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Cops: Hofstra student's rape was planned by group
Quick ReadAll four suspects are charged with five counts of first-degree rape.
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Kevin Taveras, left, and Stalin Felipe are are led out of Nassau Police headquarters to be arraigned on rape charges in Mineola. Taveras and Felipe have both been cleared of all charges after the Nassau D.A. said their female accuser had changed her story, saying the sex was consensual. (Sept. 15, 2009)
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-- News Update: Hofstra student lied about gang rape, DA says. Click here to read the full story.
A Hofstra University student who had her cell phone snatched by a man she was dancing with at a campus party was unwittingly lured back to a dormitory, tied up in a bathroom stall and gang raped by him and four of his friends -- one of them a student, police said Tuesday.
The attack, which...
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