By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — All three teenagers arrested for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman in Central Park this week were released Wednesday because the victim told several versions of the story and would not be a credible witness, a law enforcement source said.
Accused rapists Robert Gonzalez, Shawn Martinez, and Kelvin Dalrymple, all 18, had been arrested and charged with raping a woman who claimed she was attacked in in the park on her way to a Bronx homeless shelter in the early hours of Sunday, June 7.
The woman, who reportedly took PCP with the men, ran out of the park topless and looking for help when she encountered a cab driver who called 911, the New York Post reported.
But investigators heard several versions of the woman's account and decided that she was too intoxicated to properly recall the events, the source said.
"Her story changed, literally, countless times," the source said of the woman.
There were no formal charges filed against Martinez and Dalrymple, who were released Thursday before they'd even been arraigned. Gonzalez, who turned himself in and was the first to face the charges, was released from jail. The charges against him will likely be formally dropped.
There's a court appearance scheduled for Gonzalez Friday morning.
His lawyer, James Koenig, said "we'll have a better idea" of what's happening with his charges on Friday.
Earlier this week another alleged rape case appeared to fall apart. The lawyer for alleged serial rapist Taurean Williams, 25, said his client would likely serve six months in jail after prosecutors failed to indict him on rape charges a second time. The Harlem man had dodged one rape charge only to allegedly return to the scene of his crime while out on bail to sexually assault another woman.
"We think all of these guys are bad guys," a law enforcement source told the Post. "And as an investigator you want to put these kind of people away. But sometimes you can't make a case. You can't go in front of a jury with these victims and get a conviction."
