“A teenager was arrested in Osceola County and charged with raping and killing a 99-year-old woman inside a Poinciana home. Detectives said they believe Edith Mecalla, who was a mother of 11 and a grandmother of 50, was targeted by Moise O. Opont, 17, at her home. Opont raped and murdered her Sunday before the victim’s granddaughter spotted him and he ran out the home’s back door, investigators said. Opont was charged Thursday. The boy’s father, Rev. Richard Opont, spoke with Local 6 about the incident. ‘My defense is in God’s hands,’ Opont said. ‘Every day, I teach my family the same thing.’ ‘We expect people to die,’ the victim’s granddaughter, Michelle Smith, said on Wednesday. ‘It is a part of life. But to go in this violent manner at this stage in your life, that is the part that hurts the most. She is 99 years old. You could see she is old and lying there. Why would you do this?’” — (US)

(Thanks for the link to Neko, who wrote: “I think old-people rape has probably been done, but the religious aspect interested me (you can just imagine their family meals together) as did the creepily ambiguous statement by the kid’s dad.”)

It is true, Neko, that PervScan has covered a number of stories about “old-people rape” or gerontophilia. It seems paradoxical: if you’re going to risk jail to rape someone, why choose a little old lady? But then this crime occurs in reality more often than you’d imagine, which suggests that, though it may sound paradoxical to a logical mind, it makes perfect sense to a warped one.

There are actually experts who specialize in profiling gerontophiles. Is it too hasty to call this young man a gerontophile? It’s unclear whether he has much of a history with old ladies, but authorities “believe the elderly woman was targeted by Opont and that they don’t believe robbery was his motive.” If he wasn’t motivated by robbery, it implies he wanted to attack the old woman. Maybe it wasn’t lust. Maybe he bore her some grudge. Maybe she was a feisty old lady who dared to tell the kid to clean up his act. Neighbors assert that the pastor’s son was never an angel.

As for the religious aspect of the story, it is difficult not to relish the sight of religious people caught red-handed in some crime. It deflates their holier-than-thou pretensions and puts them on the same footing as the rest of us sweating, struggling, fucked-up humans. But that doesn’t really pertain here. The rapist appears to have been rebelling against the religiosity of his home, and you wouldn’t want to lay any of the son’s sins at the father’s doorstep. Maybe he’s a bad dad, maybe he’s a great one. The only thing you can say for sure is that, Jesus or no Jesus, the father must be heartbroken.

Finally, the 99-year-old victim may well be the oldest ever to suffer such an ignominious fate. Somebody call the folks over at Guinness World Records. What is the age of the oldest rape victim ever?

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