Bond Denied For Students Accused Of Rape At Prom After Party
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- The prom's after party is a thing of legend for high school students ready to graduate, however, a video allegedly showing the rape of a woman by Braddock High School students has begun a social media frenzy days after the school's prom.
All four teens arrested in connection to a sexual battery at a Bal Harbour hotel will remain locked up, a judge ordered Thursday.
Prosecutors asked for 17-year-old Adan Valdes to be charged as an adult, which will be determined in a hearing at a later date.
After court, Valdes' father said, "He's a good boy. We are going to get out of this."
His attorney Alex Fox said, "The allegations are very serious and we need to investigate and get to the bottom of it and let the process take its course."
A judge also denied bond for Luis Rosello and Julio Fernandez, both 19.
In court, Fernandez's attorney argued he didn't legally assault the 21-year-old incapacitated woman but instead filmed the incident following the school prom.
The prosecution and judge saw it differently since the video is being circulated online.
"From my reading of it, he's recording it and then the victim gets further abused every time somebody plays it and watches it on the internet and he's a participant in the egregious crime," said Judge Mindy Glazer.
Classmates shared their horror on social media.
"I'm utterly disgusted by the video going around about that poor girl passed out at the Braddock prom," said one student.
Another student wrote, "I'm so disgusted about what happened to that girl after the Braddock prom. I hope they all rot the rest of their life away in a prison cell."
That's exactly where two judges said the four teens would stay.
Moments after one judge broke the news that there would be no bond, a mother cried out and collapsed in shock.
Her son, Julio Fernandez, would remain in jail along with the three other teens accused in the crime -- one in which the details are so graphic, parents were given a copy of the arrest report.
Students are still tweeting and posting, but now, the subject is how a prom after-party ended with the alarming assault.