Oct 15, 2008 12:51 pm US/Central
4 Men Accused Of Beating Mentally Disabled Man
NORTHFIELD, Minn. (WCCO) ―
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Police arrested 21-year-old Jonathon Diepold (upper left), 19-year-old John Maniglia (upper right), 21-year-old Timothy Ketterling (lower left) and 33-year-old Glen Ries (lower right) for allegedly beating a mentally disabled man.
Dakota County
Four Minnesota men are in jail accused of beating and burning a mentally disabled man over the course of two days. Investigators believe it all started over a lie that a 16-year-old girl told.
After a court hearing on Tuesday, 21-year-old Jonathon Diepold, 19-year-old John Maniglia, 33-year-old Glen Ries and 21-year-old Timothy Ketterling walked back to jail after being charged in two brutal weekend beatings against the same mentally disabled man.
Ries, Diepold and Maniglia are from Northfield; Ketterling is from Prior Lake. The Dakota County Attorney's Office has charged each of the men with assault and false imprisonment.
Chief Deputy David Bellows calls it one of the worst cases he's seen.
"I looked at the photographs, and it truly, in almost my 29 years in law enforcement, are some of the most difficult photos to look at," Bellows said.
Deputies say it was just off a rural road in southern Dakota County where the first attack took place. A 16-year-old girl hanging out with the 24-year-old man with mental disabilities told some other guys he'd assaulted her.
"They didn't check it out. They didn't question it. They just beat this man," Bellows said.
Court documents said that night it was Diepold and Manigila that punched, kicked and struck the victim with objects over the course of several hours, and then they took him home.
The next night, the man was again with the girl and in front of the fountain in downtown Northfield. A pickup full of the same guys pulled up and took the man to the same remote spot. Court documents said during this time the victim was also bound to a tree with a belt and he was burned with a cigarette lighter and heated credit card.
After that beating on the second night, the victim was able to make his way to the road where someone spotted him and took him to the Northfield Police Department. That's where he was able to give police a description of the pickup, and then he was taken to a hospital.
The 16-year-old is in trouble in this case too. Court documents say she also beat the man.
The victim has some broken ribs but he is expected to be OK.
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