Thursday, January 6, 2011

Charges filed in Facebook photos rape case

The Associated Press

MAPLE RIDGE, British Columbia — Canada's federal police force has
charged two teenage boys after a girl was gang raped at a party and
photos of the incident were put on Facebook.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Peter Thiessen said Thursday that
18-year-old Colton Ashton McMorris has been charged with sexual
assault and 19-year-old Dennis John Allen Warrington has been
charged with production and distribution of child pornography in the
Sept. 10, 2010, incident. The girl was 16 at the time.

The photos were widely circulated on the Internet after they were
posted on the popular social networking site. A 16-year-old boy was
charged last fall with production and distribution of child pornography
in connection with the attack.

Thiessen read a statement Thursday from the victim who said she had
to leave her school because of bullying following the ordeal.