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Fox News Dan Springer on controversial Burien rape case

Aug 2, 2017, 4:44 PM

File photo, police tape (AP)...

File photo, police tape (AP)

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Fox News correspondent Dan Springer joined Dori Monson on KIRO Radio to talk about a case in Burien, where a 19-year-old woman was bludgeoned and raped after leaving her gym.

The woman had “extensive injuries” to her head, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and her right ear was almost completely torn off. The male perpetrator, who has been identified as 23-year-old Salvador Diaz-Garcia, has been charged with second-degree assault and second-degree rape. Diaz-Garcia, who is an unauthorized immigrant and DREAMer, faces possible deportation.

 

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