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June 20, 2016 10:00 PM
By NATHAN BROWN
Twin Falls Times-News
The City Council should have better handled reports of a young girl who was sexually assaulted by boys at a Twin Falls apartment complex earlier this month, said many residents who addressed the board at its meeting Monday night.
A crowd packed the chambers to hear a briefing from Twin Falls Police Chief Craig Kingsbury about false reports circulating about the incident, which contrary to claims on anti-Muslim websites did not involve Syrian refugees.
Residents said the Council should have released more information more quickly or expressed sympathy for the girl’s family, while others criticized Islam, refugee resettlement, the media or Prosecuting Attorney Grant Loebs.
“We need to know what’s going on with this case,” said Davis Odell.
Odell said people don’t need to know the names of the boys accused — the two boys in custody are 10 and 14, respectively, and the case has been sealed — but that the city should be transparent.
“We need to understand what the implications are of this,” she said.
Vice Mayor Suzanne Hawkins, who presided over the meeting, said the City Council should have done a better job of communicating with people, but that the situation was new for them too and that they were learning as well.
Two boys from Middle Eastern immigrant families are in custody in relation to a sexual assault on a 5-year-old girl that, authorities say, happened at the Fawnbrook Apartments on June 2. Several people came to the City Council a week ago calling on city officials to release more information.
Police and Loebs’ office were saying little last week, but the story blew up over the weekend after the boys were taken into custody. Many anti-refugee resettlement and anti-Islamic blogs picked up on it, and some incorrectly reported that the boys were Syrian refugees or made claims about other details on the attack that authorities have denied.
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Julie Ruf criticized Councilman Chris Talkington, who at last week’s meeting asked Ruf if she agreed with some white supremacist comments made at a February meeting and also said he was glad the critics of refugee resettlement weren’t around when his ancestors came over from Ireland. Ruf said she is of Irish descent as well, and that people shouldn’t have to worry about being attacked for speaking at a public meeting.
“That was entirely dishonorable of your seat,” she said.
Ruf reiterated her opposition to refugee resettlement — she said she talks to refugees, and most of them were not fleeing any sort of crisis — and said that, while there were inaccuracies in some of the stories told about the sexual assault, “I’ll tell you most liberals have their facts wrong, too.” She went on to criticize the media in general and the Times-News in particular.
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An apartment complex in Twin Falls is evicting the families of the three boys implicated in a sexual assault against a 5-year-old girl at the complex.
“With the police investigation now largely complete, acting in our capacity as property managers, we have served the legally required notifications to terminate the tenancy of those households who the police have identified as responsible for the criminal acts,” Jeffrey Passadore, president of Cambridge Real Estate Services, wrote in a letter to the tenants of Fawnbrook Apartments.
A June 2 assault prompted some people to go on social media and report that a group of Syrian refugees gang-raped the girl.
Prosecutors and police then said an incident did occur involving the 5-year old and three older boys, whose families are from Sudan and Iraq. Authorities said it did not involve Syrians and was not a gang rape, though one of the boys touched the girl.
originally posted by: Elementalist
They didn't want it to come out because it would make Trump right again.
Just like Orlando. . Chain of events by middle eastern upbringing individuals.
If CHILDREN 10-15 are into raping females (forcing penetration against their will), no wonder their culture is messed up.
From childhood to men. It's clear real men with good consciousness are not common in fatherhood throughout this culture.
It's a male dominate culture, driven by savage people who use ideologies to defend their unnatural and poor moral actions.
If all these terrorists and sexual savage acts are "a small % of Muslims/Islamic, then I don't want to know the larger % on average.
If a small % of said culture can cause so much savage chaos throughout the globe, what is the head of the snake alike?
Poor girl, my prayers are out to her and the family. She has to live with this for the rest of her life, a part of her robbed and broken.
Disgusting.
originally posted by: stormcell
originally posted by: Elementalist
They didn't want it to come out because it would make Trump right again.
Just like Orlando. . Chain of events by middle eastern upbringing individuals.
If CHILDREN 10-15 are into raping females (forcing penetration against their will), no wonder their culture is messed up.
From childhood to men. It's clear real men with good consciousness are not common in fatherhood throughout this culture.
It's a male dominate culture, driven by savage people who use ideologies to defend their unnatural and poor moral actions.
If all these terrorists and sexual savage acts are "a small % of Muslims/Islamic, then I don't want to know the larger % on average.
If a small % of said culture can cause so much savage chaos throughout the globe, what is the head of the snake alike?
Poor girl, my prayers are out to her and the family. She has to live with this for the rest of her life, a part of her robbed and broken.
Disgusting.
Part of the Koran says it that women who are not dressed head-to-toe in cloth are to be treated worse than animals. That applies to any woman of any religion. Then there are the bits about anyone of any other religious must pay taxes to be able to continue their religion. That's just a couple of rules that some believers take literally.
Another problem is that many believe that if they have or don't have a car accident, then it is the will of God. Therefore they don't take basic precautions like making sure their headlights or working, or even turning them on at night. This was a big problem for expat workers living in places like Libya. Some desert roads were exactly that. You could be driving on the desert freeway at night and then all of a sudden a car would just appear out of nowhere, zip past you, and disappear again. No headlights. If you were lucky, they were in the other lane.