From the AP:
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Eight days after allegedly being sexually battered while passed out at a party, and then humiliated by online photos of the assault, 15-year-old Audrie Pott posted on Facebook that her life was ruined, "worst day ever," and hanged herself.
For the next eight months, her family struggled to figure out what happened to their soccer loving, artistic, horse crazy daughter, whose gentle smile, long dark hair and shining eyes did not bely a struggling soul.
And then on Thursday, seven months after the tragedy, a Northern California sheriff's office arrested three 16-year-old boys on charges of sexual battery.
"The family has been trying to understand why their loving daughter would have taken her life at such a young age and to make sure that those responsible would be held accountable," said family attorney Robert Allard.
"After an extensive investigation that we have conducted on behalf of the family, there is no doubt in our minds that the victim, then only 15 years old, was savagely assaulted by her fellow high school students while she lay on a bed completely unconscious."
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APRIL 11--The FBI yesterday arrested a 39-year-old man for allegedly molesting a sleeping female passenger on an American Airlines flight en route from Miami to Regan National Airport in Virginia.
Saurabh Agarwal was named today in a felony complaint charging him with engaging in abusive sexual contact with the victim, who is identified only by her initials, āR.C.L.ā Agarwal, who was born in India and lives in Sterling, Virginia, is jailed in advance of a detention hearing tomorrow afternoon in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
In a sworn affidavit, FBI Agent David Wiegand reported that āR.C.Lā was seated next to Agarwal on American Airlines Flight 1142, which departed Miami around 5:45 PM. After falling asleep following departure, the woman awoke to find Agarwal āhugging her body, with his hand inside her bra, fondling her breast.ā
āBecause of fear,ā however, the woman āpretended to be asleep.ā Wiegand noted that Agarwal ākept squeezing R.C.L.ās body tighterā and āsqueezed her nipple.ā The woman, who was in the window seat, told investigators that she ādid not show that she was awake due to being scared ofā Agarwal.
When a flight attendant approached with a refreshment cart, Agarwal āmoved off the victim,ā only to subsequently return to touching her as she continued to pretend to be sleeping. Agarwal, Wiegand charged, also leaned up against the woman and āpressed his legs up against R.C.L.ās legs.
The woman then said that she āneeded to use the restroom, left her seat, and went to the back of the Boeing 737-800, where she told the flight crew what had happened,ā Agent Wiegand reported.
A second woman, who was in the aisle seat next to Agarwal, told agents that she observed him āhugging R.C.L., smelling her, and putting his hand in her shirt.ā The woman āassumed defendant and R.C.L. were traveling together,ā adding that she was āirritated by the defendantās behavior.ā
The witness said that after āR.C.L.ā left their row, Agarwal touched her leg, claiming he had dropped his drink. The woman, Wiegan noted, āquickly jumped up and went to the back of the plane.ā There, she āobserved R.C.L. cryingā and realized that āDefendant and R.C.L. did not know one another.ā
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Seriously, I'm starting to lose my faith in humanity.