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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t the police just come out publicly with the result of their investigation? That would go a long way in tamping down the crazies on this thread. [/quote]
The victim's family would have access to the police report. Because there are minors involved, the general public would not have access to this report unless they file a petition to access the records. 
Unfortunately there are a few posters on this thread who perhaps believe they are helping the victim's family by denouncing the school and Russell, but do not seem to realize that they come off as unhinged and irrational. Sadly, they are doing the opposite of helping.
The victim's family has retained counsel, according to their letter, and we can only assume that counsel is providing guidance and information to the family about what they have access to legally. There is a lot of misinformation about the legal process on this thread. I wish the family well.[/quote]

The police don’t need to release the police report in order to publicly announce the results of their investigation though. Doing that would tamp down on a lot of the conspiracy theories here I’d assume. [/quote]

The police gave a statement that is contained in the newspaper report linked in this thread. [/quote]

The police statement said that the allegation was credible but that they had no credible leads to investigate.

Which then created this circular mess.[/quote]

Where did you find the MPD statement that the allegation was credible? The only quote from the MPD about the allegation that I’ve found publicly (the student newspaper) said:

“Following an exhaustive investigation by MPD detectives,” an MPD spokesperson wrote to the Bit, “this case has been closed due to the absence of credible leads.” The spokesperson did not specify when the department closed the case. “The case would be reopened should new, credible evidence be presented to MPD,” the spokesperson wrote”[/quote]

So MPD expects evidence to BE PRESENTED to them. What. I think the police is a big part of the problem. They expect someone else to do the work and give them the evidence.  Is that how sloppy DC Police works. So no proactive actual police detective work where you hunt for evidence? No effort to retrieve video data from a camera that could unlock things. Just expect whatever GDS says[/quote]

No, MPD investigated based on the child's information, which was that two boys raped him in the bathroom at a specific time. He couldn’t identify the boys because their faces were covered and they changed their voices. This happened in November and it was reported in December. What exactly do you expect the Police to do? They probably asked for physical evidence, but there not be any marks on the child and I would guess the clothes he was wearing had been washed multiple times. The bathroom would have been cleaned. What makes you think they didn’t ask if there was videotape footage of that specific location from that specific day that they could review? Again, the report was weeks after the event, more likely then not any video from that day had been overwritten.

Do you think the Police should have interviewed every child taller then the victim? And what would they ask? Did you rape an 11 year old on this date or know someone else who did? Has anyone in your class discussed raping another kid? Has anyone in your class hazed another kid?

Or do you really think the Police took the kids testimony and said “OK, we are done.”
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