Thursday, June 4, 2009

4 teens charged as adults in locker room sexual assault case


By Latoyia Kimbrough

According to an article on the CNN webstie four teenage boys are being charged as audlts on 4 counts each of sexual battery after they raped and sodomized a 13-year old boy with sticks. The attacks occurred mulitple times over a two month period and there were many witnesses to the attacks but no one including the victim reported it. The incidents were finally reported when the victim and the boys got into a fight the gym teacher broke it up and then ask why they were fighting. The victim stated he was tired of them getting on him and then the school led an investigation into the fight. The defendants admitted that they had in fact sexually assualted the victim when they were questioned. The victim did not aknowledge the attacks until he was questioned about them. The defense attorney is arguing that these are good boys that have never been in trouble with the law. If convicted on all four counts these boys could face up to 120 year in prision.

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