Over what many consider a light sentence for Austin Wilkerson who raped a fellow student. Jaclyn allen has been covering this case. Reporter today in a statement, the rape survivor calls the sentence light. Plenty of people agree. More than 17,000 people have signed a petition asking the lawmakers to impeach the judge. It could have reporter when becca kales heard about what happened to the cu student raped, it hit close to home. This is a hot button issue for people. Nobody wants to think of their daughter or sister or girlfriend going off to college and getting raped. Reporter the survivor says after the attack, she attempted suicide saying her life has been ruined socially, psychologically, academically, and financially. Which is why the sentence for Austin Wilkerson, two years and probation, has sparked national outrage. It is sure as hell not sitting well with the victim. Reporter it is being compared to the stanford rape case in which brock turner was given six months for sexually assaulting an unconscious girl. This is ridiculous. This is the second one in a few months. One here, one in california. Reporter about a Million People signed a petition to oust the california judge so kales decided to launch a petition here calling for the legislature to impeach judge patrick butler. It sets this state to handle these kinds of cases with what essentially is a slap on the wrist. This is not. This is not justice. This is not a punishment. Reporter butler is not up for reelection until 2020 and we have reached out to him for an interview about this. A Spokesman Says under the judicial code of conduct, judges are not allowed to comment on cases. Jaclyn allen, denver 7. Thank you. Just onethird of rape survivors will report the crime unreported. The nations largest antisexual Violence Organization looked into why that is. And here are the top three reasons. They fear retaliation, they thought police wouldment do anything, or they thought it was a personal matter. Narold girl left home alone drowns in a pool. Tonight, her mother is behind bars. The drowning happened in an apartment complex off florida and parker road in denver. Sally mamdooh is live at the complex with an interview you will only see here on denver 67. You spoke with the girls grandfather. Reporter he is very distraught. He cant believe that his granddaughter who he dearly loved is now gone. He tells me this nightmare started last night while he was at work. He got the terrifying call his granddaughter, sevenyearold shefra died at the apartment. Custody under suspicion of child abuse resulting in death. Reports say sse wasnt feeling well at the time. Left her Children Home alone and went to walmart. She was gone ffr an hour. Here is what the grandfather has to say. She do something wrong. She is very, very wrong. Why you got to leave . Reporter the grandfather tells me that this is just a tragic mistake. His daughter was a good mother. He is telling me that he to bury his granddaughter next weekend. He is hoping because he doesnt have enough to cover funeral expenses. In you would like to help, head to our denver 7 app. She was only two days away from turning eight years old. Reporting live in arapahoe county, sally mamdooh, denver 7. A colorado fire chief is behind bars accused of stealing from the department he once led. Curtis vogul and his wife stole equipment and money from the he was chief. He left in april. He is now the eagle county fire chief. The department placed him on leave and they tell us they will talk about the arrest at next weeks meeting. And we all just want a fair shake right . But tonight, denver 7 investigates why the Denver Public School District is accused of treating people differently based on race. Investigative reporter ryan is live. People are very angry. Reporter very angry. They feel changing. Prime contractors believe they are not getting a fair shake. Not getting business from dps because they are hispanic. I talked to lots of minority and women businesses that feel the same way. But they are afraid to say something. Reporter fear can be debilitating. The fear of retaliation is what ron roybal and his brother mike they are guilty of racial discrimination. The attitude is i dont care if it is for the public or not. Im the king and i will make the decision. Reporter ron and mike founded the Roybal Corporation in 1981. They are both architects and have roof of all the big projects they worked on all over the year. Airport concourses, museums, the u. S. Mint here in denver. But they hardly had any big ones at dps lately. Mint, museums, yet Public Schools . No. We are doing restroom remodels for Denver Public schools. Reporter they have been pushing the district for the last several year to be more inclusive on its contracts. Then, in 2014, disparity report confirmed what they had been saying that dps underutilized women and whole. Since then, the roybals say district leaders have not done enough to fix it and the perception remains the same. He point is they are not our community and respecting our community. Reporter the brothers just filed suit against dps in federal court. The superintendent would not talk about the specifics of the case but agreed to speak with denver 7 investigates. He say it is district cares deeply about its women and minority contractors. We firmly reject any allegations of racial or ethnic discrimination of any kind. Reporter he points to numbees the district put together showing that it is hiring them in greater numbers, exceeding its own goal but look closer. The amount of dps dollars going to minority and women owned prime contractors like the roybals is still at about 3 or 4 . We are only 18 months into this. Are there ways to improve our processes . Yes. Reporter the slow progress is why the roybals at least as it relates to them wants the courts to hold the district accountable. If an organization like dps submitting proposals, then they can play the game with all of us. Reporter you are thinking maybe the roybals are just maybe their business is just bad business. Tonight at 10 clock, we will show you how they got passed up on a project meaat for minority and women own businesses. We will see you here at 10 00. Thanks. Jeffco students return to district is dealing with lead in the water. They found elevated levels in a fourth of the samples. The tests started back in june after Jefferson County heads closed due to lead. They are working to fix the problems and they have posted test results online. And take a look at this picture. Parker police put out the alert for this missing teenager. 16yearold Sabrina Ellis ran or has ties to kentucky. A man who pitched out teen girls could spend the rest of his life in prisonment some of paul burrmans victims were only 15 years old. And we have a new investigation involving forged signatures and it is being taken right to the attorney general because of changes made following a series of denver 7 reports. Marshall zelinger is live now. This me caught by those paid to check them. Reporter yeah, last month, a group wanning to have us vote on raising the minimum wage turned in 100,000 signatures. The people paid to actually check them found something funny. Take a look at this. Three pages worth of signatures appear to be in the same handwriting. You tell me. Because of our investigation forged signatures, they changed their internal policies. That definitely made it clear to us that we didnt have in place a good chain of command as you said it. In order to make sure that stuff got escalated to the level of management where someone can make a decision that allows you to do Something Like send it to the attorney generals office. Reporter there are about 50 qqestionable signatures identified by the secretary of one of them counted as they determined if it made the ballot. It counted because the name matched the address. As we uncovered in our investigation, until the legislature changes the law, the secretary of state only matches does this match this side . It cannot or does not until the law changes, verify the actual signature was written by the person it is supposed to be. Reporting live, marshall zelinger, denver 7. Thank you marshall. Pot clubs could start popping up in denver depending on how you vote. Of signatures needed so the secretary of state still needs to check them all out. The ballot measure would not only open the door for pot clubs here in denver, but, restaurants and bars could also apply for permits. More americans are lighting up and smoking pot. There is a new poll out showing the number of users has nearly doubled in the past three years. One in eight people admits to using pot. And not surprisingly, many of them are here in the west where several states including colorado have legalize all right, bring on the swedish meat balls. The Broomfield City Council took the first steps toward welcoming ikea. They are working to buy 123 acres near i25 and east baseline road. The store is still several years out. Hillary clinton, donald trump. We could find no shortage of candidates for president. Why this list will show up on your ballot. And hail rips apart homes and shatters windshields. Catastrophic store. And third times the charm. Okay, so it may not be the crime of the century, but it is enough to get one woman fired up in Jefferson County. Egging her home ken caryl ranch. Reporter this home has not been targeted once, but three times. And now, the owner has leverage. She has the culprits caught on camera right in the act. She is also passing around the flyer offering a reward. It ii shocking. Reporter shocking is one word coming home to this reporter these stains running down ginas roof are from eggs. The first time, yeah. Oh my gosh. You know. This is a mess clean it up. Reporter it was after is second egging she decided to take action placing cameras around her home. It is not the best way to spend 500. Reporter that is how she caught the culprits right in 3 the act. This Surveillance Footage shows somebody passing by the home. A few minutes later a few people un up to the driveway. A girl points to the house and they launch a handful of eggs. One nearly hitting the camera. After that, they took off. We dont have any issues with our neighbors. We dont have teenagers who live here. Reporter gina has no clue why someone would target her home. It wont come off. Reporter but she is sick of it. Now you are probably thinking it is just a prank. But for gina . It is not a harmless prank. It damages property. Makes you feel unsafe. Bullied. Reporter she has reported the eggings to deputies and handed out flyers to neighbors. Hoping someone can identify the kids and so we can ask them to stop. And they have the wrong house. Reporter Jefferson County deputies have received other complaints of eggings around the area. But they say that this case is different because it is obvious that the people or the culprits are specifically targeting this home. Gina says no one else in the reporting live, brendaliss gonzalez, denver 7. Donald trump is coming to aspen at the end of the month. The aspen times report he will attend a private fundraiser august 25. The cost per couple between 10 and 25,000. And, donald trump has a lot of work to do if he wants to win colorado. A new wall street journnl poll Shows Hillary clinton with a 14 point lead. 4632 . And this election seon they are not happy with either major party candidate. In colorado, you have choices. We checked the secretary of states website and found 21 candidates who filed the paperwork to appear on the November Ballot for president here in colorado. That is not including the write in candidates. To get on the ballot you fill out paperwork and pay 1,000. Hailstorm did plenty of damage. Estimates top 25 million. You may remember the town of pine bluffs wyoming got hit really hard. The storms pushed into Northern Colorado dropping hail the size of tennis balls. Insurance agents have counted more than 12,000 separate claims. Happening tonight, some showers of the meteor shower variety. Last night was the peak of the perseids but the earth is still passing through the of cosmic dust left behind by the comet swifttuttle. It is about the size of sand, gravel, grape nuts and they travel 35 miles a second and burn up 50 miles above the surrace of the earth and they radiate from high in the northeast sky. So look toward the northeast if you can get away from city lights. Midnight to 4 00 a. M. It should be good viewing tonight. The peak of it was last night. Let me show you what is different variety in the form of showers and thunderstorms to the south of the denver area. A couple of severe warnings in el paso county. Southern lincoln county. These dont look like they will be a big deal for us. As far as the metro, just a hint of a couple of showers in Idaho Springs and conifer. These are more sprinkles than anything else. Look at that. Witness the view from the top of our building. It 178. Beautiful degrees downtown. 82 at dia. Very comfortable this morning. Only three above the record low set back in 2004. So, here are the highs across the state today. It has been a nice day. A little cold front slipped through. Right along the front is where we are seeing most of the action. That will push southward and between midnight and 9 00 at middight. Move out of the state leaving mostly clear skies. Loaf temperature at 55 in denver. 51 in fort collins. Day. There will be just a few widely scattered storms developing in the afternoon and into the evening. I think most areas stay dry. And, quite pleasant with a High Temperature of 83 in denver. Greeley. Fort collins. A cool 66 expected at leadville. Temperatures in the 60s and the 70s in the higher elevations. Low to mid 80s under mostly sunny skies down here. For tonight, skys will be partly cloudy. A low of 55 degrees. It will be a nice one. High temperature at 83. Very few scattered light storms. Sunday looks like a winner. We will put the bright spot there. Very nice with a temperature of 87. Monday, tuesday, a little warmer, but still mainly dry. Then we will pick up a bit of late season monsoon moisturr coming back in the middle of next week with the best chance for storms next thursday. Overall, thats a pretty pleasant, dare i say late thank you mike. Neet on 7 sports extra, broncos are perfect after preseason game number one. Enjoyed the preseason. Got the win, we will continue to get better. With that, welcome into sports extra. Jahmai webster back here with you. For the fifth straight year, broncos won their preseason opener an it cam at a 220 shutout after tte chicago bears. The hot button topic, the quarterback competition. So who want to be take a look at what 1 and 1a did. Mark sanchez, trevor siemian. Sanchez got the start with a touchdown and interception. That is where he took a step . Ack. 88 yards, no points, but no turnovers. It appears this race remains closed. Now, paxton lynch made the largest sleeve. His presence was felt. Six for seven, 74 yards. Lynchs quarterback rating was 110. 7. He found the areas he thought needed growth following the win. It felt good getting the first one out of the way. Tonight but i didnt. But we move the ball pretty well. A couple of penalties with the younger guys. Day seven. A heartbreak for the u. S. Womens soccer team. The ladies failed to become the first ever world cup and hope solo called the swedes cowards. I will update you more tonight on the late show. Well, the o2. Lined up the middle. Bbunces over to the second baseman. Out onto first. Double play. Crazy. Minor league baseball. It goes off the pitcher then bounces off the umpire and hands right to the shortstop. He is easily one of the wildest plays in baseball. I dont know what im doing right now. Right now on the list. Shake up the make up routine with the hot new trends. Plus but the passwords on lock down. Easy tricks if make it harder for trackers. Were going to figure out everything about the person. Slice it and drink it. Have to try. Team usa is dominating at the o olympics. What if they were competing against animals. They would have no chance. Michael phelps has hit legendary status and thats the legendary win. So yeah, he is the fastest human swimmer going through the water at about 6 miles an hour an hour. Of course out of the water were loving watching the track and field events and its not quit as exciting if the olympians had to compete against animals. I mean put runners up wart hogs and then dont even try to long jump. Snow leopards can go 50 feet. That can do what simone biles does. At least we have that. Amazing. I guess racing animals is an interesting experiment and the signing to pay the employees 70,000. We have the update on that story. Were going a minimum00 pay race for everybody that works here. The gravity payment shocked the world and his employees when he made that announcement last year. [ applause ] but many wondered if it could be successful, and now its plan to see. Shrinking his own salary and bringing up everybodies with a sure thing. We have hired 50 new pl employees. Not tt just, but theres also been a baby boom. It was the best money that i spent in my life
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