Jury selection in the trial of Nathan Walker and Tommy Lee Walker has begun. Lest we at PWSBKTW be accused of being in bad taste, we warn you that this one isn’t for the squeamish. As the New York Times reported:

After dark on June 18 [2007], the police say, as many as 10 armed assailants repeatedly raped a Haitian immigrant in her apartment at Dunbar Village and then went further, forcing her to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son. They took cellphone pictures of their acts. They burned the woman’s skin and the boy’s eyes with cleaning fluid, forced them to lie naked together in the bathtub, hit them with a broom and a gun and threatened to set them on fire.

Neighbors did not respond to her screams, and no one called the police. The victims ended up walking a mile to the nearest hospital afterward.

Some believe that the reason this case hasn’t become the biggest story in the country, despite being pretty much the most awful thing anyone has heard of, is it was a black-on-black crime. We at PWSBKTW don’t wade into such controversies.

Others might feel sympathy for the assailants, since they were teens, minors, at the time of the attack, and were poor or didn’t have fathers. We at PWSBKTW would like to feel sympathy for them, but unfortunately we used all ours up on the mother who was forced to perform oral sex on her son, and on the son. And on the others living in the Florida housing project — some rumored to be poor themselves — regularly terrorized by the actions of violent thugs. Nathan Walker, Tommy Lee Walker, and the others who participated in this terrible attack should be killed this week. Also, hugged, because they’re kids and all.

On to lighter news:

Jason Johnson was 18 years old when he was accused of killing three adults and a 2-year-old boy during a January 2003 home invasion in which he and an accomplice were looking for a submachine gun.

We at PWSBKTW would like to be sympathethic to Johnson, because we’re all about sympathy. And, after all, he was only 18. Plus, we certainly understand the desire to find a submachine gun. They’re very cool. But murdering your neighbors — a family and a little boy — doesn’t seem the nicest way to get one. Although Jason Johnson was sentenced to life in prison, he should be killed this week.

Rounding out our feel-good news segment, a 100-year-old man was beaten and robbed in Philadelphia this week.

“He placed his hands around his neck, threw him to the ground and began striking his head against the cement sidewalk,” said Lt. John Walker. “He took the man’s groceries and $30 out of his pocket and fled on foot.” …. Detectives say the centenarian, who was released from the hospital on Wednesday, suffered bleeding to his brain, but will eventually be fine following rehabilitation.

We don’t know how old the attacker is — there are no suspects — but we know how old the victim is: 100. That’s one hundred. Years. We’d like to have some sympathy for the attacker, whatever his age, because he was probably hungry — he stole the man’s groceries — but he slammed a 100-year-old man’s head against the ground. We at PWSBKTW are extraordinarily sympathetic — you can tell that by now — but anyone who beats and robs a 100-year-old should be killed this week.

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