Man's attackers tattooed ‘RAPEST' on his forehead

A mentally impaired Oklahoma City man was held down and shocked in the genitals with a stun gun on April 17 while his attackers forcibly tattooed the word “RAPEST” on his forehead. The attackers also forcibly tattooed “I like little boys” on the man's chest. “It hurt,” Stetson Johnson, 18, recalled. “I was, like, ‘Why is this going on? … Why is this happening to me?' They was, like, ‘Just shut up.'”



Johnson was taken to Eagle Lake in Del City after being tattooed. There, his hands were taped together. He then was beaten in the arms and head with a baseball bat until he was unconscious, Del City police detective David Abel said. He spent days in a hospital in intensive care. In jail are four suspects, Richard Lynn Dellert, 31, of Irving, Texas; Zachary Chase Provence, 21, of Midwest City; Kimberly Sue Vergara, 25, of Midwest City; and Lorena Amanda Hodges, 33, of Oklahoma City. A judge has denied bail.

Johnson has covered up “RAPEST,” apparently a misspelling of “rapist”, with a tattoo resembling a bar code. His mother, Lucy Ford, said she intends to get her son's tattoos removed eventually. Police identified Dellert as a tattoo artist who also is known as Buddha. Police seized four tattoo guns, nine tattoo needles and 17 bottles of tattoo ink from him on April 26 in Midwest City.


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Detective Abel reported both women admitted they used a stun gun to shock Johnson in the genitals. He reported the women said Provence was the one who struck the victim at the lake with a baseball bat. One of the women claims Johnson tried to rape her, police and a prosecutor said. “There was no evidence to support that,” said Suit, the Del City police spokesman. “But, even if there was, the proper action is to make a police report, not take matters into your own hands.” Police and the victim's relatives say Johnson has a diminished mental capacity that existed before the beating.