Brendan David Dennison is charged with the attack on the couple, who later jumped off the balcony to escape their attacker. The Chinese girl died whilst the Korean boy suffered a serious leg injury. Dennison attended court on the 6th of November and is due for another appearance on the 11th of December. His lawyers have indicated that he will plead guilty to most of the charges.
Dennison is charged with five counts of aggravated sexual assault while armed with the knife - three involving sexual intercourse with the woman and two with her boyfriend.
He is also charged with indecently assaulting the boyfriend and using the knife to threaten the two surviving women, aged 19 and 20, with intent to have sex with them.
Dennison is further charged with robbing one of those women of $50 and the other of her Hello Kitty wallet containing $120 and her personal identification.
In relation to each of the four students, he faces a count of detain with the intention of obtaining sexual gratification.
Finally, he is charged with inciting the boyfriend to commit an act of indecency on the three women, and on Dennison, and of inciting one woman to commit an act on the student who later died.
SMH
The cousin of Dennison, known only as "Evan", has been in contact with the Chinese girl's mum and has told them that a film is being made called "The Land of Dreams". The reason he stated for making the film was to "comfort the victim's parents".
I really have to question whether this is the right thing to do. "Evan" probably feels guilty that a member of his family commited this crime and thinks that making a movie will clear his guilty conscience. A film about the ordeal will force the parents to relive what their kids went through, and this would reopen the wounds that have been slowly healing for the past year. I seriously doubt they would want to watch it in the first place. I hope that "Evan" changes his mind.
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