Updates

DC sources tell us that the 15 year old special education student accused of raping a classmate turned himself in this week, (I assume in the company of a guardian). He has been charged with sexual assault in the story we first brought you about the Southeast 15 year old who was attacked in a bathroom of Melvin Sharpe elementary after participating in a Martin Luther King Day program. The girl’s teacher and an assistant principal could also face charges according to our sources. They didn’t contact police, the girl’s family or emergency medical personnel following he attack. The victim’s mother took her to Children’s hospital that night where it was confirmed that she was raped. DC school spokesman John White says their internal probe in to how the rape was handled is still underway.

 

 

Another update to a Nine News Now story from this week. One of the three men (Two of them homeless) who helped save a drowning man from the Potomac this week is now in jail. It turns out that Deleon Butler is really Wayne Hall and he was mistakenly released from jail where he had been doing time for driving a stolen car. Hall, 47 of no fixed address was recognized by DC police officers when he showed up at Harbor Police headquarters to help arrange a tribute to him and his two rescue partners. Hall is back in jail and finishing up a 20 month sentence. I interviewed Hall this week during which time he said of his heroics “if I do nothing else at least I can save that I helped save a life”.