Danish rape case: Victim fails to identify juvenile accused

The hectic legal proceedings in the Danish woman gangrape case today took the prosecution by surprise, as the victim who supported the case in the trial court turned hostile in the Juvenile Justice Board where she failed to identify the three minor offenders.
The day began with recording of statements of two Danish police officers who told the trial court judge that the victim was "extremely traumatised" when she returned to Denmark after the incident and was still to recover from it, for which she moved a plea at the end of proceedings seeking compensation.
However, the prosecution case supported in the trial court by the 52-year-old victim suffered a setback in the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) as she failed to identify the three minors as the perpetrators of the heinous crime which she had said had caused her "immense trauma".

Atul Shrivastava, a Special Public Prosecutor in the case, said that in an in-camera proceeding before the Board, the Danish woman, who had identified three of the six adult accused in the trial court, said "she has not seen the three juveniles before".
"It is incorrect," was her answer to the question by the prosecutor that "these three juveniles are the real culprits who did the crime with you".
As he did not receive an affirmative answer, Shrivastava asked the JJB presiding officer to take on record that she was "resiling from her earlier statement" and was permitted to cross-examine her.