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QUESTIONS ARISE REGARDING INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES IN NEW JERSEY GANG RAPE CASE

Posted on April 15th, 2010 zshapiro No comments

The large headline claiming that a fifteen year old girl sold her seven year old sister for sex at a Trenton, New Jersey party last month certainly attracted attention. But the actual facts are much muddier and we may never know what happened. Besides the sister two men and three juveniles were arrested. Apparently much of the information that we have heard comes from the police interrogation of the two youngest juveniles who are 13 and 14 years old. Both of them have learning disabilities. One is illiterate. Those who have listened to the tapes of the interviews say the police used leading questions and promised the boys that they would be released if they cooperated. At times the polices put words in the boys’ mouths and pushed the kids into implicating particular people.

The thirteen year old cried throughout the interrogation and continually asked for his mother. At one point in the interview he said: “I should just make up a story to get it over with.”

The interview with the seven year old is not much more helpful. She apparently walked into a room and watched her sister having consensual sex for money. Then her statement parroted her sister’s statement.

We may never know the whole truth although the results of DNA tests should clarify the situation to some degree.
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