Not guilty verdict after a 15-year-old girl called the police to report that she had been raped by two other teenagers beside a swimming pool at an apartment complex in Stuart, Florida.

Not guilty verdict after a 15-year-old girl called the police to report that she had been raped by two other teenagers beside a swimming pool at an apartment complex in Stuart, Florida.

She identified her attackers as 18-year-old Martin Lyke and 16-year-old Kenneth Atkins. She said that she was on a lounge chair near the pool and that Lyke forced her to engage in oral sex while Atkins straddled the chair and raped her. A condom was found nearby that had traces of the DNA of the victim and of Atkins.

Three weeks later, Lyke and Atkins were charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators. Atkins was charged as an adult.

Lyke pled no contest and was sentenced to six years in prison. Atkins went on trial in Martin County Circuit Court in July 2004.

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