Sept. 17--NEW HAVEN -- Police Thursday confirmed that a 13-year-old girl's claims of kidnapping and possible attempted sexual assault were lies.
While taking the report "seriously" and "devoting significant investigative time" to the case, "today we are announcing that this investigation is closed after learning that said abduction and assault did not occur as reported," Lt. Julie Johnson, the head of the department's special investigations unit, said Thursday at a news conference.
"An unfortunate incident has occurred, but we can ensure the community that there is no abduction and assault suspect on the loose related to this incident," she said.
She expressed gratitude to the community for its help but declined to discuss specific details about what actually happened.
Multiple sources Wednesday confirmed the girl admitted to detectives that she made up the report Monday of being abducted from her Fulton Street home. Police found her partially clothed behind a house on Chamberlain Street with assistance from the FBI and a device that was able to "ping" her cell phone.
The alleged victim is "receiving attention for her needs" and "for the privacy of the young girl and her family we will not discuss the private matters that contributed to this case or how the details of this investigation became known," police said.
The news came as both a relief and annoyance to residents.
Ken Johnson, of 25 Chamberlain St., expressed frustration over the entire episode. When an FBI agent using an electronic device to track the girl's cell phone led to his door, the agent ordered him handcuffed.
He was freed about 10 minutes later with a curt apology, he said.
"It bothers me a lot. I'm sad that she made this up and what she put everyone through and everything," he said.
He also was upset at his treatment by authorities by being pushed up against a wall and handcuffed in front of the neighborhood.
"I can imagine what the neighbors think about me," he said.
The missing persons report prompted a massive response from law enforcement. Dozens of police officers searched for the girl and later scoured the area or held perimeters in search of a suspect after she was discovered. Two off-duty officers, Paul Kenney and Bill Coppola, responded on their own time after hearing about the alleged abduction. A police dog searched the area, and a state police helicopter circled for hours Monday.
By Tuesday, police began to have doubts about her account and she recanted her report Wednesday.
Johnson said she didn't know how much the search cost or whether the girl might be charged with making a false report.
"It's a juvenile and we won't discuss that."
[FRS COMMENT] - Now that last comment, I have a serious problem with. You certainly don't have a problem naming a man who, by inference, was falsely accused.
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And keep in mind they have no problem naming an 11 year old boy.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,503564,00.html
That's because the 11 yr old is a murderer ... killed 2 people.
As for the FRA in today's post, the girl harmed nobody. either mentally or physically.
So the guy slammed up against the wall and handcuffed as a rape suspect was not harmed at all.
Let's slam YOU up against a wall and handcuff YOU before deciding how 'harmless'the poor widdle girl was.
It sounds to me like a LOT of people were spending their time and money searching for this girl. I guess their fear and anxiety doesn't count.
This is practice drama. This is a full blown false accuser in the making.
She will be petted and feted, the poor thing, and rape shield laws will protect her the rest of her neurotic career.
Just a little harmless child, indeed.
Anonymous said...
That's because the 11 yr old is a murderer ... killed 2 people.
Beg to differ.
Rape is worse than murder these days. In fact, murder isn't so bad at all.
Talk to any John/Jane Q. Citizen on the street and they will tell you quite calmly who 'deserves' to live and die. They will tell you who they would kill if they were so inclined.
Not so with rape. How many people go around saying "She deserves to be raped" (exception being when it's a "HE" who deserves to be raped. In prison. Then it's OK This is AMerica, by gawd).
Substitute the word "rape" for the word "kill" in everyday conversation.
Killing someone is MUCH more acceptable than raping them.
Just watch CSI. EVERYTHING is worse than murder. Every other episode, in any of the 3 series, some guy (and it's always a guy) does something that's not killing but in some indirect way contributes to someone dying, and they say that.
For example, some guy on CSINY gave some girl athlete some performance enhancing drugs. She has some bizarre allergy that's triggered by those drugs, in conjunction with something she ate 3 days ago, at a specific temperature, in a specific location that's just moist enough, at a specific time of day, and she dies.
He of course runs, because he's too stupid to call the cops for a total accident. At the end, they arrest him, and the conversation goes:
"I didn't kill her!"
"No, what you did is much worse!"
Yeah. Murder is a joke now. You get 30 years because a mentally unstable stripper says you raped her, but if you kill someone, you are out in 2-5.
-zarko
"mentally unstable stripper",
or "mentally unstable girl",
or "mentally unstable woman".
They're all sluts. Their accusations are rubbish.
Transient severely beaten after false accusation of rape
October 11, 2010 12:17 PM
TONY SIMMONS / Online Editor
PANAMA CITY BEACH – A man was beaten bloody and senseless by an unknown group of people after someone falsely accused him of raping an intoxicated woman outside a bar early Sunday morning.
About 12:44 a.m. Sunday, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office was called to Newby’s Too, 4103 Thomas Drive, in reference to a sexual battery, according to an incident report. However, the woman who was identified as the victim said she had not been raped, and a man the crowd had detained as the perpetrator was in serious condition from a severe beating.
A deputy said the 41-year-old transient had been beaten so badly that his eyes were swollen shut and he couldn’t see. He was in and out of consciousness and could not tell authorities his name. Several people were holding rags on the man’s head to soak up blood.
While EMS treated the man, deputies spoke to the supposed victim and others present. The woman said she did not have sex with anyone; she had gone to the parking lot to lie down in a van that belonged to her boyfriend’s buddy. She was hot, so she took off her pants, she said. She saw several people taking the injured man from the van, but she didn’t know what happened.
The woman’s boyfriend said he had sent her to his friend’s van because she was intoxicated, according to the report. He wanted her to sleep it off. Later, he sent his buddy to check on her, and that’s when he found out the other man had been beaten up for supposedly raping the woman.
The man who owns the van told a deputy he had gone outside to check on the woman and saw a man on top of her. He believed the man was in the process of raping her. The report said the man “notified several people, unknown to him” of the attack, and the man was caught and “taken away.” He said he was not aware someone had beaten the alleged attacker until later.
A witness told deputies that he was in the parking lot and saw the supposed perpetrator running through the lot. He heard someone say the man had just raped a girl, so he tackled the man. Several others came over and took the man aside, and he did not see what happened next, he said.
The injured man was taken to Gulf Coast Medical Center for treatment. He had several head injuries, the report said. His eyes were swollen shut, his nose was swollen and bleeding, and he appeared to have blood coming from his eyes. He was coughing up blood.
When he regained consciousness, he told a deputy that he didn’t know how he got in the van or how he got to Newby’s; he denied having sex with anyone. He said he thought he was climbing in the van to get a ride to the beach; the deputy pointed out that he was already at the beach.
The man said he drank a fifth of whisky and two cases of beer that night.
He didn’t know any of the people who had beaten him and couldn’t identify them.
The case is still under investigation
exactly right about the police and the media naming the alleged suspect but not mentioning the details about the case
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