A black male has been sentenced to 12 life sentences for a dozen Atlanta rapes

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Dandre Shabazz

A man who was convicted of raping a dozen women in Atlanta over a three-year period has been sentenced to 12 consecutive life terms.

Dandre Shabazz, 56, was sentenced March 3 by Fulton County Superior Court Senior Judge Alford Dempsey, who presided over the case. Feb. 26, Shabazz was convicted by a jury of rape, kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated assault with deadly weapon, aggravated sodomy and aggravated child molestation in several incidents involving 12 female victims.

According to a news release, all of the rapes took place between 2002 and 2005 in locations in the southwest Atlanta area.

♩ Jan. 24, 2002: one victim — 1109 Windsor St.

♩ April 10, 2002: one victim — 1256 Sylvan Road

♩ June 17, 2002: one victim — Perkerson Park

♩ Aug. 21, 2002: two victims — Perkerson Park

♩ Aug. 24, 2002: one victim — Perkerson Park

♩ Dec. 21, 2002: one victim — 3481 Atlanta Industrial Park

♩ March 28, 2003: one victim — Perkerson Park

♩ March 31, 2004: one victim — 1182 Sims St.

♩ May 21, 2004: two victims — 1189 McDaniel St.

♩ March 26, 2005: one victim — 958 Arthur St.

“Shabazz is a violent serial rapist who targeted young African-American females who were alone late at night,” the release stated. “Shabazz specifically focused upon women who were struggling and in many cases were sex workers. During the attacks, Shabazz utilized a gun and did not wear a condom.”

DNA evidence collected from some of the sexual assault kits from Shabazz’s victims that were stored at Grady Memorial Hospital helped crack the cold case. They were part of the group of about 1,500 backlogged kits that went untested for, in some cases, as many as 15 years until federal grant funding and a new Georgia law required they be examined.

The Fulton County district attorney’s office played a major role in recovering and transporting the kits to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) for testing.

In 2017, the GBI notified the district attorney’s office of a Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) match between Shabazz and a sexual assault kit collected in 2003. Shabazz was later matched to the kits collected from the remaining victims in this case.

He was indicted by a Fulton County grand jury in 2018. Shabazz was serving a prison sentence in North Carolina for robbery and other related charges and, without this indictment, was expected to be released in September 2019.

This case was prosecuted by the Fulton district attorney’s office’s sexual assault kit initiative task force. The group was formed in March 2018, as a result of a $1 million U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant. The Fulton district attorney’s office was one of only five district attorney’s offices nationwide to receive the award. The task force is dedicated to exclusively investigating and indicting cases resulting from CODIS matches.

“This man was a violent and ruthless serial rapist,” Fulton District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in the release. “Because rape kits were not tested in a timely manner, he was allowed not only to continue to prey upon the women of our community, but he almost got away with his brutal crimes, scot-free. I am thankful to all of the people who worked so hard to get these rape kits tested. The criminal justice system should never allow rape kits to go untested again.”

https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/a-man-has-been-sentenced-to-12-life-sentences-for-a-dozen-atlanta-rapes/article_b87045fe-5d8a-11ea-8281-87880329b0e4.html

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Taurence Callagain

An Atlanta man who allegedly told a woman he was gay to gain her trust before raping her has been convicted of the crime.

In a news release, Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr.’s office announced a Fulton Superior Court jury convicted Taurence Callagain, 36, of rape Feb. 21. Judge Eric Dunaway presided over the case, and Callagain will be sentenced at a date to be determined.

Several weeks before Sept. 6, 2015, the victim in the case met Callagain at the H.E. Holmes MARTA station in west Atlanta. They rode the same train and eventually exchanged phone numbers.

According to the release, the victim is a lesbian and has a female partner who she was in a relationship with when she met the defendant. Callagain told the victim he was gay to make her think their relationship was strictly platonic.

The victim regularly rode two MARTA buses and a train to commute to and from work. Sept. 6, 2015, after the victim missed the final bus of the night at 11:40 p.m., Callagain offered her a ride home so she didn’t have to walk a mile and a half to her apartment in the Allen Hills complex.

According to the release, Callagain said he first had to stop at his house to pick up some marijuana.

“When they arrived, Callagain and the victim entered his home,” the release stated. “At that point, the victim thought they were going to Callagain’s bedroom to smoke marijuana when he began to strangle her and proceeded to violently rape her. During the rape, Callagain told the victim if she fought or screamed, ‘I will get my boys to come in and hold you down.’

“The victim heard a male voice in the house, so she was terrified that if she kept screaming Callagain would, in fact, do as he said. Eventually, the victim escaped the defendant’s room, and she fled the location.”

The victim ran three miles to her home in the middle of the night before going to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment and then calling the police. She accurately described the interior of Callagain’s home, and her underwear was found in his laundry hamper.

According to the release, the defendant claimed the sex was consensual, but he was later arrested. Callagain has a pending aggravated assault case in Fulton but has no other criminal history.

https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/an-atlanta-man-who-pretended-to-be-gay-to-gain-a-woman-s-trust-has/article_71eab87a-57fa-11ea-8f10-7f36eba9c516.html

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Brian Phillips, left, and Elizabeth Cooley

A Cobb grand jury has indicted a Marietta man and a woman half his age for child cruelty and molestation, among a slew of other charges.

Brian Deshawn Phillips, 46, and Elizabeth Anne Cooley, 23, are accused of working in concert to molest an underage girl at an extended-stay hotel on Canton Road, near the Canton Road Connector and Interstate 75, over a period of two years.

Phillips is also accused of molesting other women at various locations throughout Cobb across that two-year span.

Of the 27 charges under which Phillips and Cooley are listed as co-defendants, they include charges of aggravated child molestation, trafficking persons for sexual servitude, rape and first degree cruelty to children.

According to a warrant for Phillips' arrest, he is accused of molesting a girl under the age of 16 by forcing her to perform various sex acts on him between January of 2021 and July of 2023 at the hotel on Canton Road.

Another warrant alleges Phillips sexually assaulted other underage girls from 2021 to 2023 at various different locations throughout Cobb, including an extended-stay hotel on Busbee Parkway, an apartment complex in Smyrna and other locations in Kennesaw and Marietta.

Phillips is also accused in that warrant of burglary for allegedly breaking into the home of a woman he then sexually assaulted.

Cooley is accused in a separate warrant of assisting Phillips in one of those acts between January 2021 and January 2022.

In another indictment handed down last week, Phillips is charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of more than an ounce of marijuana.

In a different warrant from those detailing his alleged sex crimes, police wrote that Phillips was convicted in Broward County, Florida, in October 2003 of child fondling. Marietta police say they found a pistol on Phillips upon his arrest, hence the charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Police wrote in the warrant they also found more than 30 grams of what they suspected was marijuana in Phillips' nightstand at his Marietta apartment.

According to jail records from the Cobb County Sheriff's Office, Phillips and Cooley share a residence at the Laurel Hills Preserve Apartments on Bells Ferry Road, just southeast of Town Center mall.

Both were arrested Jan. 30 and have been held at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center without bond since their arrests, jail records indicate.

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3419500055479-marietta-couple-indicted-for-child-molestation