Poor Kid.....

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Registered: 02-05-2009
Poor Kid.....
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Thu, 07-23-2009 - 7:57pm

I guess this means what I think it means....


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/22/arizona.juvenile.sexual.assault/index.html


(CNN) -- Four boys ages 9 to 14 have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year old girl, police in Phoenix, Arizona, said Wednesday.


The girl was lured into a vacant storage shed by the suspects, who offered her chewing gum, police said at a news conference.


The girl was restrained while the boys -- ages 9, 10, 13 and 14 -- sexually assaulted her, police said of the July 16 incident.


All the suspects except for the 14-year-old live in the same apartment complex, according to Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill. The 14-year-old has been charged as an adult, Hill said.


Detectives said the girl was placed in the custody of Phoenix child protective services after the attack because of her parents' attitude toward her.


The girl and the boys charged are all from families that have come to the United States from the West African nation of Liberia, police said.


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How horrific!


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Registered: 03-18-2000
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 8:16am

>"Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill, a longtime public-information officer, described the case as "one of the worst crimes we have come across in Phoenix in quite some time," given the ages of the victim and the suspects, as well as the circumstances of the reported attack.


The girl and the four suspects are refugees from the war-torn West African country of Liberia, which, according to investigators, would complicate authenticating names and dates of birth.


Arizona Child Protective Services took custody of the girl after the July 16 incident at the apartment complex after her parents disowned her.


Hill said the parents blamed her for being victimized and bringing shame to the family."<


>"Police said the victim knew her attackers, but they are unclear on how long the families lived in the complex or how long it had been since they fled Liberia."<


Complete article at.......


http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/07/23/20090723sexassault0723.html


Blog: Who really shamed the family?


http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LaurieRoberts/58464


A little girl, only 8 years old, is lured into a closet, held down and gang raped by a group of boys who range in age from 9 to 14.


Then comes perhaps the worst blow of all.


"Take her, I don't want her," her father, a Liberian refugee, tells Phoenix police.


Daddy dearest tells police that the girl has shamed the family.



"The father told the case worker and an officer in her presence that he didn't want her back. He said, 'Take her, I don't want her,' " said Phoenix Police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill.


Hill said the father cited the family's Liberian culture as the reason for shunning the girl.


To which I reply: oh please.

 


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Community Leader
Registered: 04-05-2002
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 8:45am
The poor girl and just when she would need family support the most. How sad that a father can't put his child's needs first, over his "culture" but hopefully she'll find a family who will.










iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2000
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 9:23am

"How sad that a father can't put his child's needs first, over his "culture" but hopefully she'll find a family who will."


Let's hope she'll be taken into a loving home.


In these cultures females are considered property & she's damaged goods. :(

 


Photobucket&nbs

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-05-2009
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 9:52am

In these cultures females are considered property & she's damaged goods. :(

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2000
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 10:12am

Even in our Western culture many don't report rape for one reason or another. I imagine in restrictive cultures it's more. That's why women hide themselves in body covering garments to protect themselves from "inflaming desire" in men.


Losing one's virginity, in some cultures,

 


Photobucket&nbs

Community Leader
Registered: 04-05-2002
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 11:37am
That's a good question.





Community Leader
Registered: 04-05-2002
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 11:38am
I hope she does find the right family. You can imagine the type of abuse she'd face if she were to remain in the same home.





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Registered: 08-30-2005
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 2:15pm

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/23/phoenix.juvenile.assault/index.html

"CNN affiliate KTVK said it interviewed the girl's 23-year-old sister, who said she was baby-sitting the girl at the time of the alleged attack.

The sister, who was not identified by name by the station, expressed mixed feelings about her sister's attack. "I came to her and said it's not good for you to be following guys because you are still little," the sister told KTVK. She also said that she wanted the suspects to be released from jail because "we are the same people."

"When she comes back I'm going to tell her don't ever do that again because all of us, we are the same family, we are from the same place. Now she is just bringing confusion among us. Now the other people, they don't want to see her," the sister told KTVK."

Sickening. I'm hoping the US government sends them back to Liberia, sans daughter, if they seem to miss it so much.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2000
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 2:54pm
How strange. I don't understand the reasoning behind the sister's statements.
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Registered: 10-08-2008
Fri, 07-24-2009 - 5:14pm
Hopefully CPS got this girl away from her family before they did female genital multilation.

 

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