Crime & Safety

Jamal Tompkins Accused of Raping Mentally Disabled Girl in Baldwin

Police say that the offense happened on the girl's way home from a high school football game.

police have accused Jamal Tompkins, 22, of 433 Zara St. in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood, and two male juveniles of raping a mentally disabled teenager in a vacant apartment at Baldwin’s on her way home from a high school football game last September.

detective Anthony Cortazzo said that the 17-year-old victim knew at least one of the three males charged in connection with the rape.

Because the victim is mentally disabled, she is not able to legally consent to sex, Cortazzo said, which led to Tompkins being charged with rape of a mentally disabled person and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a mentally disabled person.

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Based on victim testimony, Cortazzo said, Baldwin police are now also charging Cortazzo with rape-forcible compulsion and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse-forcible compulsion, meaning that the victim was forced into having sex.

Tompkins is also being charged with sexual assault, soliciting sexual assault, conspiring sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor-sexual exploitation and corruption of minors.

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Earlier this month, withdrew charges against Tompkins of unlawful restraint-serious bodily injury and false imprisonment while sending his other charges to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Tompkins will appear in the Allegheny County Courthouse for a pre-trial conference on Oct. 13.

Details surrounding the two other males charged in connection with the rape case are unavailable, as both are minors.

Police in Erie, PA,  under the alias "Devon Fred Howard." Erie police held Tompkins/"Howard" for eight days and released him before learning that Baldwin police had issued an arrest warrant for him the year before.

An informant for Baldwin police led them to check Erie for Tompkins, and he was re-captured soon after being released.


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