There's plenty of evidence that there were girls involved that got together to plan on a way to frame the boy. Including quotes from their social media chats. As well as one of the girls posting on social media how much she liked her boyfriend (the boy accused of rape) AFTER he was arrested.
Let that sink in. Maybe take a few moments to actually check out the article, read the evidence, and then... what was that thing I said repeatedly?
Oh, yeah.
The thing is that there really isn't anywhere near enough evidence available to you or to me to judge anyone in this situation.
We have nothing but a few snippets of the story. Why incite a witch-hunt?
There's just so much we don't actually know at the moment.
Both sides of the story sound fucked to the extreme, and as such we really should hold off on saying who is and is not guilty.
There's just nowhere near enough evidence to actually know what's going on right now.
At the moment though we're missing over half of the actual story. Only time will tell if this guy is innocent or guilty.
Really though, we got nothing here. Nowhere near enough evidence.
Let's hold off on judging until more evidence comes out. I'm not saying the girls are all collaberating to throw this guy behind bars, I'm also not saying this guy is guranteed to be a rapist. There's only a fragment of the story out at the moment.
All we know is that some of these girls collaberated to frame the boy. Some. Not all. Some. Three, to be precise. Three out of the thirteen.
So. As far as evidence goes we have "Thirteen people accused this guy of raping them." And "Some of the people accusing him admitted through social media that they were intending on framing him to 'teach him a lesson'."
Just... seriously. Why incite a witch-hunt?
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/28731607/court-hearing-set-in-high-school-rape-investigation
PHOENIX (KSAZ) - 19-year-old Tyler Kost appeared in a Pinal County courtroom Monday. His attorneys are pushing to have the social media records of his accusers put into evidence in the case.
They argue Facebook Group Chat messages between some of his accusers prove he is not a serial rapists. Instead, they say he is a victim of a shocking conspiracy perpetuated by the girls who were out to get him.
"Over a year ago Mr. Kost was publicly accused of being a serial rapist. What we know now is that there was a group of girls who conspired against Tyler to put him in jail. They succeeded in that, and Tyler has now been in jail for over a year based on those lies," said Christine Whalin, Kost's attorney.
In their motion, the defense team included some of the group Facebook messages obtained by Pinal County Sheriff's Office detectives between the alleged victims one week before the allegations were reported. Saying; "Tyler needs to be taught a lesson" and "We should sacrifice him to Satan."
Another exchange read; "Let's (expletive) with his mind and car" and "Exactly, I'm down.", along with "Yes, I already know this is going to be so much fun!"
The young women also set a date to watch the 2006 movie "John Tucker Must Die" in which a group of high school girls exact revenge on a cheating ex-boyfriend.
"The chats saying "We should all just hangout, and watch the movie, and plan."
As for why the girls would make the abuse allegations up, Kost's lawyer says the goal was to "Take revenge for him being a player."
The judge said he would take the defense's request to get the social media records of the other alleged victims under advisement. He could render a decision in a few weeks.
The Pinal County Attorney also issued a brief statement on the case saying, "Tyler Kost is presumed innocent unless proven guilty."