Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 an unnamed girl has recanted her allegations of sexual assault against Denzel Murray, 14, Shaquell Cooper and Ethan Phillip, both 15, and Onandi Brown and Travis Beckford, both 17.
When the case was presented to NYPD in January, the “victim” claimed she and her father, 39, were approached and accosted by a group of teens in a park on January 7, 2016 at 9 p.m. They made her father leave the scene. He left momentarily and upon his return, he threw bottles at the teens until one of them pulled a gun on him. So, he left his daughter at the scene because he feared he’d be shot. He told Eyewitness News, “The one put a gun in my face telling me to run, and all of them had their way with her.”
Those teens were apprehended and charged as adults with rape, forcible compulsion, criminal sex act and sex abuse in connection with allegedly assaulting the girl at Osborn Playground in Brownsville, New York.
“Working closely with the NYPD, my office has thoroughly investigated disturbing and very serious allegations of a gang rape at gunpoint last month inside the Osborn Playground in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn” reads a statement from Thompson’s office.
“The complainant, as well as her father, provided multiple inconsistent accounts to NYPD detectives and to experienced Special Victims prosecutors about important material facts in this case.
“The complainant has recanted her allegations of forcible sexual assault and the existence of a gun, and she does not wish to pursue criminal charges against any of the defendants.
“She also refuses to cooperate with any prosecution against her father, who was engaging in sexual conduct with her. That night, this young woman’s father and the five young men engaged in conduct that was reprehensible and wrong, but because of the lack of reliable evidence, criminal charges simply cannot be sustained.”
The damning evidence is cell phone footage of the “drunken” teen with her pants down and her father nearby. One of the teens asked her dad, “Can we have some of that?” The teens’ account is the father, who also was inebriated staggered off and returned, throwing bottles at them. The teens never denied having sex with the girl.
Phillip’s family came to his side early on. “All of that she said is a lie. If that was supposed to be her father, then you know she was in the park f–king her father,” said the teen’s brother, Billy Anderson. “She was basically telling them, ‘You could do it.’ This video is basically proving that whatever [their] story is, it’s false.”
Phillip’s mom, who would not give her name, added, “She was laughing, and they walked up on her like that. That’s her! She don’t have on no pants. This is before everything. She was out there having sex with the man that say he was her father.”
Turns out, when the dad left the scene, he actually went to find help. He went to a deli to report what was happening and the workers says they couldn’t understand his drunken speech.
The girl,18, refuses to press charges against her dad.
