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Father of Raped Teen Outraged at School, Justice System
posted 10/28/09 5:16 pm
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. - A father is condemning the Montgomery County (web | news) Schools and the judicial system on Wednesday after the teens who raped his 15-year-old daughter got probation and were allowed to return to school.

The father is entering a formal complaint about the judge who let the two 16 and one 17-year-old who raped his daughter to return back to high school.

The father said he found his daughter last January on the ground barely conscious after she went to a party where some boys gave her highly-potent alcohol.

“Three of the boys there planned to rape her. One was in the bathroom and the other was in the bathroom and they took advantage of her and what they did was absolutely horrific beyond my worst nightmares,” said the father.

A lawyer for one of them acknowledges had the boys been just a little older they could have spent decades in prison.

“The purpose of the juvenile court is to help young people who made a mistake, sometimes a very BAD mistake, get back on the right track,” said defense attorney David Felsen.

Friends of the rapists at Magruder High taunted his daughter so severely, her father says, he sent her out of state. Two of the boys returned to Magruder once the case wrapped up.

“It is just inconceivable that three boys could commit first degree rape and be allowed back into school,” the father of the victim said.

After outraged parents complained, a spokesperson for Montgomery County Schools said the boys either transferred to other schools or are getting home tutoring.

Friends of the victim say they also question the mild punishment for such a brutal attack.

“It is horrifying especially for her age and how she had to go through that and I don't know how she does it or how she is still going through that,” said Magruder student Shalini Boddu.

“It should have been harsher. Yeah, of course, they should still be in jail right now,” Boddu added.

The father of the victim said his daughter is currently staying with family in Nevada, but he hopes she will return soon. He said he plans to send her to a private school.

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