An 18-year-old girl who claimed she was gang raped
by five teenage boys while she was with her father in a park has admitted to
having consensual sex with her father in early January.
The unnamed girl originally claimed that she was
with her 39-year-old father in the park drinking at about 9pm on January 7 when
the group of teens approached them.
She said the boys ordered the father to leave and
then they raped her.Subsequently, Denzel Murray, 14, Shaquell Cooper and
Ethan Phillip, both 15, and Onandi Brown and Travis Beckford, both 17, were
charged.
But the charges have now been dropped after she
admitted to having consensual sex with them and her father on Wednesday.
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said: ‘The
complainant, as well as her father, provided multiple inconsistent accounts to
NYPD Detectives and to experienced Special Victims prosecutors about important
material facts in this case.
‘The complainant has recanted her allegations of
forcible sexual assault and the existence of a gun, and she does not wish to
pursue criminal charges against any of the defendants.’
Originally, the girl had told investigators that
when her father returned to the scene and hurled a bottle at the them, one of
them pulled out a handgun and ordered him to leave.
Police Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at the
time, the young woman gave a very credible report, adding: ‘She had physical
injuries at the time. She was traumatized.’
Her father tried to flag down two police officers
and told them he feared his daughter was being murdered and was ‘hysterical’.
The young woman claimed she had bipolar disorder and
post-traumatic stress disorder, but was not taking any medicine.
After the suspects’ were charged, two of them told
investigators they believed the sexual encounter was consensual, police said.
They claimed the young woman was having sex with the
man,who turned out to be her father, in the park before he staggered away from
the scene, leaving his daughter alone with the teens.
One of the boys allegedly asked the father: ‘Can we
have some of that?’
Thompson said that he now hopes the young woman will
‘get all the support she needs going forward.’
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