Brooklyn prosecutor drops charges in park rape case

[aaronleland]

Brooklyn prosecutor drops charges in park rape case

NEW YORK -- A district attorney said Wednesday he was dropping criminal charges against five teenage boys who were accused of gang-raping a young woman in a Brooklyn playground, after the alleged victim recanted her story.

The collapse of the case was no surprise after a series of revelations that challenged the woman's initial story that she'd been attacked by a group of boyswho drove off her father with a gun to get her alone.

Cellphone video snippets had emerged, showing the woman smiling, with her clothes partially removed, during the Jan. 7 encounter. More disturbingly, the boys told police that when they encountered the woman she was having sex with her father in the Brooklyn park.

I remember when this story first came out, and our resident board racists were quick to condemn 5 black kids for raping a woman. Turns out that not only was the sex consensual, but the boys had to accept sloppy seconds from the father.