Heartbreaking video of a high school football star had a rape charge against him dropped after sixteen year old girl confessed that the rape never happened
Heartbreaking video of a high school football star had a rape charge against him dropped after sixteen year old girl confessed that the rape never happened A high school football star had a rape charge against him dropped after sixteen year old girl confessed that the rape never happened. He spent six years falsely imprisoned and broke down when the case was moved to dismissed. The case involving Wanetta Gibson and Brian Banks began in the summer of 2002. Brian Banks was a 16-year-old high school football star at Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Southern California when he was accused by Wanetta Gibson, a classmate, of rape in an empty stairwell on campus. Banks was tried as an adult and received a sentence that included nearly six years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Banks always maintained that the encounter with Gibson was consensual and they never had intercourse. He took a no-contest plea on the advice of his lawyer, who believe...
