DC police admit botching 11-year-old girl’s rape case, arresting her instead of her attackers

Washington D.C. police investigators are looking into how the department botched the rape case of an 11-year-old almost seven years ago,  arresting her instead for filing a false report, reports The Washington Post.
According to her parents, even though their daughter, Danielle Hicks-Best [who allowed her name to be used in the story], showed signs of sexual assault, she was charged with filing a false report and they agreed to a poorly worded and confusing plea bargain on her behalf making her a ward of the state.

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Since that time, Hicks-Best has spent years in and out of detention and secure treatment centers, when she wasn’t running away.
READ MORE:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/dc-police-admit-botching-11-year-old-girls-rape-case-arresting-her-instead-of-her-attackers/