What a terrible idea -- opening a criminal prosecution just to torment someone who is guilty of no crime, especially when the prosecutor knows for a fact they're not guilty. If that indeed happened, the prosecutor ought to lose her law license.

Sometimes the justice system doesn't produce just results. You can't play CalvinBall with the criminal justice system.

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I agree whole heartedly with this, I understand that there are laws put in place and that one must abide by them (ie. children 14 and under) but given the type of crime, the length of time of the crime and how many bystanders there were, surely a good lawyer will find some type of loop whole in past cases won or lost. Its just completely unjust to say that these onlookers are in no way responsible for what happend to that young lady. If it were someone we all knew or were close to, surely we would all see it that way.

I agree. They shouldn't allow them to have any more school dances. That will definitely teach them a lesson.

As someone else said, even if the cops weren't called, someone could have informed a chaperone or something.

Sometimes you have to do extreme things to get the attention of others. That includes punishments that may seep over onto innocent students. But I think this situation is horrible enough to warrant that. Plus, if we are really honest with ourselves, most of the parents probably wouldn't allow their child to go to another school dance at this school.