Local News in Brief : Gang Rape Conviction

A reputed gang member was convicted Thursday in the gang rape of a mother of three whose hand, foot and breasts had to be amputated after her assailants threw a burning Christmas tree on her.

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Alfred Scott, 24, guilty on 12 counts, including attempted murder, kidnaping and rape in concert. Scott could be sent to state prison for more than 60 years at sentencing April 14, Deputy Dist. Atty. Anne Ingalls said.

Scott is the last of five defendants convicted in the South-Central Los Angeles case. Two 18-year-old men were convicted last June and sentenced to 34 and 69 years in state prison. Two other defendants, ages 14 and 15, were convicted in Juvenile Court and sentenced to the California Youth Authority.

Prosecutors said the victim, then 26, was dragged into an alley on Jan. 9, 1986, raped, then thrown into a trash dumpster and a burning Christmas tree tossed on top of her.

“I kept hollering, ‘Let me go.’ I was calling for help,” the woman testified from a wheelchair earlier this week. “(Then) someone said, ‘We gotta kill her. She knows me.’ ”