Gang Injustice
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 6th, 2008 4:28 am by HL
Gang Injustice
On Friday, California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office announced that it found insufficient evidence to file criminal charges in what has become known as “the De Anza rape case.” The story began when a very intoxicated 17-year-old girl allegedly was gang-raped at a March 2007 party at the home of a De Anza College baseball player. Brown’s review supports last year’s decision by Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr not to prosecute any of the nine males present in the room. Politically, Carr’s refusal to press charges has not been popular. Lauren Breayans, Lauren Chief Elk and April Grolle — three soccer players who say they saw the girl being sexually assaulted and brought her to the hospital — issued a statement voicing their disappointment “in the entire criminal justice system. The message seems to be, if you get an underage girl drunk enough, you can get away with rape.”