Damascus High School locker-room rape defendant moved to juvenile court for prosecution

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The cases against three co-defendants, all also 15 and originally charged as adults, were moved earlier.

By Dan Morse Dan Morse Reporter covering courts and crime in Montgomery County, Md. Email Bio Follow March 21 at 11:07 AM The last of four teenagers accused of sexual assaults in a high school locker room will have his case transferred to juvenile court, a decision Thursday by a Maryland judge that means all of the 15-year-olds originally charged as adults with attacking their football teammates with a broom handle have been returned to the juvenile system.

The rulings do not end the prosecutions. The suspects carried their same rape charges into the juvenile system. Juvenile court is geared toward rehabilitation and treatment, and punishment often is probation with no public conviction on a record. Adult courts produce a public record of the proceedings and can yield long prison sentences.During an all-day hearing Tuesday before Salant arguing about the proper venue, Abedi’s attorney, Dan Wright, said his client had long suffered from undiagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

“You’re talking about theft, bullying, harassment, attacks on students — multiple — fighting, sexual harassment,” Woodward said in court. He also stood out in school. “He wouldn’t stop talking. He wouldn’t stop being annoying,” and yet did well academically, she said. He struggled because of the ADHD, she said, and could not control his impulses.

“They were laughing,” Woodward said of the accused assailants. “This defendant thought it was funny.”

 

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