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Officials: Former Northern California news helicopter pilot used fake name to obtain license
A former Northern California news helicopter pilot has been arrested for flying without a proper license and lying to officials. …read more
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Federal wildlife officials plan to send hunters to kill barred owls in Northwest
The agency’s preferred course of action calls for killing 3,603 barred owls in four study areas in Oregon, Washington and Northern California over the next four years.
2 men convicted in Calif. high school gang rape
Two more men have been found guilty for their roles in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl outside a Northern California high school.
Contra Costa County jurors on Thursday convicted 20-year-old Marcelles Peter and 22-year-old Jose Montano of forcible rape, sexual penetration and forced oral copulation.
The charges stemmed from a 2009 assault outside Richmond High School’s homecoming dance that attracted national attention.
Peter and Montano are among six men accused of raping the victim. Authorities say she was beaten, robbed and sexually abused over two hours while as many as 20 people watched.
Two of the men were convicted earlier of gang rape in the case. The other two are awaiting trial on lesser sexual assault charges.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
Jurors have reached verdicts for two of the men charged with gang raping a 16-year-old girl at a Northern California high school.
The Contra Costa County jury is scheduled to render a verdict Thursday in the case against Marcelles Peter, 20 and Jose Montano, 22, the Contra Costa Times reported (http://bit.ly/14ZR0gp).
Peter and Montano were among six people accused of raping the victim in October 2009 in a dark courtyard outside a homecoming dance at Richmond High School.
Both are charged with gang rape, forced oral copulation in concert and penetration with a foreign object, but their respective juries were instructed to consider lesser offenses. They face life in prison if convicted.
Authorities said the girl — a sophomore at the time of the attack — was beaten, robbed and sexually abused over two hours while as many as 20 people watched the attack that drew national attention.
Police found the 16-year-old girl partially nude and unconscious under a picnic table. She had been suffering from a near-fatal blood alcohol level and head trauma.
“My head really hurt, and I saw five of everybody staring at me,” the victim testified last month about waking up in the hospital after the assault. “I felt very nauseous, as …read more
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Residents of sinking Calif. subdivision file claim
For months homeowners agonized as houses in their subdivision sank one-by-one into a California hilltop. It got so dangerous that the U.S. Postal Service refused to deliver mail.
Now, they say they know the reason eight homes were destroyed and 10 others are in danger, and they’ve taken the first step toward recouping damages by filing a claim against Lake County.
A leaking county water system that went undetected for months saturated the hillside and caused the ground to give way, said Michael Green, an attorney for the 41 homeowners in the subdivision with sweeping views of Clear Lake in Northern California.
Green is seeking $5 million for each homeowner in the claim filed last month against the county.
“They’re facing a pretty significant economic disaster,” he said.
County officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. They have 45 days to respond to Green’s claim for damages before he can file a lawsuit.
Lake County supervisors previously asked Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a disaster area, but the request was declined.
The county has maintained that a landscape irrigation system operated by the Lakeside Heights homeowners association could have contributed to the ground saturation.
As home after home sank into the hillside, bewildered homeowners began to wonder if their land might be haunted.
Eventually, tests revealed leaks “dumping substantial amounts of water into the hillsides,” Green said.
He said even the owners of homes not damaged by the sinking earth are suffering damages because they will be unable to sell their property.
“We’re just trying to get these folks reasonable compensation,” he said.
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Calif. Town Locked Down After Girl, 8, Murdered
By Matt Cantor A tiny Northern California town was shut down over the weekend amid a manhunt for the murderer of an 8-year-old. Residents of Valley Springs—population 2,500—were told to lock their doors and watch for a man accused of stabbing Leila Fowler on Saturday afternoon, the AP reports. Police…
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Tense Calif. town hunts man who killed girl, 8
After door-to-door sweeps proved fruitless, law officers urged residents of a small town in Northern California to lock their door and keep a close eye on streets and yards for a man who stabbed an 8-year-old girl to death in her house.
The attacker, only described as wearing a black shirt and blue pants, was the subject of a broad search Sunday by the sheriff’s departments of Calaveras and surrounding counties, the California Highway Patrol and the state Department of Justice.
Eight-year-old Leila Fowler was stabbed to death on Saturday at the home in Valley Springs, Coroner Kevin Raggio said. The town has about 2,500 people.
“This is way too close to home,” Julia Poland, who took her 13-year-old daughter to an afternoon news conference on the search, told the Modesto Bee. “This kind of thing does not happen here.”
Leila was found by her brother — reported by local media to be 12-years-old — after he encountered a male intruder in the home. When the intruder ran away, the boy found his sister stabbed. She was pronounced dead at a local hospital, officials said.
Authorities spent Saturday night and into Sunday conducting a door-to-door sweep of homes scattered across hilly terrain, checking storage sheds and horse stables, and even searching attics.
“It is a difficult area to search, it’s rural, remote,” sheriff’s Capt. Jim Macedo said.
Mass notifications alerted residents about the incident and the search for the suspect, officials said.
“I was working on my tractor and a CHP copter kept flying over my house,” area resident Roger Ballew, 35, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
A SWAT team showed up at his house Saturday night and told him to stay inside, Ballew said.
“It was nerve-wracking, I didn’t sleep well,” he said.
Investigators on Sunday were interviewing several people, but no suspects had been named by late afternoon. Investigators were checking out tips that had come in to the sheriff’s office, including leads and tips that came from outside the county, officials said.
“It’s just
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Fatal stabbing of girl, 9, prompts Northern California manhunt
The Calaveras County Sheriff’s office says early Sunday that authorities are still searching for an intruder who killed a 9-year-old girl at her house.
The Sheriff’s office says that the man was considered armed and dangerous, and authorities are warning residents in the Northern California town of Valley Springs to lock their doors.
The office on Saturday declined to release details on the slaying.
KCRA-TV says the victim’s 12-year-old brother encountered an intruder in his home and saw the man run away. The boy went to check on his sister and found she had been stabbed.
The girl was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Valley Springs is about 60 miles from Sacramento.
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Starbucks' Brilliant Sandwich Move
By Demitrios Kalogeropoulos, The Motley Fool
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Would you like a sandwich with your coffee?
Starbucks just booked strong revenue growth for its fiscal second quarter. And the rise was fueled in part by one unlikely star product: panini sandwiches.
The coffee king’s sales jumped higher by 7% in the U.S. Of course, popular espresso beverages — like the vanilla spice latte and hazelnut macchiato — did their part by selling well. But food also played a big role in delivering Starbucks’ outsized sales gains.
Food and prepaid cards pair well
That’s partly thanks to the company’s prior success in selling massive amounts of prepaid cards. Customers loaded more than $1 billion onto their loyalty cards in the final three months of 2012, and gift cards were one of the most popular presents over the holidays. Those trends added up to billions of dollars of Starbucks money just sitting in people’s pockets, ready to be spent.
And customers chose to spend more of that cash on food last quarter. The company’s expanded availability of paninis was a hit, boosting food sales and drawing more traffic into the stores during those typically slower afternoon hours.
Satisfied customers
Thankfully for Starbucks, the uptick in food sales didn’t seem to hurt customer satisfaction, either. Speed and friendliness metrics have fallen at McDonald’s lately, and customer complaints are on the rise. It’s probably no coincidence that Mickey D’s has seen its sales growth tick down over the past few quarters.
But Starbucks has managed the opposite result. The company said that, despite the busier stores and expanded food options, order accuracy and staff friendliness metrics actually rose. The overall satisfaction scores at Starbucks locations improved last quarter by the highest amount in two years.
Another helping
All of that bodes well for the company’s ambitious plans to broaden its food menu. Starbucks spent $100 million to buy the La Boulange bakery brand last year, and it has been testing new bakery food options in its Northern California stores.
The company is happy enough with the results that it expects to introduce the new treats to all Starbucks locations over the next 18 months. Given that customers added 32% more dollars onto their loyalty cards last quarter, they’ll have plenty of money to spend on trying out the new food options when they arrive.
Hungry for more?
With its premium beverages, McDonald’s has been pushing into Starbucks’ territory. But the company’s stock turned in a dismal year in 2012, underperforming the broader market by 25%. Looking ahead, can the Golden Arches reclaim its throne atop the restaurant industry, or will this unsettling trend continue? Our top analyst weighs in on McDonald’s future in a recent premium report on the company. Click here now to find out whether a buying opportunity has emerged for this global juggernaut.
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California man pretended to be African leader's son, feds say
A San Francisco man was in federal custody Friday on charges that he defrauded a Northern California real estate agent and his girlfriend out of $1.6 million by pretending to be the son of Congo‘s president.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco said Blessed Marvelous Herve persuaded the couple to forward him the money over four years with promises of repayment, lucrative commissions, and multi-million bonuses and a collection of impressive-looking documents that included a certificate of recognition from a U.S. senator.
Instead, they received excuses and demands for more funds, according to an affidavit prepared by the FBI agent who investigated the case.
The affidavit states that Herve told the Marin County real estate agent that his father wanted to buy luxury homes in the San Francisco Bay area, but that first he needed help recovering millions of dollars seized by the U.S. government, advances so he could rent limousines to tour potential properties, and additional financial assistance paying IRS debts and costs associated with other legal troubles.
It said that after the agent had given Herve about $635,000 and “was financially broke,” his girlfriend stepped in and provided another $970,000. At 41, Herve is the same age as Joseph Kabila, who has been president of the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2001.
Herve’s lawyer, Assistant Federal Public Defender Edward Hu, declined to comment on the allegations.
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Calif. school couldn't expel teens accused in assault case, official says
The attorney for the family of a 15-year-old Northern California girl who hanged herself after she was allegedly sexually abused by three boys disputed an explanation by a school superintendent of why the boys were not expelled.
After Saratoga schools superintendent Bob Mistele said Wednesday the three teens suspected of assaulting Audrie Pott were at a party which was not on campus or related to school, so they could not be expelled, attorney Robert Allard responded by saying his reaction and that of the Pott family was “one of disgust and dismay.”
In his response, Allard outlined four areas of disagreement with district’s statement, including the claim that the boys could not be expelled because the alleged assault did not take place on campus and was not related to school.
“Whether the sexual assault occurred on or off campus, it is clear from the accounts of various students that the dissemination of at least one photograph occurred on school grounds for the specific purpose to harass and intimidate Audrie while she was attending school related activities, Allard said in a statement issued late Wednesday.
“For that reason, in our view, the school district was obligated to investigate and take action against these young men. The Pott family in fact participated in several meetings with school administrators to demand that the young men be expelled or removed from campus,” the statement said.
The boys accused in the case were charged in the fall but remained in school seven months until April 11, when sheriff’s deputies took them out of their classrooms and arrested them on charges of sexual battery and distribution of child pornography. Attorneys representing the teens, whose names have not been released because of their ages, did not return repeated calls seeking comment Wednesday.
The Pott family filed a lawsuit against the boys and their families Monday, and has also filed a claim against the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, alleging that administrators were slack in responding to bullying against Audrie, who committed suicide eight days after she was assaulted.
Allard alleges that the three suspects took her upstairs to a bedroom during a Labor Day weekend party where she drank a combination of vodka and Gatorade and passed out. The boys allegedly assaulted her, drew and wrote on her, and took a photo of an intimate body part, said attorney Robert Allard.
Allard said the district failed to document a meeting the Pott family had with administrators about bullying several months before Audrie’s death.
In a written statement responding to questions from The Associated Press and other media, Mistele confirmed that administrators had met with the Pott family before her death, but he said “the issue of bullying was not the subject covered in those conversations.”
Mistele said that after Audrie’s death, a small group of students came to the office to tell an assistant principal that students were talking about an incident at a party involving the girl, and that some photographs were being shared among students.
He said school officials contacted the campus resource officer but
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Teens accused of sexual assault of girl who killed herself appear in Calif. court
Three teens facing charges in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old Northern California girl who committed suicide after the attack appeared in court for the first time Tuesday.
The proceedings were not public, and lawyers involved in the case declined to comment.
The three 16-year-old boys are each charged with sexual battery, dissemination of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Attorneys and family members of the defendants were seen entering juvenile court, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Relatives of Audrie Pott, who hanged herself after a humiliating photo of her on the night of the attack circulated, were also there.
Attorney Eric Geffon, who represents one of the three suspects, had previously told The Associated Press that attorneys representing all three boys would have a statement Tuesday after the hearing, but no statement was issued and Geffon did not return calls seeking comment.
Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Jaron Shipp said he couldn’t comment or provide any information on the case because the boys are juveniles.
Meanwhile, Robert Allard, an attorney for Audrie’s family, announced Tuesday that they have filed a claim with the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District over what they say was negligence by school administrators in addressing bullying they say Audrie suffered while a student at Saratoga High School.
Filing a claim is a necessary step before a lawsuit can be filed against a public agency.
Allard claims school administrators did not act on bullying concerns brought up to the principal who preceded the school’s current principal, Paul Robinson, and that Robinson proclaimed that bullying was not the cause of Audrie’s Sept. 10 suicide despite having knowledge of the police investigation into the alleged assault.
“That caused a great deal of anxiety for the family,” Allard said. “From the mother’s perspective, it was extremely inappropriate and insensitive for the school to have announced to the student body Audrie’s passing before the family even understood that she had passed.”
A call to the school district late Tuesday seeking comment was not immediately returned.
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3 in sexual assault case, suicide appear in court
Three teens facing charges in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old Northern California girl who committed suicide after the attack appeared in court for the first time Tuesday.
The proceedings were not public, and lawyers involved in the case declined to comment.
The three 16-year-old boys are each charged with sexual battery, dissemination of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Attorneys and family members of the defendants were seen entering juvenile court, the San Jose Mercury News reported (http://bit.ly/17F9Ye6 ). Relatives of Audrie Pott, who hanged herself after a humiliating photo of her on the night of the attack circulated, were also there.
Attorney Eric Geffon, who represents one of the three suspects, had previously told The Associated Press that attorneys representing all three boys would have a statement Tuesday after the hearing, but no statement was issued and Geffon did not return calls seeking comment.
Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Jaron Shipp said he couldn’t comment or provide any information on the case because the boys are juveniles.
Meanwhile, Robert Allard, an attorney for Audrie’s family, announced Tuesday that they have filed a claim with the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District over what they say was negligence by school administrators in addressing bullying they say Audrie suffered while a student at Saratoga High School.
Filing a claim is a necessary step before a lawsuit can be filed against a public agency.
Allard claims school administrators did not act on bullying concerns brought up to the principal who preceded the school’s current principal, Paul Robinson, and that Robinson proclaimed that bullying was not the cause of Audrie’s Sept. 10 suicide despite having knowledge of the police investigation into the alleged assault.
“That caused a great deal of anxiety for the family,” Allard said. “From the mother’s perspective, it was extremely inappropriate and insensitive for the school to have announced to the student body Audrie’s passing before the family even understood that she had passed.”
A call to the school district late Tuesday seeking comment was not immediately returned.
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Defense rests case in Jodi Arias murder trial
Defense attorneys in Jodi Arias‘ murder trial rested their case Tuesday after about 2 1/2 months of testimony aimed at portraying the defendant as a victim of domestic violence who was forced to fight for her life on the day she killed her one-time boyfriend.
The trial is expected to continue at least several more weeks before jurors begin deliberations. Testimony in the trial began in early January with opening statements, followed by the prosecutor making quick work of the state’s case, concluding in less than two weeks. Defense attorneys began calling witnesses on Jan. 29.
“At this point, the defense rests,” attorney Kirk Nurmi told the judge as the day began Tuesday.
The move came a day after Arias’ attorneys sought to admit as evidence a photograph of the victim taken by Arias in the final minutes of his life. A defense expert was prepared to testify that when digitally enhanced, a figure, presumably Arias, can be seen reflected in the victim’s eyeball holding a camera, not any weapons.
Prosecutor Juan Martinez vigorously fought to keep the jury from hearing the testimony, but after several hours of arguments, he merely stipulated that the figure in the reflection is, indeed, holding a camera, not a gun or a knife.
Arias faces a possible death sentence if convicted of first-degree murder in the June 2008 killing of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home.
Authorities say she planned the attack in a jealous rage. Arias initially denied involvement then blamed it on two masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said it was self-defense.
Arias testified that she was taking provocative pictures of Alexander in the shower when she dropped his camera and he became enraged, forcing her to defend herself.
Alexander suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, was shot in the head and had his throat slit. Arias’ palm print was found in blood at the scene, along with nude photos of her and the victim from the day of the killing.
Arias said she recalls Alexander attacking her in a fury. She said she ran into his closet to retrieve a gun he kept on a shelf and fired in self-defense but has no memory of stabbing him.
She acknowledged trying to clean the scene, dumping the gun in the desert and working on an alibi to avoid suspicion.
Arias’ grandparents reported a .25-caliber handgun stolen from their Northern California home about a week before Alexander’s death — the same caliber used to shoot him — but Arias said she didn’t take it. Authorities believe she brought it with her to kill the victim.
Later Tuesday, Martinez began calling rebuttal witnesses starting with a state-hired clinical psychologist who evaluated Arias, as the prosecutor works to discredit two key defense witnesses — one who diagnosed Arias with post-traumatic stress disorder and amnesia and another who said the defendant suffers from battered woman’s syndrome.
Martinez accused both defense witnesses of shoddy work, and of basing their opinions on biased findings after forming relationships with Arias.
Arizona clinical psychologist Janeen DeMarte first addressed the more than
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Could Techies Get a Floating Home Near California? (6 photos)
Imagine living and working on a floating community 12 miles off the coast of Northern California.
Japan wants tsunami boat back from N. California
A small boat that washed up in Northern California after the massive 2011 tsunami that hit Japan has been claimed by a city that was devastated in the disaster.
The Triplicate (http://bit.ly/10XL5VE ) newspaper in Crescent City reports that officials in the Japanese city of Rikuzentaka are in a “giddy state of shock” and would love to get the boat back.
Rikuzentaka spokeswoman Amya Miller says hours after photos of the 20-foot boat were posted to Crescent City‘s Facebook page, a teacher from the Japanese high school’s marine sciences program said the vessel was theirs.
Humboldt State University geologist Lori Dengler says she posted the photos recently after a university librarian translated the name of the high school from the boat.
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N. Calif. fireman on medical call grazed by bullet
Police in Northern California arrested an 88-year-old man after he started shooting at Berkeley firefighters who were tending to him and grazed one of the responders.
Authorities say firefighters were treating the man at his Berkeley home for an unknown medical problem at about 1:45 a.m. Monday when he began resisting their efforts.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/11hzqCl ) the man started firing from a handgun after firefighters called police.
A police spokeswoman says one firefighter was grazed by a bullet when it hit and destroyed a pager-like communication device he was wearing on his belt. He was treated at the scene and did not need to be hospitalized.
The man’s name wasn’t released. He was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
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3 charged in sexual abuse case previously cited
Authorities say the three boys arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a 15-year-old Northern California girl who later took her own life were initially cited on misdemeanor allegations in the case.
Santa Clara County sheriff’s Lt. Jose Cardoza told the San Jose Mercury News (http://bit.ly/17ahlHh) that the investigation in September turned up only enough evidence to support citations for misdemeanor sexual battery.
Deputies arrested three 16-year-old boys last week on suspicion of sexual battery against Audrie Pott, a Saratoga High School sophomore who hanged herself last fall after an explicit photo was circulated of the alleged assault.
Cardoza says the boys weren’t taken into custody when they were first cited, and he didn’t know if they had appeared at any juvenile court hearings.
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Limitless: Ted Cruz Values Freedom
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz recently visited California and was among the featured guests at the Lincoln Club of Northern California’s spring seminar. He spoke of his vision for America which stands in striking contrast with Barack Obama’s.
Senator Cruz was the youngest Solicitor General in Texas; trained at Ivy League Schools (Princeton and Harvard) on the East Coast. He has authored more than 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and argued 43 oral arguments, according to his website.
Senator Cruz introduced his wife Heidi, who worked for Condoleezza Rice when Rice served in the White House as National Security Adviser. Then, Heidi handled Western Hemisphere policy. Now, she is Vice President of Goldman Sachs in Houston, Texas.
When Senator Cruz first met Heidi’s family – missionaries who were vegetarians – he celebrated Christmas dinner with them. When asked how a vegetarian Christmas differs from Christmas in Cuba, Senator Cruz said that it’s mostly the same – except that the entree never arrives. He talked of the Cuban tradition which includes roasting an entire pig.
It’s stories like these that endear you to Ted Cruz, who, liked any good Texan, is polite, likable and approachable.
Cruz spoke of protests of a speech he gave at U.C. Berkeley right when Facebook began. He talked about Berkeley’s passionate involvement and suggested students stay engaged and make it a better world. Unlike some on the left who criticize Cruz, he feels that people who disagree with him are not stupid or evil. He suggests approaching people with a more friendly debate demeanor –
“Pretend it is your mother. You cannot convince anyone otherwise.”
Unlike most liberals who’d like to stick a fork in the GOP, stating that the party is “done”, Cruz doesn’t think Republicans will give up –
“Just because we got clobbered in 2012 doesn’t mean we’re done”.
Senator Cruz defines the economic pie as ever-changing. It doesn’t stay stagnant with 47 percent dependent on government. His philosophy, much like other job-creating Republicans is to have a larger economic pie by creating jobs and more taxpayers, enabling more people get a piece of the pie.
He has advice for Republicans who got caught up in the 2012 rhetoric. He believes the party focused too much on acknowledging those who have already succeeded rather than convincing those who want to achieve –
“Rather than saying ‘You built that’ – say – ‘You can build that.’ “
Cruz discussed debt to his young daughters and says that debt has gone from 10 trillion to 16 trillion in the last four years. It clearly troubles him to think that the cost of our bloated government today will be passed on to his kids to pay.
He talks about Obamacare stating that those who will be hurt most by Obamacare are those who may need help the most. Many of them are of Hispanic origin, living in Texas. He talks of the court cases against Obama, stating that in the end we’ve got to win the argument, because the future of America’s economic health depends
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3 teens arrested for assault after girl's suicide
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.”
Allard said students used cell phones to share photos of the attack, and that the images went viral.
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Lt. Jose Cardoza said it arrested two of the teens at Saratoga High School and the third, a former Saratoga High student, at Christopher High School in Gilroy on Thursday. The names of the suspects were not released because they are minors.
Cardoza said the suspects were booked into juvenile hall and face two felonies and one misdemeanor each, all related to sexual battery that allegedly occurred at a Saratoga house party.
The lieutenant said the arrests were the result of information gathered by his agency’s Saratoga High School resource officers. He said the investigation is ongoing, and Los Gatos police also continue looking into the girl’s September suicide.
The Associated Press does not, as a rule, identify victims of sexual assault. But in this case, Pott’s family wanted her name and case known, Allard said. The family also provided a photo to the AP.
The girl’s family members did not comment and have requested privacy until a planned news conference Tuesday. Her father and step-mother Lawrence and
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