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A Year in Detention

Posted on | November 18, 2010 | 4 Comments

Because New Jersey is serious about punishing crime:

TRENTON, N.J. — All sex-related charges against a 15-year-old girl accused of selling her 7-year-old stepsister to a group of men and boys for sex at a party have been dropped, prosecutors said Thursday.
The 15-year-old watched as the 7-year-old was raped by as many as seven men and boys in a vacant apartment near the girls’ Trenton home on March 28, police said. As many as a dozen people were at the party in a crime-plagued public housing complex a mile from the dome of the New Jersey statehouse, investigators said.
The teenage girl originally was charged with aggravated sexual assault, criminal restraint, terroristic threats, promoting prostitution and endangering the welfare of a minor . . . [T]he girl pleaded guilty in juvenile court to child endangerment and was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention . . .

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  • http://getalonghome.com/ GAHCindy

    I’m thinking she wouldn’t have gotten off so lightly if she was a he.

  • Joe

    http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/15/brian-aitkens-mistake

    New Jersey is apparently only serious about prosecuting certain crimes.

  • http://wyblog.us/blog Chris Wysocki

    Yeah, this was a big WTF moment when I saw it in the paper this morning. @Joe is right, NJ only cares about certain victims and crimes. That gay kid who jumped off the George Washington Bridge is our state’s cause celebre – every day there’s another “anti-bullying” initiative introduced in his name. Making sure nobody ever hurts another gay kid’s precious widdle feelings is job #1. Stopping the gang-rape of 7 year old girls, not so much.

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