Slate looks at Twin Falls controversy

In Slate online, columnist Michelle Goldberg comments on the Twin Falls controversy involving a sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl by three boys, the youngest of whom was 7. The assault has blown up into a community controversy that has gain the attention of the nation:

L ast month, rumors began to ricochet around the city of Twin Falls, Idaho, that three Syrian refugees had raped a 5-year-old girl. Some in town said that the attackers, all juveniles themselves, held the girl at knifepoint. It was said that they urinated on her naked body and that one of the boys’ fathers high-fived his son when he learned what he had done. At a City Council meeting on June 13, several residents of Twin Falls, population 44,125, questioned officials about the alleged crime; a man named Terrence Edwards linked it to the terrorist massacres in Orlando, Florida, and San Bernardino, California. More here.