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| Police investigating the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a school dance are finding that a California law may make it impossible to pearl jewelry prosecute as many as 20 people who saw the rape and did nothing. A state statute requires that people must report to police any information they have about the sexual assault of children under the age of 14. There is no law requiring people do the multi strand necklace same for victims over that age. "The fact that our victim missed that age by a very short time …" said Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan. "It's just very offensive that there's no statute we can use to show that we condemn their behavior." Gagan said the assault began inside a homecoming dance Saturday night at Richmond High School. He said the girl was taken to a dark, remote corner on the opera or rope necklace campus and raped by as many as 10 males. Gagan said Wednesday that police have arrested five males — between the ages of 15 and 21 — and charged them with a variety of felonies, including rape and kidnapping. He expected more arrests this week. | ||
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| Johannesburg - Judge Meyer Joffe's fate takes centre stage in the corruption trial of former top cop Jackie Selebi when court proceedings resume on wholesale coral jewelry Thursday. The State had indicated it would oppose the defence's bid to have the judge recuse himself for allegedly showing bias against Selebi. The freshwater pearl recusal application last week brought proceedings in the South Gauteng High Court to a temporary halt. If the recusal were to be granted, the trial, which got underway after years of postponements, would start all over again in front of a new judge. Selebi is facing a charge of corruption and another of defeating the ends of justice in connection with at least R1.2m he allegedly received from convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti and inflatable tent others in return for favours. | ||
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| Previously the former national police commissioner expressed anger at delays in his trial. "Let the people have the courage to put the turquoise jewelry allegations they have to me in an open court of law - that's why I'm angry," he said in May, when the trial was postponed to October. He even abandoned a demand for outstanding documents that could help his case, apparently just so the trial could start. In May Joffe also warned the State - which at that stage was involved in cultured pearl jewelry obtaining certain files from the police - that no further delays would be tolerated in October. "Let there be no misunderstanding in that regard," Joffe told State prosecutor Gerrie Nel at the time. Selebi was supposed to have gone on trial on freshwater pearl jewelry April 14 this year | ||
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| The investigation started in 2006 and Selebi first presented himself to court in 2008. Since the case started this month, reports surfaced of freshwater pearl necklace a secret video recording involving Agliotti, the State's star witness, talking to national intelligence officials. At the time, Joffe expressed concern over the fact that it seemed to have been leaked to the press and that neither the State nor the defence had knowledge of the recording. Earlier this year, Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble criticised Selebi's slow prosecution, saying he did not understand why it was taking so wholesale coral jewelry long. "I've never seen happening what is happening in South Africa. I sure hope that South Africa is still a country where people are innocent until proven guilty." Selebi was Interpol president from freshwater pearl jewelry 2004 until January 12 2008, but resigned after being suspended over the graft allegations. | ||
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| The attack put this industrial suburb of San Francisco in the national spotlight. Home to numerous refineries and loading docks, Richmond was ranked as the ninth most dangerous city in the USA in 2008, according to Morgan Quitno Press, a freshwater pearl strands research company that tracks criminal data. Gagan said up to 20 onlookers came and went but that no one called police until a woman overheard two witnesses talking about the attack and she reported it. The case drew comparisons to other high-profile cases where groups of akoya pearl pendant people fail to report heinous crimes, a phenomenon dubbed the "bystander effect." According to the theory, the likelihood that a witness reaches out for help decreases as the number of witnesses increase. One notorious example of the phenomenon took place in Queens, N.Y., in 1964, when Kitty Genovese was attacked in the courtyard of an apartment complex. Numerous residents heard or saw portions of the attack and did nothing, though some details have been disputed. Studies have found that people in such situations either think someone else has called police, fear getting involved, or fail to help for other reasons. David Hyman, a University of Illinois law professor who has studied the bystander effect, said the biggest misconception about such situations is that inflatable tent they happen often. | ||
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