Keeping in mind this is an allegation by the girl's mother and these boys are to be presumed innocent at the moment...ACWORTH, Ga. - Three boys ages 8 and 9 were being held Monday in a detention center on charges of raping an 11-year-old girl in the woods near a suburban apartment complex, officials said.
The alleged attack happened Thursday and the girl's mother reported it to authorities Sunday, Acworth police Capt. Wayne Dennard said.
"The juvenile victim stated that an 8-year-old boy and two 9-year-old boys that she had been playing with earlier pulled her into a wooded area, where one of the boys raped her," Dennard said.
The three boys were charged with rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual assault, Dennard told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Their names were being withheld because of their age.
Calls to the Acworth Police Department and Cobb County prosecutors seeking further detail were not returned Monday morning.
Acworth is 28 miles north of Atlanta in the city's fast-growing outer suburbs.
I'm merely curious and playing devil's advocate... is rape an entirely black and white issue? Isn't there a difference between a 6ft armed thug raping a 20yr old college student, and an under 4ft 8yr old raping an 11yr old? Kinda like the difference between being hit with a baseball bat versus a whiffle ball bat...
