Dead California Teen's Family Sue Suspects in Sexual Assault Case

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Source: Reuters

Dead California teen's family sue suspects in sexual assault case

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA | Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:41pm EDT

By Laila Kearney

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A California teen who family members say killed herself after classmates circulated a photo of her being sexually assaulted by three boys was also scribbled with "markings" that "served to taunt and demean her," her parents' lawyer said on Friday.

New details of events leading up to last September's suicide of Audrie Pott, 15, allegedly assaulted while passed out drunk during a party at a friend's home near San Jose emerged as the girl's parents spoke publicly for the first time about her death and filed suit against the three boys accused in the attack.

Her family says Pott was the latest victim in a disturbing series of cases involving girls or young women being brutalized by sexual assault, then further humiliated when electronic images of their attack are distributed via social media.

The three boys accused of violating her were arrested last week on suspicion of sexual assault by digital penetration and distributing a photo of a minor in sexual positions - both of which are felonies in California.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE93F04320130416

[niyad]

1. at least this time, the football players were suspended from the team.

[radicalliberal]

10. But football is supposed to build character!

I guess I was wrong.

Another example of the new barbarism. Some deny there's a rape culture? Whatever became of conscience?

The parents of the rapists should be sued for every penny they've got.

[niyad]

12. but what kind of character? granted, we have that nfl player in boston yesterday, but way too

many of the other kind, from what I am hearing these last years.

[DRoseDARs]

2. As much as someone needs to answer for her rape/death, suing SUSPECTS is a perversion of justice.

Let the state make its case that these are the correct individuals and take its pound of flesh from them, then take yours.

[TheMadMonk]

4. Strikes me that such lawsuits are the only thing which get the authorities...

...off their arses to properly investigate and prosecute these crimes.

The evidence was there in the hours immediately after the assault. It's taken 7 months to lay charges.

[Sheldon Cooper]

5. Yep. Because then the discovery process starts,

and that can dig up enough information to lead to criminal charges. This happens a lot and there's nothing wrong with it.

[TheMadMonk]

8. True. However, in all three recent cases, the evidence was "discoverable"...

...simply by viewing the facebook pages of the accused and perhaps those of the victim's classmates.

In the case of Stubenville we damned well KNOW the evidence was placed directly into the hands of the sheriff, wherupon it promptly disappeared.

[msanthrope]

7. The civil case will toll, and the criminal case will proceed. Not a problem. nt

[calimary]

9. Nope.

Gotta disagree. Sometimes that's the only justice they can get. And the only punitive action that reaches the perpetrators.

[niyad]

11. I don't suppose the pictures count? you know, the ones that went viral?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Civil and criminal cases are different.

The DA handles the criminal aspect. Civil lawsuits are heard in a civil court. They have different standards. A tort or personal injury, which is a civil wrong, is what a person sues for in civil court.

[L0oniX]

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