Augustus Fontaine (or Family/Friend) of Dunbar Village Infamy Wants You to Know
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 6:49AM The Blogmother In the past, this blog covered lots of stories about crimes against Black women and girls. Crimes mainstream media... and heck Black media ignored. The Dunbar Village case was one of those cases where the media glare quickly left after the initial fascination with the HORROR of the facts in that case waned.
That case was also a damning condemnation of the immoral indifference of the Black elite establishment and played a central role in the development of this blog.
As a result of our coverage of various crimes over the years, occasionally, a perpetrator, victim, or friend and family member of the victims or perps will arrive at this blog years after we've covered a crime to leave a comment. Most don't make it through the moderation que because they are so profanity laced, I don't bother to clean them up and I delete them. This happens because this blog is usually one of the few places online to cover certain crimes in certain ways and when people Google their names, we show up at the top of the search results.
To refresh your memory about Augustus Fontaine, he was named by one of the rapists in the Dunbar Village atrocity, but apparently, the police were too lazy to do anything other than rely on DNA evidence in exchange for good old fashion shoe leather so he was never charged in that case, despite law enforcement promises that more arrests would be made in the case:
Lawson named two others as participants in the crime, but Melvin Young and Augustus Fontaine have not been charged.
According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report, investigators had DNA samples from both men when they tested forensic evidence, but there were no matches noted in the report.
Before jurors, prosecutor McRoberts asked West Palm Beach police Detective Dave Lefont if he anticipates more arrests in the crime.
"I think so," Lefont answered.
Had Melvin Young and Augustus Fontaine been charged... they would have been convicted in the Dunbar Village case... as for West Palm Beach Detective Lefont, they NEVER went back to charge Mr. Fontaine or Mr. Young for the crime and as far as I know, have given up completely on finding the other six men and boys who allegedly participated in the horror.
I say all this as background for the following comment which we received this week in one of the posts we wrote several years ago about Augustus Fontaine:
naw i aint hatian & i aint hurt nobody so how could yu judge by wat someone who dosnt like me say. i feel like anyone dat think me or melvin is guilty is freakin ignorant. i thought this was amerikkka? wat happen to innocent until proven guilty? yeah exactly dis country is a joke rite along wit da people in it. i have been thru a couple run ins wit da law bt im not an evil person. i have a huge heart 4 people an im a father to a 3yr old girl. a gud one at dat. so "F" all who dnt like me an dont even kno anythang about me. i wonder wat yu guys think about CASEY ANTHONY.
Facts leaning in the direction of this being Mr. Fontaine or one of his friends or family is the fact that the comment did in fact come from West Palm Beach Florida (I did a reverse IP lookup) and who the else would care about an obscure blog post written two or three years ago?
The only reason why I would say it wasn't Mr. Fontaine is that Mr. Fontaine was charged for his alleged role in drive by shootings- I haven't found any indication that he's been released pending trial... note that this is all before Mr. Fontaine reached the age of 18 years old:
Ontavious Moore, 25, and Augustus Fontaine, who turns 18 next month — are charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shootings of Bernard Jones, 17, Marvin Crowley and Tavaris Fox, both 15. Source
Mr. Fontaine or Mr. Fontaine's family or friend who left this, you wanted our attention and here is my response.
Dear Mr. Fontaine or Mr. Fontaine's Friends and Family:
By my estimate, you just had a birthday and turned 19 years old. Before the age of 18 you have already been implicated in a string of horrifically violent crimes. This is not normal for the rest of the world, while it appears to be the natural order of things for you and your associates in West Palm Beach, FL.
For a long time, I wished that all who participated in the Dunbar Village horror would burn in the flames of Hell or at least slow roast in Hell rotisserie style. In time I have had to evolve from the burning hot rage that fueled a desire to see all involved summarily executed via public firing squad and ask myself, what is it possibly that could happen to a human being to make them as callous and cold hearted and predatory as you appear to be at such a young age? Thank you for reminding me to be a better human being. To demonstrate grace and mercy towards others. To practice forgiveness and to extend kindness to those who haven't done a thing to earn or deserve it.
I have no doubt that you love your daughter in a manner in which you define love, but having a 3 year old daughter and loving her doesn't mean you are incapable of committing horrific acts of violence against women and girls that aren't your Mama or daughter. You can't hide behind your 3 year old daughter. The fact that you might love her doesn't mean you haven't done horrible things and loving her will not erase the stain of your past bad acts.
History is full with examples of men who ran concentration camps or carried out acts of genocide by day and went home every night to their daughters and wives. Being related to a woman has no bearing on whether of not you participated in a home invasion, raped and sodomized a woman in the most horrifically violent ways imaginable and then forced her to perform an act against nature on her own child before attempting to set her on fire. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, the law enforcement in West Palm Beach Florida and the governing class is so horrifically incompetent that you were not charged in the Dunbar Village case and therefore we had to wait until you allegedly committed another violent crime to see you behind bars.
One day your three year old daughter will have to walk the streets of West Palm Beach. She'll have to figure out how to survive in a world where the men and boys in her neighborhood get together and gang rape women and girls for their amusement and entertainment. I'm sure you say that you'll be around to protect her and defend her from these predatory men and boys, but the truth is that based on your current associations with alleged violent criminals, you are going to eventually end up in jail for the rest of your daughter's life. This means you won't be around to make sure that what happened to the Dunbar Village victim and her child, won't happen to your daughter and your grandchildren. Because somewhere out there, there is a 3 year old boy, just like you who is going to grow up thinking that in order to prove his value and worth as a "man" he has to go around brutalizing women and girls . . . girls like your three year old daughter.
And so it is in the spirit of wanting to not be like you, Mr. Fontaine, that I wish for you a life where you don't feel the need to run around allegedly raping and shooting people to feel empowered. While you spend what I predict to be a large portion of your adult life in jail, I hope you choose not to waste what is left of it believing that you're entitled to wound other people because you have been wounded. Most of all, I hope you pray to God for absolution for your bad acts. I hope in time you gain the courage to seek the forgiveness of your victims and in your own way attempt make them whole. Because THAT, Mr. Fontaine (or Mr. Fontaine's Family and Friends) is the only path to redemption for you.... not leaving comments on blogs or having 3 year old daughters.
The sooner you accept your past bad acts and attempt to atone for them, the sooner you will find true freedom irrespective of whether you live out the majority of your adult life behind bars. The only thing that will lead to a path towards whatever redemption available to you is for you to confess, provide the names of every one else involved in the Dunbar Village crime, seek the forgiveness of the victim, the mercy of the courts, and the grace of God.
God Bless You,
The Blogmother
What I think about Casey Anthony is that she and Augustus Fontaine will eventually end up serving the rest of their lives behind bars one way or the other.
To whoever wrote this, if you truly care about clearing the good name of Mr. Fontaine, I suggest you stop seeking attention on blogs like this one. Why? Because of something called search engine optimization. Google it. So now instead of there being a six articles discussing Mr. Fontaine's alleged role in a horrific gang-rape and home invasion on this blog, there are now seven and they will be more.
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And if the prison or wherever you are offers a literacy program for the love of all things chocolate enroll in it. And no, this isn't a slam against whoever wrote this blog post, but learning to read does have a tendency to elevate people's consciousness. At the very least you have a better chance of being understood.
Wow. I bet that took a lot of restraint on your part. I wonder if the commentator is even going to read all of that, or if it'll be TLDR.
In addition to what Gina wrote about him hiding behind his 3 year old daughter, let me add that if she is NOW 3, that means that she was not yet born (or at the most a newborn) at the time of the Dunbar Village incident.
That was very lame of him to bring her up if he was trying to imply that he could not have participated in that diabolical assault simply because he had a daughter of his own. <_<
Wow. Well, Gus, can I call you "Gus"? I'm going to anyway. I'm not nice and I'm still angry. I hope you die a very painful death and that your daughter is removed from your custody and placed with a family that will actually rear her. It is clear to me that the adults in your life, as well as the adults in your daughter's life aren't worht the flesh they are printed on.
You had the balls to come on to THIS blog, seeking some sirt of sympathy for the fact that you were a juvenile sociopath who got someone pregnant 3 years ago? Please. "F" you and your life. I want you to suffer as much as you made that woman and her son suffer.
I hate you.
Well,this person probably needs to be put away forever.I hear that jails are not in the business of rehab and psychiatric wellness.I hear they somehow manage to make even worse criminals.I don't know how this pathetic creature turned out this way.I can kinda sympathize with it somewhat because the mind of that individual seems extremely disturbed and delayed.But again most jails don't do rehabilitation.And good psychiatric help takes years and costs money that the individual likely does not have.He made need to stay in jail forever but justice for the real victims and preventing others from becoming his future victims is what is most important.
This is not a person. That fool can barely write or spell. He is a sociopath, rapist, despicable animal. I do too hope he dies a slow, painful, agonizing death. It scares me that this ignorant, uneducated, criminal has decided to breed. His poor daughter has a father who is sick, demented, full of rage and has zero respect for women. He'll do something like this again. It's in his nature. Next time, let's all pray he goes to jail!.
No better yet, I hope he suffers the same fate that woman and her son suffered. That would be justice in itself. Of course, this monster has zero sympathy for the victim. It's all about his ignorant behind.
The police down there are losers! We all know if the victim was white, those cops would have hunted this little fool down. Instead he or one of his friends or family members gets to write that non-sense. Sorry, Gina I can barely read that mess. That guy couldn't spell basic words.
I agree that this young "man" should rot in prison all the days of his life. What really hurts me is the BLACK woman who stand behind these kind of black men and women on a daily basis. They know that their flesh and blood or "what ever" is tearing the life out of others, especially black women, and they don't care. I just can't seem to get THAT into my head. How are you a black woman and know people are tageting and hurting folk like you and still not care? Some of us black woman are just as much destroyers of the body, soul and spirt as others. Some of us better realize that there is a GOD and He will repay you and yours for what you do. You may be big and bad today, but you won't be on that day.
Die in a fire, scum.
I am not suprise by this person actions, they are still scum. Blogmother you are very generous in writing a letter to this person. I doubt if they will read your letter. Eventually jail will catch up with them .
SMH. There's so much to say that I don't know what to say. *crickets*
Given the poor spelling/grammar featured in his comment, I wonder what type of life someone like Mr. Fontaine can lead. I hope he is in jail and that he's there for a very long time because I cannot see him making any contribution to the betterment of society. His lack of English skills as well as his propensity to crime before he's even reached his 20s makes me fearful that he is too damaged to be rehabilitated.
Talk about DBR BM. Already feel very sorry for his daughter. Hopefully she can escape from her community and get away from Dunbar.
His grammar probably wouldn't be good at all even if he tried, but it is unfortunately common nowadays for young folks, especially young blacks guys, to type like that on purpose as sort of a layman's shorthand (age of texting) as well as typing like that to purposely express ghetto lingo. I'm sure that he knows that "i" should be capitalized that that the word "that" is not spelled with a "d" (I at least hope). The sad part is that he doesn't recognize the need to at least try and alter this trend when addressing educated people. That is why he will probably never be impressive in a job interview.
He accepts zero responsibility for his own actions, blames others instead, attempts to make himself look like a good guy by introducing his 3-year-old daughter and makes a half-assed comparison to Casey Anthony.
Last I checked, Casey and nearly a dozen other people didn't gang-rape a woman, force her son to participate and then beat them both and pour bleach and other chemicals over them in an attempt to hide evidence.
The way things are going, he's gonna spend the rest of his life sequestered in prison on other charges. I feel sorry for his daughter, as she'll most likely grow up in the same fucked up environment that spawned these people.
Are you high?!...I mean really...What are you smoking Mr. Fontaine because the type of narcotics you're on should be reserved only for people in severe pain, living out their last days in hospices. Knowing demons like you exist add to my anguish. You are what's wrong with the world damn it! Don't you worry about what we think of Casey Anthony you should be more concerned about yourself and your f*#ked example of a life you've led so far and the blood that's on your hands. You're such a follower, so worried about what other people think and who doesn't like you. Did your desire to fit in and be liked cause you to gang rape and torment this woman and her child?! F.Y.I., you'll be alone on judgment day with no support from your peers. You best get down on your knees and repent while you still have time young man. If you must know you and Casey Anthony both define scum of the earth. You & her both are sick narcissistic sorry @ss excuses for human beings and even poorer excuses as parents. If the mother of your child has an iota of common sense that the good Lord gave, then she'll keep that daughter of yours far away from you for her own good. I would pay to unlearn the tragic story of what you did to this woman and her son as you have left a bad taste in my mouth and a sickening feeling in my stomach. You truly disgust me you sorry son of a b*tch!
I applaud you for attempting to establish any kind of dialogue with this person, with being able to take his pathetic attempts at manipulation and turn it on its head, and for not sinking to his level of ridiculousness. You are a better and more controlled person than the average person.
After re-reading the note a couple of times, it's interesting to watch someone not be as smart as they think they are try and pull the wool over the eyes of others, and actually think it will work! It's clear the person didn't really read the information. XD
Everything about that note was basically trying to enforce the "Stand up for me even though I'm a DBR because you are a black woman and that's what you're supposed to do" ridiculousness.
First, the idea that we're supposed to feel sorry for him because of his "run ins" with the law. Rape and murder isn't just a run in, it's someone harming others and being taken to task for it by the law, which is how things work in a society with people who are criminals. But nevermind that, no, you are to understand and sympathize with him, and how dare you think badly of him!
Then there's the whole "What about Casey Anthony?!" and "KKK" idiocy thrown in and it just makes me laugh. First, anyone with two brain cells that had any inkling of the mood when the verdict was read knew that people across the country, regardless of their ethnicity were mad as hell that she was found not guilty. A juror actually went into HIDING afterwards and to my knowledge none have come forward to talk to the press for fear of their safety. And there was pleas for the public not to take the law into their own hands. That sounds nothing like a result that screams, "Everyone was on the side of the pretty white woman!" Regardless of what the jury may have felt, this was not your OJ case: Public opinion was almost unanimously against Anthony.
But...what's really telling about his comment is this: This is a woman who he feels is guilty as sin and got away with murder. So....why not defend the black man who is guilty as sin, since it's not fair that white people who are guilty as sin can get away with everything!
This is the same mentality that has the black community standing up for criminals, deviants, and predators: Because somehow dealing with racism means protecting the interests of scumbags with the same fervor as protecting the intelligent and upwardly mobile law abiding black citizens.
It's one big load of crock. Scum is scum and no decent person would associate with or defend them. I am not interested in the hard knocks of a rapist and murder who is showing all the signs of being a sociopath.
I hope they throw him under the jail.
I think it is absolutely disgusting that before denying that he is a rapist, this individual first and foremost denies that he is Haitian. As if being Haitian is the most important thing to deny here. What, being accused of being Haitian is suddenly worse than being accused of rape? Pure foolishness. It absolutely makes my skin crawl. Shows where his priorities lie.
That was a brilliant and heart felt message.