BROOKLYN - An employee at a Park Slope group home for juveniles has been arrested and charged for allowing three boys to slip out undetected the night they raped and beat a woman in Chinatown, the city's Department of Investigation said Thursday.
Denzel Thompson, 24, who is now suspended from Boys Town, was taken into custody Thursday for falsifying records that verified the boys were in their beds, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.
Thompson lied about checking on Eric Pek, Emanuel Burrowes and Sanat Asliev, all 16 years old, located at 289 Sixth Ave., every half hour, prosecutors said.
On June 1, after the three teens had snuck out of the shelter, Thompson wrote in the home's log that the boys were safe in their beds every half hour between 1:30 a.m. and 6 a.m, when prosecutors said they were raping and assaulting a woman in Lower Manhattan.
After slipping out of home that morning, the three boys made their way to the Eldridge Street Cafe in Chinatown and met a 33-year-old woman there.
They convinced her to come with them to a nearby park area, where they assaulted her, sources said. Afterwards, they went through her purse, where they found her I.D. and house keys, according to sources.
The boys then went to the victim's apartment building, where they were captured on surveillance footage, but ran away after they realized someone was in her apartment, sources said.
The three teenagers face rape and attempted rape charges.
Thompson is scheduled for arraignment on Thursday afternoon.
