Teenage girl and father who claimed she was gang raped in Brooklyn park are lying, says lawyer after they fail to pick suspects from line up
- Five teenagers accused of gang raping 18-year-old girl in a Brooklyn park
- Girl and father said to be drinking together on the night of alleged attack
- They claim the boys drove father away at gunpoint, took turns raping her
- Suspects said father was having sex with the girl when they first arrived
- Teens identified as Denzel Murray, 14, Shaquell Cooper and Ethan Phillip, both 15, and Onandi Brown, 17
A lawyer defending one of the five teenage boys accused of gang raping an 18-year-old girl in a Brooklyn park has dismissed her allegations as a total lie.
Spencer Leeds, representing 17-year-old suspect Onandi Brown, said she and her father, who was with her the night of the alleged attack, failed to pick any of the first four suspects from a police lineup.
The alleged victim and her father said the teenagers approached them at the park, scared him away at gunpoint and took turns raping her.
But the suspects have claimed the father was having sex with her when they arrived - and two said the sex they had with her was consensual.
Four of the defendants - Onandi Brown, 17, Denzel Murray, 14, and Shaquell Cooper and Ethan Phillip, both 15 - appeared in court on Tuesday.
They have been charged with rape, criminal sex act, sexual abuse and other charges. They deny the allegations.
The fifth suspect, Travis Beckford, 17, was taken into custody yesterday on similar charges.
His classmates were shocked at the allegations, telling the New York Daily News: 'Travis wouldn't - trust me. It was probably his friends. Travis is mad sweet.'
Police examined three of the boys' cellphones yesterday after one of them claimed to have footage of the woman smiling and laughing during the encounter.
The unverified 10 second long video described by Murray's lawyer was allegedly recorded by Ethan Phillip's brother.
The brother said the footage showed the woman sitting naked from the waist down and talking to a young man, who allegedly asked for her consent to have sex.
Authorities were told the attack began Thursday night as she and her 39-year-old father drank beer at Osborn Playground in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The two were drunk at the time of the alleged attack, officials said.
Mayor Bill De Blasio was incensed that the police made arrests since they youtes invovled could have been his son. He is expected to offer a multi-million dollar settlement in apology while the police officers involved were suspended pending dismissal from the force.
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We watched the latest Jesse Stone episode (2015) Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise Friday night on Hallmark's Movies and Mysteries, and found it to be one of the best in the series of nine. Heck, they're all good. The banter back and forth, a Parker hallmark, was present, fun and a fitting tribute to the big man himself.
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I enjoyed them as well although I didn't think Tom Selleck would have been the guy I would have picked to be Jesse Stone. I think he would have been much better as Spenser. I mean he is a big guy. Jesse Stone is always described as a wiry short stop type. Someone shorter for sure.
You know who I always imagined as Jesse Stone? William H. Macy.
I know right?
We caught two great Hallmark Movies last night that I had taped.
"The Memory Book" which could have been called the "Mammary Book." Just because Adrienne Barbeau was in it. I mean she didn't show off the girls because she plays an old lady in it. Because she is an old lady. But still. It stars the cute chick who plays Little Red Riding Hood in "Once Upon a Time." She was missing from that show for a while and now I know why. Once you get on the Hallmark Wheel as an actor you are basically printing money.
Then we caught a really nice movie about this girl who becomes a personal assistant for a football player who is out with an injury. It was a very nice little movie called "Love on the Sidelines." Best part of the movie? Joe Theisman played the guys father. When the wife asked who Joe Theisman was I got to replay the LT hit for her.
That never gets old.
RE: "NYC Values."
Although growing up as a child of the Prairie State and having gone to college and grad school in the deep south I have yet always had a fondness for NYC and its denizens ("Most" of 'em, at least.) My back-seater in the F-4 was a St Johns grad and grew up in NYC. He used to say that what was so wonderful about NY was that ABSOLUTELY anything one desired--hookers, drugs a fine tailor-made suit, purchase of precious jewelry, take-out or white table dining, fresh fish at the market--you name it, anything--could be had at 3 AM if one so desired. It was/is a true 24-hr city.
As for myself I feel about NYC like a 34 yr-old New Orleans casino dealer I knew who had been exiled to work in a Miss casino while the New Harrahs was being built in the early 90s. When called back to work at the completed casino in N.O. she went straight to her favorite haunt, flung open the door to Cosimos bar on Burgundy St (burr GUN-de) at 2:30am prancing in by announcing to one and all :"This dangerous crime-ridden, corrupt and filthy city--I can't stay away I love it so!" LOL!
Same for NYC as New Orleans...I love 'em both--and for the same reasons..
I'm thinking of John Goodmans 1990 comedy movie Arachnophobia here with Goodman playing the insanely intense uber-dedicated exterminator..
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