Criminal charge

I'm Erin Vogt.

Disturbing criminal charges out of Asbury Park.

A 23-year-old Passaic County resident who ICE says is a Honduran national is accused of targeting an 11-year-old girl on social media.

lowering her from her home and sexually assaulting her in his car.

What if the brain fart was the crime?

Criminal charges against Brandon Bostian were prepared.

And Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams does one of the very few decent things he ever did and decides not to press charges.

Thanks, Seth, you piece of shit.

humiliation ritual stops there.

Fucking sure, yeah.

This was a travesty, a breach of justice so gratuitous, so vile, so completely against the interests of the public, of decent God-fearing folk everywhere, that the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office appealed the ruling Just a few months later, on February 6th, 2018, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Kathleen Streeter-Lewis reinstated all criminal charges against Bostian.

I thought to get, like, persecuted like this, you had to have, like, done something, you know? Maybe that's a naive sort of, you know, liberal thing.

Goju and Sylvia spent four days in jail before being released without charges at that stage.

Criminal charges against them would come later, but the child welfare case was already moving forward.

Lily Bell is our unofficial head of HR at Hidden True Crime, and somehow she always knows exactly when somebody needs a little love.

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