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NEW YORK PROSECUTORS have filed papers recommending that all charges in the sex assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn be dropped.
A published edition of the prosecutors’ motion outlined that the case would rely solely on the evidence of Nafissatou Diallo, the chambermaid at the centre of the allegations against the former IMF managing director.
While “the physical, specific, and other evidence establishes that the defendant engaged in a hurried sexual encounter with the complainant,” the filing said, “it does not independently establish her claim of a forcible, nonconsensual encounter.”
It added that while Diallo was considered reliable at the time the complaint had been filed, later investigations “severely undermined her reliability as a witness in this case.”
Diallo and her lawyer met briefly with prosecutors earlier today. It had been widely expected that prosecutors would announce plans to reduce or drop the charges.
Additional reporting by AP
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having read this article and in particular the final paragraph i think the heading is misleading and should be changed.
The use of statistical language here is also sensationalising the subject. While the probability may be 8 times larger, if the probability of a young man passing mutations is 1/10,000 and the probability of elderly man passing them on is 8/10,000 it is still a rare event.
Need more info to realise the true meaning of these “stats”
Heard another one yesterday saying older mothers made better…whatever actually can’t remember…there’s much crap ‘surveys’ our there, parents please ignore, make you afraid to have kids!!!
older mothers were more likely to have kids with better speech and less accident’s because the kids are more precious 2 them. wat bullshit like who’s kids aren’t precious 2them? I’m 21 and my 2 halfyear old son has brilliant speech and can hold a conversation. a 45year old I know has a child the same age and he’s had stitches in his head a dislocated wrist and I can never understand a word he’s saying… js sayin.
Eire if your child’s speech is on a par with your text speak rant you may have to reconsider his intellectual prowess
Charlie Murphy. seriously? fool
Mutations are the reason the human race has survived. Harmful mutations generally disappear in a population. The rest imbed the ability to adapt to changing environmental stress. Look at sickle-cell syndrome in Africans which helps resist malaria.
The potential for autism and bipolar is being hugely exaggerated by this research.
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