{"id":2230,"date":"2007-03-24T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T17:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/fuckin_kids.html"},"modified":"2007-03-24T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T17:49:05","slug":"fuckin_kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/fuckin_kids.html","title":{"rendered":"Fuckin’ Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that horrifying, disgusting story about the 58-year-old janitor accused of raping an eight-year-old girl repeatedly at school? You know — the janitor whose picture was all over the evening news and in the tabloids. Yeah, well that was basically all made up<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A judge yesterday tossed out the case against a man accused of raping an 8- year-old girl in the school where she was a student and he a janitor — as prosecutors admitted that her story had fallen apart.<\/p>\n

Francis Evelyn, 58, who had maintained his innocence, sobbed as he left the Brooklyn courthouse.<\/p>\n

“He’s been through quite a bit this week,” defense attorney Richard Spivack said.<\/p>\n

The girl’s mom told police on Monday that her daughter said she’d been repeatedly assaulted over the last month in a school bathroom.<\/p>\n

Evelyn was arrested later on that day after the girl identified him as her attacker. Bail was set at $150,000.<\/p>\n

But on Wednesday he was suddenly released without bail, prompting speculation that the case was considered shaky.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said yesterday that during further questioning, they concluded that the child’s account had too many inconsistencies to be credible.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a wire story in the Post (classy!), who should feel at least a little sheepish about running this story. The Daily News coverage is a little more contrite<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After days of falsely being portrayed as a child rapist, a Brooklyn school custodian broke down in tears yesterday as the charges against him were dismissed.<\/p>\n

“Just kill me,” a distraught Francis Evelyn, 58, muttered to family members who tried to soothe him as he left Brooklyn Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

Evelyn had been led out of Public School 91 in Wingate in handcuffs on Monday and spent two days in jail at Rikers Island after an 8-year-old girl said he had repeatedly molested her in a basement bathroom between Feb. 1 and March 9.<\/p>\n

But the Trinidad native knew he was innocent.<\/p>\n

“I went through hell,” Evelyn later told Channel 7 news.<\/p>\n

He said he would never forget being in jail — his first time ever behind bars, the station reported.<\/p>\n

“They were threatening me, and tell me they’re going to take me out, they’re gonna cut my throat,” he said. “It’s their sister, their niece. It was hell.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember that horrifying, disgusting story about the 58-year-old janitor accused of raping an eight-year-old girl repeatedly at school? You know — the janitor whose picture was all over the evening news and in the tabloids. Yeah, well that was basically all made up: A judge yesterday tossed out the case against a man accused of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}