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Photo by ZUMA Press Denise Honore, 42, of New Orleans, along with her two daughters, Elisia, 11, and Gwendolyn, 13, not shown, spent the night in the Superdome while Huricane Katrina pounded the area in New Orleans, LA, August 29, 2005 M onday. By the time Brian Thevenot, a reporter for the Times-Picayune, arrived at the New Orleans convention center on Monday, Sept. Police Chief Eddie Compass had told the media that people were being raped and beaten inside. The New York Times had r eported that evacuees witnessed seven dead bodies lying on the floor, an d a 14-year-old girl who had been raped. Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and other television news channels had repeated stories of rape and murder there. The convention center was empty when Thevenot arrived, except for about 2 50 members of the Arkansas National Guard and other rescue officials in the immediate area. The last evacuees had been bused out over the weeken d Thevenot interviewed guardsmen, who showed him four bodies that had b een deposited inside a food service entrance of the building.
B rooks and several other guardsmen said they had seen between 30 and 40 b odies in the convention center's freezer," Thevenot reported in the Time s-Picayune the following day, adding that Brooks told him one of the bod ies was a "7-year-old girl with her throat cut." Want to read the rest of this article and all of Salon for FREE? Just watch a brief advertisement to get a FREE Site Pass for today. Or you can join Salon Premium today and rea d Salon without ads.
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