Accuser Rape Trial, A man accused of killing a Syracuse woman and raping her 10-year-old daughter during a carjacking was beaten and his nose was broken on his first day in jail, the authorities said.
The man, David Renz, was arraigned Friday morning at a court in East Syracuse on charges that he abducted the mother and daughter as they left a gymnastics class in Clay, N.Y., a Syracuse suburb.
The police said the girl was raped and her mother was stabbed to death before their attacker fled into the woods. The 10-year-old girl was found by a passing motorist, who called 911. Mr. Renz was captured a short time later.
Mr. Renz had a swollen face and tissues stuffed up both nostrils when he appeared in federal court on Friday to face a probation violation charge.
“I have a broken nose,” he told his lawyer, according to The Post-Standard in Syracuse.
His lawyers, James Greenwald and Kenneth Moynihan, said Mr. Renz had been assaulted by other inmates at the Onondaga County Justice Center, where he was taken after his arrest on Thursday night.
Sheriff Kevin Walsh of Onondaga County told the newspaper that he was looking into why Mr. Renz had been put into a holding area with other prisoners — not the usual practice in holding someone facing such accusations.
Sheriff Walsh said Mr. Renz has been segregated from other prisoners and was being watched around the clock. “We’re dealing with a man who is innocent until proven guilty,” he said. “He’s got to be protected.”
At the time of the attack, Mr. Renz was awaiting trial on federal child pornography charges and was supposed to be wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet tracking his whereabouts.
The authorities said they believed Mr. Renz had cut the device off. Tampering attempts with those devices are supposed to sound an alarm, and probation officials were investigating what went wrong, said John Duncan, an executive assistant United States attorney.
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