An alleged peeping Tom remains in the intensive care unit after reportedly being assaulted with a tree branch, NewsChannel5 reported. <br /><br />Officials said Mario Russo, 44, was attacked after he was spotted outside a bedroom window wearing his pants around his ankles and watching a 5-year-old girl who was sleeping in a unit at the Bunker Ridge Apartments. <br /><br /><br />Russo was reportedly hiding in bushes. <br /><br /><br />Police said after he was discovered a group of six people, include the girl's mother, aunt and their boyfriends attacked him and brutally beat him for more than an hour. <br /><br /><br />The girl's mother, Stacy Umstott, 28; her aunt, Athena Lemieux, 20; Brandon Breedon, 21; Nicholas Phipps, 21; and Khald Arafat, 34; and a 15-year-old are in police custody. They face felonious assault and rape charges. Murder charges could be filed if Russo dies. <br /><br /><br />The girl's aunt admitted to sexually assaulting Russo with a tree branch, police said. <br /><br /><br />The incident was caught on tape. <br /><br /><br />Meanwhile, police said that citizens should not take matters into their own hands <br /><br /><br />"To take matters into their own hands like they did was just way, way beyond reason," North Royalton Detective Jay Drake said.
<br /><br />Jinx