“There’s no doubt in my mind that what happened to me on the night of September 11th was a sexual assault,” said the teen girl who says she was assaulted by a number of men at a party in Pitt Meadows in 2010.
“No one in their right state of mind, including myself, would let something like that happen to them willingly. I’ve often wondered why women never reported when they were sexually assaulted, and now I know. It’s a ‘he said’, ‘she said’ thing and it’s easy enough for the offender to get off by saying she consented.”
“I’m devastated that this case did not proceed. Let me clarify, that it did not proceed because they were missing some evidence. Not because he didn’t do it. What happened is downright sickening and repulsive, and it makes my family and I wonder what kind of world this man has to do something like this to someone.”
“To anyone who thinks this is ok, I’d like you to take your mother, girlfriend, wife, sister, neice, daughter, any female you know, and go do this to them. It’s wrong and we all know it.”
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“Someone with any morals would have never done this. Not to mention, to let people watch and take pictures. It makes me sick even thinking about it. There’s still evidence out there, and it could be what we need to make this case a go. But due to the code of silence it’s still out there somewhere.”
“Someone saw something, anything, and it’s still out there, and I’m asking you to please come forward. No matter how small and insignificant you may think it is, please please please come forward.”
“It would mean the world to me and my family.”
The charge against Colton McMorris, 19, of Maple Ridge, was stayed – meaning they are put on hold and can be reactivated within a year – because of the Crown prosecutor’s view that it didn’t have enough evidence to support a conviction, according to a spokesman for B.C.’s criminal justice branch.
The girl, who was 16 at the time of the incident in September 2010, cannot be identified because of a publication ban against her identity, he said.
Police at the time of the alleged attack claimed a number of men were involved and that the victim was given a date-rape drug but was conscious. McMorris was the only one charged in the attack.
Video of the incident was broadcast on social-media sites, which resulted in two other child pornography charges.
Dennis Warrington, 19, of Langley, who is charged with production and distribution of child pornography, is scheduled to be tried in September.
Another teen, who cannot be named because of his age, was charged with the same offence. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of making or publishing obscene matter and a judge ordered him to write an apology to the girl and to write an essay on the pros and cons of social media.
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