7-Year-Old's Gang-Rape Story Was Made Up, Claims Suspect's Lawyer
TRENTON, N.J. (CBS/AP) The attorney for one of five suspects accused of gang-raping a 7-year-old girl at a New Jersey sex party is "100 percent" sure that the girl was not raped and was pressured to make up the whole story.
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"She was not raped, was not gang-raped," Robin Lord, attorney for suspect Gregory Leary, said. "I'm 100 percent certain that the 7-year-old was not sexually assaulted. The allegations will not be substantiated by any forensic evidence."
Leary is accused of participating in the rape and endangering the welfare of a child and was ordered held on $500,000 bail.
"My son didn't rape anyone," Leary's mother, Robin David, said outside the courthouse. "My son is a loving child and could never hurt anyone."
Leary is also accused of statutory rape; Trenton police say he also had sex with the girl's 15-year-old stepsister. Police have said that the stepsister was paid for sex at a party in a vacant apartment, then gave the younger girl money and encouraged the men to let them touch her. Police say it then progressed to rape by as many as seven men and boys. The stepsister has also been arrested.
The child was treated at a hospital, and police say there is DNA evidence of the crime.
In all, five men and boys have been charged with raping the 7-year-old. Besides Leary, they are 19-year-old Timear Lewis and three boys ages 13, 14 and 17.
"These boys are victims of their own hormones," Lord said.
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