PORTLAND, Maine — A judge has dismissed a sexual assault charge against a Somali refugee after ruling that prosecutors didn’t prove he was an adult.
Mohammed Mukhtar of Portland was charged after he allegedly broke into an apartment in May and assaulted a woman who lived there.
Prosecutors said documents showed Mukhtar was born on Jan. 1, 1994, which would make him 18. Police said he gave his age as 18 when he was interviewed.
But Mukhtar’s attorney successfully argued that he was born on Oct. 25, 1994, making him 17. He said the U.S. government assigned Mukhtar and his six siblings and mother a Jan. 1 birth date when they fled Somalia.
Prosecutors told the Portland Press Herald they could pursue the case through the juvenile court system.
They better not drop it for this!!!!
Why might i ask wasn’t the name of the judge and the attorneys named in the article? The so called juvenile was named.
Maine loves to accept all these Somali immigrants. Too bad they are committing a huge amount of violent crimes.
Careful, Maine81! Can’t say that or else the politically-correct, diversity-loving leftists will start screeching about anti-Muslim attitudes, even if you are correct.
Really? What exactly is the % of Somali crimes as opposed to non-Somali crimes in Maine? and cite where you have obtained your information from so the rest of us are up to date. Thanks.
So it’s legally OK for 17 year olds to rape women? And lawyers wonder why theirs is the most despised profession.
Let’s keep our borders open and let all these scumbags into the country. Let’s keep giving them free housing and free medical and free food and free, free, free and watch how they repay us.
Old enough to break into a house and assault a person, old enought to go to prison, boy we do good bringing all of the people who have a hard life into this country just so they can stab us in the back! Take him to court, send him too jail and when he is done serving time, ship him back to where he belongs, his homeland !
Why was the name of the judge not published?
BDN really needs to hire some real reporters, not just someone to repeat what the AP puts out.
so this means if your a somali 17 or younger you can break into houses and asssault whomever you wish . I am going to read this article again that cant be right.