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October 26, 2005

Justice for Jane Doe--OC Gang Rape Three to be sentenced as adults

Greg Haidl, Keith Spann, and Kyle Nachreiner, the Orange County three who were charged with videotaping their gang-rape of a passed out girl (warning: very graphic description) will be sentenced as adults.

It was a brutal blow to family and friends of the defendants. Just days before, they were so optimistic that they provided another odd moment in an already surreal case -- more than 20 of them happily posing for a group photo outside of Briseno's courtroom. Nachreiner supporters from Rancho Cucamonga wore sunglasses inside the courthouse, giggled and then amused themselves by trying to intimidate a reporter.

Briseno's decision likely means the trio will go to state prison for the 2002 videotaped sexual assault of an unconscious minor during a Newport Beach high school party. But the judge also granted the defense one more lengthy delay. Sentencing is now set for Jan. 20, some 1,295 days after the crime.

The defense attorneys for the three used every misogynist, slut-baiting stereotype to excuse the perps. Ghengis Khan himself would have curdled at it. They also went out of their way to intimidate, slander, and terrorize Jane Doe.

[The Haidl defense] called Jane Doe 1 a "slut" who enticed an "innocent . . . little boy" (that would be six-foot-plus Greg Haidl, who has had six known separate criminal episodes in the past three years). In hopes of forcing Jane Doe 1 to decline prosecution, they probed her entire life—tailed her, posted inflammatory fliers in her neighborhood, spread savage rumors about her family, sued investigating police agencies, and released her private medical records to members of the media. Some jurors weren’t bothered; some actually received post-trial checks from Haidl in return for a promise to act as consultants at the retrial, which could begin later this year.

I don't wish violence on these three or their scumbag defenders. But I do want them to be held accountable.

Posted by at October 26, 2005 08:57 AM