MIAMI — Miami police say a group of boys took a 12-year-old girl to a community garden in the city’s Overtown neighborhood as one of them raped her for 30 minutes.
Authorities said Jusiah Jones, 12, shoved rocks in the girl’s mouth so she couldn’t scream while Nelson Nunez, 13, sexually assaulted her in front of Jones and two other boys at around 10 p.m. on June 18, 2025.
While police arrested them on juvenile charges the next day, Jones and Nunez are now charged as adults. Court records show they were booked into the Metrowest Detention Center on Thursday and the two boys appeared in adult bond court on Friday.
A 15-year-old boy is facing juvenile charges. Local 10 News is not identifying him because he has not been charged as an adult. Police said a fourth boy witnessed the incident.
According to the Miami Police Department, the rape happened at The Green Haven Project community garden, located at 1160 NW Second Ave., near Frederick Douglass Elementary School.
MPD arrest reports state that the young girl was leaving a friend’s house in Overtown when she saw Jones, Nunez and the two other boys in a parking lot area.
According to police, Nunez grabbed the girl and took her to a couch within the garden as Jones and the other boys followed. The report states that the victim told police that Jones and the 15-year-old “held her by the arms and legs preventing her from leaving” before Nunez started raping her.
More details about the alleged assault came after a woman who heard a commotion and saw the girl in the aftermath of the assault had her son call the boy who witnessed it, according to the report. Police said she heard a recounting of the incident over the phone, which she partially recorded, and described the call to investigators.
According to the report, the witness at the scene, after saying over the phone “what your momma seen, it wasn’t like that,” recounted that the 15-year-old “pulled down the victim’s bra as the victim was yelling to stop and proceeded to play with her breasts while holding her hands.”
Then, he said that Nunez asked one of the boys, “You think I should put it in?” and then began raping her, the report states.
“The victim began to yell, ‘No, no, stop, stop, it hurts’ and while she was yelling, (Jones) put rocks inside her mouth to shut her up” as the rape continued for a half-hour, the report states.
The woman said as she went to pick up her mail, she heard the girl screaming, “Stop, no, I’m not playing, I’m not playing.”
She told police, according to the report, that she went upstairs and asked, “Who is screaming?” and got no response. Then, she said she heard the girl’s father, whom she knows, yelling his daughter’s name.
“The victim stated that (Nunez) finally stopped when they heard her father calling her name, at which point (Nunez), the co-defendants, and the witness all ran towards the opposite direction of the sound of the victim’s fathers voice,” police wrote.
A witness would eventually flag down an MPD patrol officer to report the rape, the report states, and detectives interviewed those involved.
The boy who witnessed the crime would tell detectives, according to the report, that he “did not intervene because he was outnumbered and was afraid of getting beat up.”
Miami-Dade court records show that Nunez and Jones are facing charges of sexual battery causing serious injury and false imprisonment. Nunez is additionally facing a kidnapping charge.
Both boys were ordered held without bond Friday.
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