http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/us/four-sentenced-in-gang-rape-of-11-year-old-texas-girl.html?_r=0
Newspaper Reading: Preparation for Group Discussion
Student: Aubree Mendez
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WORD
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PART OF SPEECH (Noun, Verb, Adjective,
Adverb, etc.)
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SYNONYM OR DEFINITION
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1. Co-Defendants
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Noun.
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A defendant who has been joined together with one or more
other defendants in a single action.
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2. Prosecutors
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Noun.
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A lawyer who conducts the case against a defendant in a
criminal court. Also called prosecuting attorney.
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3. Aggravated sexual assault
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Unknown.
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When one commits an aggravated assault of a sexual nature
and who’s wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant.
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3) To help with the context for the words
you selected, highlight or underline the sentences
that contain the three words you gathered.
All had pleaded guilty earlier this month to aggravated
sexual assault of a child, and each must register as a sex offender
once released from prison.
“Unless one of the remaining co-defendants
has something brand new, we are not going to see any more trials from this
point forward,” said Grant Scheiner, a Huston criminal defense attorney not
involved in the case.
Defense attorneys and prosecutors
also declined to comment, citing a gag order in the case.
4) In one sentence, explain
what the article is about. You can use the following sentence starters to help
you: “This article is about…” “The main idea in this article is…”
This article is about four men who
pleaded guilty in the repeated sexual assault of an eleven-year-old Texas girl
were each sentenced Friday to fifteen years in prison.
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