The father of an 18-year-old girl claimed that five teens approached them as they were in Osborn park, flashed a gun to run him off and then took turns raping his daughter. Investigators found that story to be a lie.
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Their faces were all over the Internet. Five teens accused of raping an 18-year-old woman inside a Brooklyn park on Jan. 9. They all were arrested and charged with the crime. Now that charges against them have been dropped, an attorney for one of the teens is lashing out at the prosecutor for the way the case was handled.
“What’s troubling is they’re electing not to prosecute the father for the heinous act of incest or the complaining witness for falsely reporting the incident. … My client was charged. There’s no way to wipe out his or the other teens’ names from all over the Internet,” attorney Spencer Leeds told the New York Daily News.
Last week, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced that the teens wouldn’t be charged in the crime but that the actual story was “disturbing and troubling.” According to Thompson, the teen’s story that the walked up on the father having sex with his daughter in the park turned out to be true. According to reports, two of the teens were reportedly also had consensual sex with the woman.
Leeds claims that before the father’s false accusations that his daughter was raped by the teens, they were “school boys leading anonymous lives.” The Daily News notes that the NYPD even released video surveillance footage of the teens at a convenience store before the alleged attack.
The DA’s office had said last week that that the father and the victim had become uncooperative in the investigation and that they had no plans to charge the accuser or her father with any crimes.
“Now [the teens] have to get their lives together,” Leeds told the Daily News, “meanwhile the father gets to remain anonymous. That’s what’s troubling.”
Read more at the New York Daily News.
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