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Murder and rape - fact or fiction?
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Murder and rape - fact or fiction?

Gary Younge in Baton Rouge

There were two babies who had their throats slit. The seven-year-old
girl who was raped and murdered in the Superdome. And the corpses laid out amid the excrement in the convention centre.

In a week filled with dreadful scenes of desperation and anger from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina some stories stood out.

But as time goes on many remain unsubstantiated and may yet prove to be apocryphal.

New Orleans police have been unable to confirm the tale of the raped
child, or indeed any of the reports of rapes, in the Superdome and
convention centre...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1563470,00.html
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