A 73-year-old Loris woman who was severely beaten last week showed up at separate court hearings Tuesday for the two boys accused of assaulting her.
The two teenagers are charged with assaulting Rose Powell last Wednesday and stealing her car.
As a result of the hearings, both boys will remain in jail for the time being. And if Rose Powell has anything to do with it, they'll stay there for a long time.
At 17 years old, Travis Jones has been in front of a judge a few times before.
Just last month, in fact, he was charged with criminal domestic violence.
This time, the charges are assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and strong armed robbery in connection with the assault on Rose Powell.
She was there for Jones' hearing, in which the judge set bond at $100,000.
Powell was also in the courtroom for a detention hearing for the other defendant, a 15-year-old juvenile.
"'Cause I want to let him know that I am a fighter," Rose said.
Powell is in constant pain from her injuries. She has a broken jaw, can't eat solid food and rarely gets out of her wheelchair.
"I can walk a little piece, but I'm scared, I'm having dizzy spells," Powell told NewsChannel 15
Still, Powell and her daughter are there for every hearing, for both young men.
"I really wish that these guys is put away for good because this isn't the first incident," said Rose's daughter Theresa Steely.
In the 15-year-old's hearing, the judge ruled that he will stay in detention at the Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia for at least another ten days.
He's had prior run-ins with the law too, so the deputy solicitor will ask that he stay in detention for even longer.
"Because of the nature of the charges and the fact that he blatantly violated probation and electronic monitoring when these charges occurred," said Deputy Solicitor Carolina Fox.
At the 15-year-old's next hearing, Powell won't just have to sit and listen, she'll be able to take the stand and testify.
And she wants to tell her story to make sure the young men she says attacked her and stole her car don't get out anytime soon.
"If God's justice is done, I feel like that they will be sent off where they can't do something else to anyone else," she said.
Police recovered Powell's car. But in one more little indignity, she can't drive it because she says the two defendants still have her car keys.
The next hearing for the juvenile defendant will be May 18th.
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