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Two of the five accused teens who were arrested and charged in the alleged gang rape of a 18-year-old woman.
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Five Brooklyn teens accused of raping an 18-year-old girl last month in a New York park have had their charges dismissed after prosecutors say that the girl involved in the alleged assault recanted her story, and admitted that there was no gun.
And the actual story, a story the teens told police when they were arrested, that the father was in the park having sex with his daughter, was true.
“The complainant, as well as her father, provided multiple inconsistent accounts to NYPD Detectives and to experienced Special Victims prosecutors about important material facts in this case,” Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson said in a statement viewed by the New York Daily News.
“The complainant has recanted her allegations of forcible sexual assault and the existence of a gun, and she does not wish to pursue criminal charges against any of the defendants. She also refuses to cooperate with any prosecution against her father, who was engaging in sexual conduct with her.”
According to the Daily News, the girl’s father told police that he and his daughter were in the Brownsville’s Osborn Playground on Jan. 9 when the five teens approached. The father told police that one of the teens pulled a gun and told the father to “Get the f–k out of here.” The father fled and flagged down police reporting the assault. The father claimed that the teens took turns raping his daughter.
Days later, cops arrested Denzel Murray, 14; Shaquell Cooper, 15; Ethan Phillip, 15; Onandi Brown, 17 and Travis Beckford, 17, the Daily News reports.
The teens claimed from the beginning that the father was having sex with his daughter in the park when the stumbled upon them and that the sex that they had with the girl was consensual.
According to the Daily News, both the father and daughter failed to identify any of the first four suspects from a police lineup.
“We are thankful to the District Attorney’s office for the thoughtful and prudent time they took to fully investigate this case,” Murray’s attorney, Ken Montgomery told the Daily News.
“They did what the NYPD, City Hall and so-called community leaders didn’t do, they didn’t judge these young men, and investigated what actually happened.”
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