If that ain't rape then I don't know what it is.

11 fucking years old. Damn!

This is really Shame to us. Why we can't ensure a child security? Really shame..............

the teens and men who had sex with her.

is that, even if she was somehow "enticing" young men at age 11, those guys must have been pretty sick to begin with to be sexually turned on by a child.

Even if she was "promiscuous"...

Does not the rapist have a will of his own? I mean, if the rapist cannot handle his own actions because of an 11 year old, he needs to be locked up... twice. Being promiscuous is not a crime. Rape is.

It does not matter if it is consensual when it comes to an 11 year old victim and as the article pointed out some of the accused being 21 years of age. I am sorry for what occurred to this young woman and it is more than a black eye of those police officers and the justice system. I have worked in law enforcement and my step-father is a retired chief of police (in my experience the accused would have been arrested, charged, and more than likely sentenced to prison terms for their actions) so this type of atrocious complacency and out right refusal to enforce the law truly enrages me. This is a very sad and disgraceful excuse for police work and why reform is desperately needed.

and after a small amount of digging, my suspicions were confirmed.

Danielle is black.

I didn't dig any further, but I still betcha a paycheck what everyone else's race was...

And that's the real story.

People overestimate African American children's age, and people of color are seen as hyper-sexual. Racist stereotypes.

Black kids are too often treated like adults in our legal system, whether as perpetrators or victims

Rapists and police alike.

Disgusting.

who is innocent. Certainly Fracked up.

she had been raped and sodomized by multiple assailants.....an ELEVEN year old. This story literally makes me physically ill. Those evil f-ing rapists and cops.

D.C.?

per the linked WaPo article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/a-seven-year-search-for-justice/2015/03/12/b1cccb30-abe9-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html

maybe their sugar was low and they needed a donut to think correctly.

The cops knew the rapists...I'll even go so far as to suggest several if not all, are or were informants for the police in the past!

Why that theory, based on the fact that the cops interrogated an 11 year old child and made a concerted effort to trap her in a lie...sounds like they were trying to protect someone...or the cops were completely incompetent...and in DC that isn't a far stretch!

I am not sure if they were informants, or if they were related to a cop, or in some other way connected to a cop or a prominent family, but I have no doubt that they were trying to protect someone.

This is the main reason that many victims don't come forward.

When you have an eleven year old victim, the issue of consent just does not come into play.

Was one of the assailants a RELATIVE of an officer?? Was one of the assailants a police officer? This appears to be an extreme cover-up designed to insulate the assailants in an overtly illegal manner.

Police have to ask about consent when an adult reports a rape - consenting sexual activity is legal between adults, and thus they must establish that a crime (non-consensual sex) occurred.

But consent is not a legitimate investigative issue with an eleven year old victim. To establish that a crime occurred, one must merely establish that sexual activity occurred - which in this case was clearly established - and then find the adult participants.

There could be some kind of cover up, but sadly I think that this is a lot more common than we would like to believe.

I think the police officers deserve official punishment for this one.

So sick of this shit.

but I know in my state (MO) this is beyond statutory. She was under 14 which, consent or not, is hardcore prison time for many years. Under 14 here does not allow consent and if the other person involved is 21 or over then consent must be at age 17.

(The "under 14" part was a big deal because of the Daisy Coleman case a couple of years ago.)

She wasn't of age to consent so how could any of it have been a false report? I don't care if she took off all of her clothes, propped herself spread-eagle on a card table and handed out tickets for admission. She was eleven years old which means she was not able to give consent.

It is also very unlikely that she did even apparently consent to anal and vaginal intercourse, and of course she could not legally consent to it.

This incident should not be allowed to drop. I believe Congress has the mandate to oversee DC - perhaps it is time for us to contact our representatives and make sure it is not. This is an outrage.

It's insane how this was allowed to happen. No respect for female life-make that a black, underage female. Any alone was bad enough but all together seems to be a guarantee of a lack of justice for the victim.

Well, we are told in the article that troubled kids are "brought in" to the penal system as a way of getting them additional services, but can that be done on a basis that seems entirely illegal to me??

This is one of the most haunting and deeply disturbing incidents I have ever encountered. I cannot stop thinking about it, and the implications.

two rape kits - two medical affirmations of an assault.

It would be bad enough to get a "there isn't enough evidence to take to trial". But to file charges against her at 12. To push her into an Alford plea?

Sounds like a figurative third gang-rape occurred.

...two balls and the stick too.

But "cruel and unusual punishment" is against our law.

It's the price of civilization that we don't always follow our first instinct.

They're gonna come out in Australia soon at this rate.

Scum-sucking shitweasels have more integrity than kkkops.

She's a child.

It's automatically statutory rape.

And these fucking pigs deserve to go to hell.

Forcing her into an Alford plea at 12? For being raped?

The lunatics have broken out of the asylum. Imagine if we had a truly educated populace that is capable of critical thinking.

Get me off this planet.







It's things like this, and the gopee blackmail initiative against women that make me start thinking about ......things that would get me in trouble.

^^this stuff^^ makes me wonder seriously about our humanity toward others. Empathy is dead.

An 11 or 12 year old cannot consent. She's a child. They arrested her, not the cretins who raped her. Something's rotten where she lives. Rotten to the core.

places like that need a good cleaning, a couple of fire-hoses could get things off to a good start.

false premises

She was charged and convicted of filing a false report.

she was only 12 at the time

can't read this shit anymore - children suffering at the hands of bigots. yes, it has been going on forever and we know it exists and we must do what we can to stop them. the doj's report on ferguson has opened another pandora's box of horror and exposed so much vileness. make your votes count. we have to get the vote out - for all.

I agree that the cops were wrong, but then the entire system went bizzaro here.

Children's services, the prosecutors office and whatever judge was involved to convict her of filing a false report with two positive rape kits should all be removed.


And the males were all of true legal age of "late teens to 21"? With and 11 year old in any circumstances is rape.

This is a terrible deed.

I was gang raped when I was twelve. My parents didn't believe me. My peers called me a slut in the hallways of school. It wrecked my life! These cops are just covering up for the rapists they are themselves. Assholes, all rapists are uncontrollable assholes!

Those cops, prosecutors, judges deserve a big old gang of slaps and a screaming at from their mothers!

The poor girl, I feel so deeply for her. I know the trauma she suffers. I hope she has a really good therapist. She needs it. Therapy helps a lot.

What a horrible thing.

I won't come right out and advocate violence, but these cops........................

Thanks for the compassion. It was horrible. I went from a creative fun smart outgoing person into a ball of mess overnight. Much deep soul searching and therapy have helped tremendously.

Bet they wouldn't think it was due to their promiscuity. I am so fucking outraged right now, I can hardly see through the red glare.

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And some of the men were described as adults.
So behavior of the police is really hard to understand here.
She couldn't consent by law.

So, where are all of those "good cops" to step in an prosecute these child-rapists enablers?

"Good" prosecutors?

No where to be see, OF COURSE.

REferring to a child like that should not be accepted in any job.

around it. WTF is wrong with people? Is there no decency left in this world?

That poor little girl, I can't even imagine what kind of challenges she is going to face as an adult for what has happened to her. People slip into horrible mental illness having gone through less than what happened to her. I hope she gets the help she needs and I hope she is a strong individual.

Why would they leave the location out, or did I miss it?

DC.

may these bastards receive everything they deserve.

I am so mad I could and probably would punch one if I had the chance. However, the problem goes much higher up and is much wider spread. The person at the top of this steaming pile is a judge that should be defrocked or whatever they do when they knock the sob off the bench.

no matter what the child is up to.

disgusting.


The local news in DC also has pics of her kids as she's a teen mom.

the local news has followed up to see how she is now, and it wasn't good. She's had depression and other difficulties since the rape.

so whatever pics the local news has, she was ELEVEN when this happened. (eleven-year olds are not teens)

so she certainly could be a teen mom by now.

But, that's not the point. 11 year olds have no ability to consent, even if they may be acting out. It was the responsibility of everyone else to avoid sexual contact with her-- that's a big part of adulthood. Older guys who see her as convenient for quick sex should pay big time.

she is now a teen mom? the poster seemed to be implying that that was somehow a vindication of the multiple rapes.

That is, to act like an adult human being rather than as a predatory rapist.



I might have missed it in the article, but I didn't see the age of her attackers listed. Regardless, "young men" seems to imply that that they were old enough to be held responsible for the rape, if the police had acted like police instead of like victim-blaming child-rape-enablers.

and the ages of the attackers were 16-21, and they should have been held responsible. Yet no one has.

you clearly did not understand my post at all

of her being a teen mom, as though that has ANY relevance to the multiple rapes when she was eleven.

she might not be a teen mom right now at 18. Her kids were born a few years ago.

But you're right in assuming that I'm probably a bad person...just in case.

bearing on her becoming a mother so young. she stated so herself in several of the articles I read elsewhere.


no, I don't think you are a bad person, just in case.

and that in no way excuses what happened to her or making any judgement-- just sayin' that she could be a mom now.

the rape happened in 2009. She's local to DC, so it's been in the news here about how unfairly she was treated back then.

“Last fall, after inquiries from The Washington Post, the department launched new investigations into the cases and the way they were handled, according to the Bests and a law enforcement officer familiar with the matter,” Walters writes. The Bests are still hoping that the police will charge the young men who their daughter says raped her.

they never find any wrongdoing, even if there was a lot of it.

Each time I prepare a reply and upon due consideration realize that reply would get a vote of seven zip on the alert. Then I leave it and wait. I re-read the thread, and my anger surges, and again I have to walk away before I give reason for a hide.

However, suffice to say I find this absolutely infuriating.

Just sayin'.

The girl was eleven, the boys late teens to twenty-one! As far as I know, that's STATUTORY RAPE and it should be prosecuted as such, and it doesn't matter if the girl was promiscuous.

We truly are living in a hell on earth when a child, a baby for god's sake, is punished for being raped.

This strong young woman deserves justice

She didn't scream out loud enough when she was raped, hence made it consensual, and a criminal for filing a police report for rape.

I didn't realize that the age of consent was 11 years in that state.

DC. And the age of consent in DC is not 11!

I would rain down hell on anyone who possessed the audacity to call her "promiscuous." Monsters.

Goddamn, sometimes I don't have the words ...