[lady lawyer]

“Perhaps these are the elements of the police report (not facts) that the girls later stated they felt pressured to make?”

I’ve never seen any suggestion that the girls backed off their allegations. Was this in another article?

[GladesGuru]

Perhaps what is being referred to is that the girls wanted teh cahrges dropped.

They, even though still minors, knew the law was “doing an Acton”.

Interestingly, the girls maturity was some years ahead of both the boys and arguably ahead ofm far too many of the adults in this case.

[rednesss]

"I’ve never seen any suggestion that the girls backed off their allegations. Was this in another article?"

Other than the fact that they all stopped cooperating with the prosecution and had the charges reduced and then dropped altogether??

"Prosecutors initially charged the boys with felony sex abuse. But after two of the alleged victims refused to cooperate, the charges against each were reduced last May to five counts of third-degree sex abuse and five counts of harassment, all misdemeanors."

[Valpal1]

In this partial transcript from Juvenile Court, two alleged victims say they were not feel threatened by Cory Mashburn or Ryan Cornelison and felt pressured to make untrue statements during interrogation.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2007/07/documents_in_yamhill_county_sp.html

[SteveH]

I’ve never seen any suggestion that the girls backed off their allegations. Was this in another article?

Via Michelle Malkin (Aug. 14):

The Oregonian obtained a copy of the police report:

Although the contents weren’t discussed at Monday’s hearing, The Oregonian was able to review a copy. In the Feb. 28 report, a female Patton student and her mother dispute Roache’s account of an interview with the girl a week earlier concerning “party-boy” dancing.

In his initial police report Feb. 22, Roache said the girl told him that Mashburn and Cornelison writhed up against her in a sexually suggestive form of dance. Roache described the moves as “party-boy dancing” from the movie “Jackass.”

But in the Feb. 28 report, taken by a different McMinnville police officer, the girl said there was never any touching involved and that she did not believe Mashburn or Cornelison should be charged with a crime.

Two other female students also disputed Roache’s police report during a hearing in February. The girls testified that they felt pressured under questioning from Tillery and Roache to say things that weren’t true.

It's perhaps advisable to use "allegedly" when describing actions taken by defendants in cases such as these that do not go to trial.