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No DNA Found In Trenton Gang Rape Case

2010_03_trnaj.jpg Prosecutors say that preliminary forensics tests found no traces of DNA on a seven-year-old who was allegedly gang raped by five males—two adults and three juveniles— in a Trenton, NJ housing complex. A lawyer for one suspect told the Times of Trenton, "Of course there's no semen because there was no rape. The whole story was fabricated." The case drew a lot of attention due to the depressing details (the victim was allegedly sold for sex by her stepsister) and outrage from local officials, but there have been concerns that confessions were coerced. Now, the prosecutor will no longer try the juveniles as adults and asked that the adult suspects' bails be reduced from $500,000 and $250,000 to $75,000.

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  • theLtrain

    We'll probably never know what happened in that apartment that day but yeah, all guilty of crimes one way or another I'm sure, so even if they didn't do this they're morally serving the time for something else. Who cares. Fuck em.

  • Billiamsburg

    well let's lock them up anyway and if they're innocent of any crimes their god will come save them.

  • Mizuki

    Has no one ever heard of "pull and pray"?

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    not in a case of a 7 year old.

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