ALL CHARGES WERE DROPPED WHEN GIRL'S STORY UNRAVELED.
Mar 23 - All charges were dropped against a Brooklyn, New York janitor who was accused of raping an 8-year-old-girl. Arrested on Monday, he was arraigned then sent to Rikers. Bail was set at $150,000. The very next day, the prosecutors asked for him to be released on his own recognizance as the girl's story unraveled.
Prosecutors said yesterday that during further questioning, they concluded that the child's account had too many inconsistencies to be credible.
ABC7 reported: [The teacher] was overcome with tears at Brooklyn Criminal Court today, after the less than two minute proceeding that ended with an assistant district attorney delivering the words, "The People are dismissing the charges."
School Principal
Mar 21 - Officials reassigned the principal of the school because he allegedly did nothing about another possible abuse case involving the same girl and a different adult.
A Department of Education spokesman said yesterday that Long was being probed about "his alleged failure to report an earlier allegation of child abuse
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