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 From: DEMI_GOD_@SHAW.CA 
  
 Rape charges against three high school students will be dropped 
 after the 15-year-old girl who said she was assaulted in the school's 
 bathroom recanted her story, officials said. 
 The Howard County state's attorney's office will formally drop all 
 charges against Roderick D. Rudolph, 15, Christopher S. Berry, 16, 
 and Demitris R. Myrick, 18, all of Ellicott City, in the next few days, 
 the state's attorney said Thursday. 
  
 All three had been charged as adults with rape after the incident on April 
 15. 
  
 The decision came a day after prosecutors, noting an "abundance 
 of new information" in the case, agreed to support the bid of the 
 three teenagers for release on $20,000 unsecured bond. 
 By Wednesday's bail review, the girl's story had "changed 
 substantially," Howard State's Attorney Timothy J. McCrone 
 said. But the complete retraction did not come until later the 
 same day, he said. 
 "The evidence we have now no longer supports the allegations," 
 McCrone said. 
 McCrone's decision ends a week that began with allegations 
 of rape in a boys' bathroom at Mount Hebron High School. 
 Student witnesses came forward to support the suspects' 
 insistence that any sex acts were consensual. 
 The girl initially told investigators that three teenagers took 
 her into a boys' bathroom during the lunch hour, where one 
 held her wrists, another engaged in sexual acts with her, and 
 a third watched the door, according to court documents. 
 A medical examination found physical trauma consistent with 
 physical assault, the documents said. 
  
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