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maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 12:17 PM Apr 2013

Lawsuit planned over assaulted Calif. teen suicide

Source: AP

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The family of a girl who committed suicide after she was sexually battered and then cyberbullied with a humiliating photo planned to file a civil action against the suspects on Monday and also speak publicly about the case, their representatives said.

Family spokesman Ed Vasquez said Monday the girl's parents want to speak out about how they learned of the sexual assault and share what they know about the three teenage suspects who were arrested last Thursday. Their arrest came eight months after their daughter, Audrie Pott, 15, posted online that her life was ruined and then hanged herself.

Eric Geffon, who represents one of the suspected teens, said the boys were cited last fall but no formal charges were filed against them until Thursday, when Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies arrested two boys at Saratoga High School and a third, a former Saratoga High student, at Christopher High in Gilroy where he currently was a student. As of Sunday night, all three 16-year-old boys were still being held in the Santa Clara County detention center.

Pott also had been a student at Saratoga High, and the suspects were her friends, said family attorney Robert Allard.

On the night she was assaulted, Pott drank alcohol mixed with Gatorade at a Labor Day sleepover party, then went upstairs and fell asleep "and woke up to the worst nightmare imaginable," Allard said. Over the next week, she pieced together who had sexually battered her

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23028108/lawsuit-planned-over-assaulted-calif-teen-suicide

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Lawsuit planned over assaulted Calif. teen suicide (Original Post) maddezmom Apr 2013 OP
May the soul of Audrie Pott find peace. In_The_Wind Apr 2013 #1
More 'Good Boys from Nice Families' belike. Wolf Frankula Apr 2013 #2
the mercury news won't let this rest olddots Apr 2013 #3

Wolf Frankula

(3,595 posts)
2. More 'Good Boys from Nice Families' belike.
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 01:30 PM
Apr 2013

There are times when I wish we could hang 'Good Boys from Nice Families'.

Wolf

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
3. the mercury news won't let this rest
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 01:37 PM
Apr 2013

one of the last good news papers in the country these 3 scumbags will not be forgotten .

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