Homeless man arrested for raping “tipsy” man in downtown park
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Donald Mervin Small, 56, was arrested yesterday on a sworn complaint alleging that he raped a man in a downtown park on October 28.
The victim told a Gainesville Police Department officer that he drove downtown in the early morning hours of October 28 with some friends who went to a bar; he said he did not join them because he did not bring his ID card with him. One of his friends told the officer that a man matching Small’s description approached them and that the victim said the man was a friend of his. The friend went to a bar, leaving the victim with the man.
The victim, however, told the officer that although he said the man was his friend, he had only spoken with him once and didn’t even know his name. He said he and the man went for a walk and that he was talkative because he was “tipsy,” having just left a party where he’d had alcoholic beverages.
The two men reached Roper Park, where the man allegedly grabbed the victim’s scarf and ripped it off him. The victim reported that he tried to get the scarf back but was disoriented and confused; he said he remembered being on his back with his pants down, where he pleaded with the man to stop what he was doing and leave him alone. He said the man spoke to him in a calm tone, telling him to calm down and relax.
The victim said the man anally penetrated him and that it felt like it lasted “10 minutes.” He said he managed to get away and make his way to the back entrance of a club, where a security guard helped find his friend. The friend notified a nearby GPD officer that the victim had been sexually assaulted.
A detective canvassed the downtown area, looking for a man matching the description provided by the victim and his friend. Staff at St. Francis House suggested it could be Small, and the victim identified Small as his attacker in a photo line-up.
Small has 22 felony convictions (one violent) and 18 misdemeanor convictions (one violent). He has served nine prison sentences, all but one for offenses in Alachua County. Bail has been set at $200,000.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Damn! He put that mofo in the buck and took his booty. It’s some sick mofos in Gainesville.
How did he allowed that man to lay him on his back for 10 minutes? What was the look on the cops face when the guys told him what happened? 😅
You a stupid fu%¥ to find humor in this matter. You’re a clown for real…Circus freak!
Nah….😂😂😂😂
Good Gawd!!!
Why is this man out of jail?
Small has 22 felony convictions (one violent) and 18 misdemeanor convictions (one violent). He has served nine prison sentences, all but one for offenses in Alachua County. Bail has been set at $200,000.
Why??? Because scummy lawyers in Tallahassee made our laws years ago.
People have done way worse and have been let out usually to commit the same or worse offense then before the man that killed that girl on the bike ride he had kidnapped and raped a woman and told her he was going to kill her , same thing she was on a bike and he knocked her off same as one he killed but she got away and he was let out but this time he did kill
Small has been a menace to Alachua County for years but yet he keeps getting released to prey on the county citizens. This doesn’t sound like the complete story here between the two but Small has no business on the streets.
They probably let him out again soon too
What City Commission drinking bar was this? Was it in their party zone with no boundaries or consequences?
I Sounds Consequences Something Ain’t Adding Up Like 2+2=3?????
Exactly smh
Raper Park
Tipsy????
How lovely, just as our new downtown Entertainment District gets started, too … and right inside the Duckpond where almost all the voters who elected our dear commissioners reside.
Yeah!!! Another demonicrat libtard shthole!! 😞
You make no sense Fool!!
But only republicans would do that
The only surefire way to prevent this from happening again is to make sure Small loses it all.
Mayor Harvey Ward and the city commission majority, over the years, keep dumping tons of taxpayer’s money into their so-called VIBRANT DOWNTOWN – where they allow drinking in the streets – where violent crime and aggressive panhandling continues to grow – appear to be willing to drive our Public Health & Safety into the ground like they did with our utility/GRU.
Well, next time this type of activity will be taking place at one of the motels the County purchased. This sounds fishy, but the Booty Bandit can’t break his prison habits. Probably needs counseling.
He needs life imprisonment.
Wow,wtf. Sick a$$ dude right there. Hopefully this time his prison sentence isn’t “Small”.
See you later penetrator
For all you little gangsters out there. Beware, this guy ain’t the only one who likes booty. There is no shortage of them in prison where you are going to be if you don’t change your ways. 🤣
This human is a known gapeist.
Ask our state attorney Mr Brian Kramer, who managed to personally stop anyone from running against him. He is given more than enough power and funds to put this predators away but won’t or just request the record of his prosecution of this and others
It’s a dam shame how he raped this young man he shouldn’t have been around that dam booty bandit he’s been in prison all them times he definitely loves ass smh i feel bad for the young man he could have hiv just sickening I hope he gets wht he deserves life way he can get all the booty he want and someone to rape his ass🤦🏽♀️🤷🏼♀️💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Sorry, that would have sobered me up way before penetration!
U got that right
So Gainesville has its own FLEECE JOHNSON!
Nice name from Ric Rush
“Just calm down and relaaaaax…” Damn that victim must’ve been reeeeealy drunk. A dude saying some *ish like that to him, while he is on his back, should’ve sobered his ass all the way up, instantly!
I always have a weapon, knife, mace that would have taken care of it permanently. No matter how drunk I was
Yeah, he been to prison that many times, he is a booty bandit, sick as hell give that clown LWO…
I would have to be more than a little tipsy for someone to take my booty.
I’m still trying to figure out HOW he raped him in the behind if he was on his back ?? I thought he would have been on his stomach and I could understand BUT I’m a woman so ?? I guess only a dude would be able to explain this 🤦♀️. Regardless, the rapist should get life without parole…He feels right at home there evidently
Let’s hook up sometime, have a few drinks, take things from there. 😉
Have u done anal b4
This is so awful,this rapist is a menace to the society and needs to be taken off the streets for people safety and he has already done a lot of felonies because it sounds like he is a complete monster and next he will be messing with children so please get him off the streets
Something should be done but alot of times they go to prison and rape weaker guys in there too so what is the punishment? He’s been to prison 9 times already it’s obvious it’s something he loves in there🤔. I think rapist deserves a different fate than just prison. Death ☠️ would be a suggestion
Its crazy to that a article about rape has a advertisement about Touch, the art of healing. Just saying
Whatever happened to innocent until proven or should I say found guilty? I’m not victim shaming but why would you LIE to your “friends ” to say you know a complete stranger? And there was no one in ears sounds to hear anything? A rapist is going to speak to you calmly? I don’t know. I have been raped and it definitely went a lot differently. And if this did occur then he should definitely spend time in prison.