N.Y. prosecutor to retry Reese Hopkins in rape case

bostonherald.com ^ | 07/18/2011 | Jessica Heslam

[massmike]

Manhattan prosecutors plan to retry Reese Hopkins this fall on charges of sexually molesting two 11-year-old girls, prompting the ex-Boston radio yakker to lash out at Big Apple investigators over their crumbling sexual assault case against French financier Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

“The Dominique Strauss-Kahn case is a perfect example of the district attorney’s office and the special victims units’ policy of you accuse, we arrest without properly investigating or vetting the accuser as they would any other crime,” Hopkins said last week.

The former WRKO-AM (680) radio host has been free on $20,000 cash bail since April, when his child rape trial ended with a deadlocked jury. Hopkins was accused of sexually molesting the girls and forcibly raping one of them in his Manhattan apartment in 2004.

Hopkins, who spent 2 years behind bars awaiting trial, said he now lives in Connecticut and has a full-time “desk job” in New York.

“I look forward to facing my accuser a second time to finally put the lies and the pre-judgment of my innocence, or guilt, therefore, behind me,” Hopkins said.

[massmike]

Reese Hopkins

[gibsosa]

Just read this guy’s nightmare story... Wow, he is in my prayers.

[ReeseOnTheRadio]

I do thank you for your kind thoughts. Nothing is worse than not being believed when you are innocent. Just read the details of my case and you will understand the frustration of the truth never getting out to the public.