So to recap:
- This case is being handled like every other sexual assault cases where the victim and accused are juveniles
- The accused attackers are not Syrian
- No indication the accused are illegal aliens.
According to those officials, three boys were involved, ages 7, 10 and 14, and the alleged victim was a 5-year-old girl. The boys are from Sudan and Iraq; none are Syrian. They are being held at a juvenile detention facility. Officials suspect the boys have been in the United States fewer than two years, but their refugee status wasnāt immediately clear to the police chief.
There were no adults involved, Loebs said, the boys didnāt have a knife, and the incident wasnāt a āgang-rapeā instigated by the oldest boy.
āAll those involved are juveniles, and the older one didnāt touch the victim in any way,ā Loebs said. Only one person is alleged to have touched the victim, said the prosecutor, though he declined to elaborate.
Show us the report and prove your lies are true, idiot..
You are always such a bag of wind.
I was quoting from the local newspaper- and am glad to do so again. Feel free to provide what you consider to be more reliable information;
UPDATED: Story of Syrian refugees raping Idaho girl is wrong, prosecutor says
Prosecutor: āThere were no Syrians involved ... there was no gang-rapeā
No Syrians have been resettled to Twin Falls, officials say
TWIN FALLS
Authorities are denying reports that Syrians gang-raped a child at knife-point in a Twin Falls apartment complex earlier this month, saying the false claims are being spread to incite anti-refugee sentiments.
āThere were no Syrians involved, there was no knife involved, there was no gang-rape,ā Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs said Monday morning.
Investigators and the prosecutor were quick to dismiss nearly all those claims Monday. Loebs said he didnāt want to āfan the flames of anti-Syrian refugee peopleā but suspects the false reports are the work of a local group opposed to refugee resettlement who hoped to stir up trouble by claiming the incident involved Syrian refugees who committed a violent sexual assault.
āThere is a small group of people in Twin Falls County whose life goal is to eliminate refugees, and thus far they have not been constrained by the truth,ā Loebs said. āThey have not been constrained by the truth in the past, and I donāt expect them to be constrained by the truth in the future.ā
An incident did occur, Loebs said, and two juveniles have been charged after authorities obtained video shot on a cellphone. But the details of the case donāt match whatās being reported by anti-refugee groups, the prosecutor said.
The criminal cases against those juveniles have been sealed, as is customary when children are charged. Although prosecutors and police are barred from discussing certain details in sealed juvenile cases, Loebs laid out the basics in an interview Monday with the Times-News. And Twin Falls Police Chief Craig Kingsbury briefed the public on the incident at a City Council meeting later in the evening, saying he wanted to clear up falsehoods circulating on social media.
According to those officials, three boys were involved, ages 7, 10 and 14, and the alleged victim was a 5-year-old girl. The boys are from Sudan and Iraq; none are Syrian. They are being held at a juvenile detention facility. Officials suspect the boys have been in the Uniteds States fewer than two years, but their refugee status wasnāt immediately clear to the police chief.
There were no adults involved, Loebs said, the boys didnāt have a knife, and the incident wasnāt a āgang-rapeā instigated by the oldest boy.
āAll those involved are juveniles, and the older one didnāt touch the victim in any way,ā Loebs said. Only one person is alleged to have touched the victim, said the prosecutor, though he declined to elaborate.
The police chief also said there is no evidence to support claims the suspectsā fathers high-fived or praised the boys for committing the alleged assault, as has been reported on anti-refugee websites.
The prosecutor received a report Thursday from police. Further refuting claims made in the stories online that police bungled the investigation or tried to cover it up, Loebs said the police investigated the incident thoroughly, interviewed everyone who needed to be and followed proper protocols.
The police chief told the public the victimās health and safety were the departmentās first priority, and apprehending the suspects was the second ā regardless of eitherās ethnicity or religious beliefs.
Loebs said the College of Southern Idaho Refugee Center, which oversees refugee resettlement in the Magic Valley, did not resettle the boys involved and that the program has āabsolutely nothing to do with this.
