13-year-old denied bond amid rape case in Miami \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the three young suspects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/3-suspects-ages-12-13-and-15-arrested-in-rape-of-12-year-old-girl-in-miami\/3774076\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/3-suspects-ages-12-13-and-15-arrested-in-rape-of-12-year-old-girl-in-miami\/3774076\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">facing charges in the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl<\/a> at a community garden in Miami last year were back in court Monday where a judge denied bond for one and granted house arrest for the other.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Nunez, 13, was denied bond and will stay in jail while he awaits trial, while 12-year-old Jusiah Jones was granted house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez, Jones and 15-year-old Xavier Tyson are all charged as adults in the alleged rape that happened June 18, 2025, records show.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victim told investigators she was taken to the Green Haven Project at 1160 Northwest 2nd Avenue, a community garden in Overtown, by the group of boys before she was held down and prevented from screaming when rocks were forced into her mouth.<\/p>\n<p>While Jones and Tyson allegedly held the young girl down, Nunez raped her, arrest reports said.<\/p>\n<p>A grand jury indicted the boys on various charges, including kidnapping &amp; false imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/teens-charged-in-rape-of-12-year-old-girl-seek-bond\/3783520\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/teens-charged-in-rape-of-12-year-old-girl-seek-bond\/3783520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">asking to be released<\/a>, Jones&#8217;s attorney claimed he was pressured into participating in the assault by the other teens.<\/p>\n<p>An attorney for Nunez also sought his release, saying he admitted to the crime, he was remorseful, and his family was willing to welcome him home to take care of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the three young suspects facing charges in the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-202684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202684","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=202684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}