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https://www.indystar.com/gcdn/-mm-/5367a8ddcfb9c1f4d81b7884d83903b596f09e0d/c=15-0-465-600/local/-/media/2015/12/18/Indianapolis/Indianapolis/635860591026422645-clarkryan.jpg?width=300&height=400&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp

A family's home was burglarized, a father was hit in the head and a mother was raped, repeatedly. All while their three children were in the home.

The horrifying details of a 2013 home invasion and sexual assault on the Far Eastside escaped media attention for two years until this week, when a jury in Marion Superior Court found one of the suspects guilty of more than 20 crimes.

Ryan Clark, 21, and two other men broke into the family's home around 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 18, 2013, according to court documents. Armed with handguns, they forced the mother to a laundry room, where the men took turns raping her.

The crimes happened just a month before two other groups of victims — a family and a young couple — on Indianapolis' Far Northside endured similarly brutal attacks by other men. The home invasions on East 79th Street and North Spring Mill Road in
October 2013 generated headlines and shook residents in nearby neighborhoods.

More recently, two other men accused of killing a young pastor's wife Nov. 10 — a slaying that also garnered media attention — were also accused of robbing and raping another woman in her apartment a week earlier.

Court records reveal similarly terrifying details for the family that lives on Wysong Drive on the Far Eastside.

Officers were called to the family's home shortly after midnight on Sept. 19, 2013. The woman told police she was sitting in her home's back porch when she felt the barrel of a gun on the back of her head. Three men, armed with handguns and wearing dark
clothes and bandannas, surrounded the woman, according to court documents. One man guarded her while the two others gathered the woman's husband and three children, ages 16, 16 and 7.

The men demanded credit cards, ordered the family to remove their clothes and ransacked their belongings, according to court records. Then they took the mother to an adjacent laundry room and sexually assaulted her.

One of the men, whom the woman called the leader, later ordered her to take a shower to wash DNA off her body, she told police. The woman complied, but when she opened the shower door to grab a towel, the leader got angry and punched her near the nose,
according to court documents.

The same man poured bleach over her as the woman screamed for him to stop, she told police.

Later, she was told to walk to the room where her family was. The men then drove off in the woman's car, taking the family's TV, computer and other electronics. The family stayed still for about 10 minutes before calling police.

Several months later, in June 2014, Clark and Shayne Thompson, 21, were charged with more than 20 crimes, including multiple counts of rape, criminal deviate conduct, criminal confinement and battery.

By then, the two men already had been arrested and accused of robbing a gas station clerk at gunpoint.

The woman told police one of the men who raped her had a mark on his lower right hip. Clark has a scar on the same spot from an old bullet wound, according to court records. She also identified Clark from a photo array.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2015/12/18/horrifying-home-invasion-included-sexual-assault-mother-children-home/77570824/

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