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"The prosecutors do not believe they could prove a crime was committed," Dan Donohoe, press secretary for the King County prosecuting attorney's office, told The Seattle Times. "Additional information" surfaced last week, he said. He didn't elaborate, but the boy's attorney said the girl recanted.

Donohoe noted that rape charges against two other teens still stand, but defense attorney Dennis McGuire, who represents one of the boys, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that there are "additional reasons to question the veracity of the girls' stories."

Indeed, with this girl's recantation, the other girls' stories are problematic. They said that they only came forward with their stories after they found out she was raped the second time.

Whether or not the rapes happened, these kids are facing great injustice. The question is: which kids?

Ten Commandments news :

• N.D. lawmaker wants investigation into Ten Commandments suit | State legislator objects to University of North Dakota's use of public funds for federal lawsuit against city of Fargo (Associated Press)
  
  
• Few blacks attend protests (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Chief justice may benefit | What is certain, said political and social science experts in Montgomery, is that there will be plenty of fallout from this monumental religious showdown. (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Sculptor finds his work at center of controversy | Richard Hahnemann is happy in his anonymity. (Mobile Register)
  
  
• Display removal irritates crowd | Supporters were puzzled and defiant when crews moved the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda into a nearby side room. (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Protest peaceful as police stand guard (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Monument is now out of sight, but not out of mind | Moving crew hired from out of state, because no one in Alabama would do it. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Debate lingers as monument is removed from view | Commandments display put in storage in Ala. Courthouse. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Christian conservatives defend Ten Commandments | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's defiant stand over the Ten Commandments is only the latest skirmish in a running battle between Christian conservatives and civil libertarians that dates back to Cecil B. DeMille's 1950s Hollywood epic about Moses. (Reuters)
  
  
• Ten Commandments stalemate broken (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
  
  
• Jerry Falwell decries removal of Ten Commandments (The Chattanoogan)
  
  
• Struggle over 'the Rock' divides evangelical leaders | Some evangelical leaders were outraged. But others said Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore should not have defied a federal court order to remove it (USA Today)
  
  

• Commandments hauled away | The judge's effort to redraw the line between church and state has struck a responsive chord among evangelical Christians hungry for a champion in the nation's "culture war," but it was doomed, even conservative attorneys say (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  

Ten Commandments opinion:

• Remembering what our society was based on | The Magna Carta Memorial does not mention God as Moore's courthouse memorial does but the document it honors vociferously does. (Michele Marr, The Independent,Huntington Beach, California)
  
  
• Time to reason together | We need now a renewed discussion among Bible-defenders as to whether we are living in a new Israel or a modern Babylon (Marvin Olasky)
  
  
• Moore's monument | Attacking the vehicle of freedom (The Star Tribune)
  
  

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