Three Garden Grove girls arrested for lying about

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Three Garden Grove girls arrested for lying about attacker

 

Associated Press

 

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Three 12-year-old girls were arrested at their schools for allegedly giving false statements to police that led to the arrest and eight-month incarceration of a homeless man, authorities said.

 

The girls were arrested on a felony charge of conspiring to falsely accuse 36-year-old Eric Nordmark, police said. One girl also was charged with one count of perjury. All three were taken Monday to Orange County Juvenile Hall.

 

"She was scared and started shaking," said Veronica Mendez Ochoa, the mother of one of two girls arrested at James Irvine Intermediate School in Garden Grove. "She's a little girl, but they handcuffed her like she was a murderer."

 

Last spring the three girls, then 11, told police they were stalked and attacked by a transient in Woodbury Park in Garden Grove.

 

Nordmark, a self-described nomad who hitchhikes around the country, had stopped in Orange County and was jailed on seven felony and misdemeanor counts of assault and child molestation.

 

One of the girls testified at a court hearing that Nordmark started choking her and she felt that she was going to black out.

 

One of the girls later admitted she and her friends made up the story to cover for her tardiness at school. The charges were dropped and Nordmark was released from jail that night. He could have faced five years in prison if convicted.

 

"They did something very serious," said Garden Grove Police Lt. Mike Handfield. "They put an innocent guy in jail for eight months."

 

Police said they may have erred in showing all three the same lineup of suspect photos, inadvertently helping them conspire to identify the same person.

 

"There have been serious allegations made by the minors in this case," said Orange County Senior Deputy District Attorney Mike Fell.

 

Fell could not discuss details of the case because the girls are underage but said typically juveniles who are arrested are taken to Juvenile Hall where a police report is submitted to the probation department who submits it to the district attorney's office.

 

"This alleged crime is not a violent crime," said Shirley MacDonald Juarez, an attorney for one of the girls. "These girls have been totally cooperative with police. There was no need for this."

 

If charges are filed Tuesday, the girls should be in court the next day for a detention hearing to determine if they will be released pending a trial, Fell said.

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Wow, I think it's only fair they spend 8 months getting raped by angry lesbians.

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You know what?

 

They put an innocent man in prison for EIGHT MONTHS. They deserve everything thing they get and the cops should have pulled the guns on them.

 

The parents just want to laugh and say "Oh, they did something wrong but there is no need for this."

 

Bulls**t, this is ENTIRELY needed. And NOT a violent crime??? EXCUSE ME?? They helped throw a man in jail for eight months because they didn't want detention! They took away eight months of his life and that's not serious? FINE, GIVE THE LITTLE BITCHES SOME ICE CREAM AND CAKE!

 

Give the one who admitted to the crime first a pass, minor probation. As for the others? At LEAST a few months in juevnile detention.