Anferney Fontenet, 15, Rapes Woman on Busy Toledo Street; No One Stops to Help

​UPDATE: Prosecutors will petition to charge Anferney Fontenet as an adult for the brazen daylight rape. Meanwhile, the victim's mother has no ill-will toward to people who failed to help her daughter. See update after the jump...

The 26-year-old woman was walking from a friend's house to the library when she was accosted by 15-year-old Anferney Fontenet. He pulled a scissors and said he would cut her if she screamed. Then he raped her in broad daylight as cars drove past.

Anferney Fontenet forced the woman to the sidewalk and raped her in broad daylight as cars drove past.

Though several drivers called 911, no one bothered to stop and help the woman. One driver slowed down and beeped. Another turned around to come back to the scene just as the boy was running away.

Even after the boy fled, stealing her cell phone, the woman tried to borrow the phone of a pedestrian. But the man just kept walking, refusing to help her.

Which has left her pretty pissed. "I'm ticked off because people were doing nothing," she told the Toledo Blade. "Just driving by. What kind of humans are we becoming?" She suffers from both bipolar disorder and Asperger's syndrome and lives in a nearby group home.

But police aren't so quick to call this a case of inhumanity. Judging by the descriptions, this doesn't sound like the nicest neighborhood -- perhaps some were too scared to stop. And some of the motorists who called 911 weren't sure if they witnessed rape or very public consensual sex.

Neighbors did help police catch Anferney Fontenet, who's been charged with rape and robbery. He confessed that he simply saw the woman walking down the street and decided to target her at random.

He said he heard car horns during the rape, but just kept on going.

UPDATE: From a predator's perspective, the victim was the perfect woman to attack.

Aside from being bipolar and suffering from mild autism, she also uses a cane at age 26 because she struggles with her balance. That kind of defenselessness may be why she was targeted on a Toledo street.

The woman says she noticed someone following her. When she turned around, Anferney Fontenet told her he would pay for sex. She refused, so "Finally he grabbed me by the jacket and pulled out a pair of scissors and said if I made a sound he would cut me," she told the Toledo Blade.

He pressed the scissors to her chest and ordered her to her knees. Then he pulled down her sweatpants and raped her.

She yelled for help during the attack, and noticed two cars that drove past but failed to stop. After Fontenet fled, she asked a man walking down the street if he could use his cell phone, but the man kept walking.

Fontenet has no previous record, and those in the neighborhood say he was a normal kid outside his occasional habit of mooching cigarettes, saying they were for his mother. Prosecutors are now deciding whether they'll try him as an adult.

This wasn't the first time the woman has been accosted in the neighborhood. She was once robbed by kids who hit her over the head with a skateboard. But for all her troubles, she appears to be pretty tough.

"I think I'm doing great, I haven't snapped down into tears yet," she told the Blade. "I just want this scumbag off the streets... I would really be disgusted with the court system if they don't lock him up. I think he should be treated as an adult and a registered sex offender."

UPDATE II: Prosecutors hope to try Anferney Fontenet as an adult, and the mother of the victim has no ill-will to drivers who failed to stop or call police.

Under Ohio law, prosecutors will have to prove the 15-year-old can't be rehabilitated within the juvenile system. Despite the depravity of the crime, that may be a bit harder than usual, because the kid has no previous record.

Meanwhile, the victim's mom is asking witnesses to stop feeling sorry for their failure to act. "My family and I have no anger for any of those passers-by who did not stop or did not tell law enforcement officials," she told the Toledo Blade. "Who could believe their eyes that such a brazen crime was taking place on the street? I don't know what I would have done. I don't think anyone does until you get into a situation like that..."

"I'm not angry at the people who didn't call police. I'm angry at the person who did this. I want people to stop feeling bad."