Hofstra University Student Recants Rape Story

In this photo taken Sept. 13, 2009, Nassau County Police officers question Hofstra University...

In this photo taken Sept. 13, 2009, Nassau County Police officers question Hofstra University student Rondell Bedward, seated, in a dormitory hallway, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Bedward is one of four men charged with luring an 18-year-old Hofstra student into a campus dormitory restroom and raping her in the early morning hours of Sept. 13, police said. A fifth suspect remained at-large Wednesday, Sept. 16. The four detained suspects are, clockwise from upper left, Bedward, Stalin Felipe, Kevin R. Tavares and Jesus L. Ortiz.

(Sean Gates/Hofstra Chronicle/AP Photos)

Authorities in New York say the Hofstra University student who told police that she had been gang-raped by five men on campus has recanted her story.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said in a statement released late Wednesday that the 18-year-old told law enforcement officials that the sex was consensual.

Rice says Nassau County Judge Robert Bruno then dismissed the charges against four of the men and ordered their release.

The woman had accused the men, including a Hofstra student, of taking her cell phone at an on-campus nightclub and luring her into a dormitory men's room and sexually assaulting her early Sunday.

Four of them, Rondell Bedward, Jesus Ortiz, Kevin Taveras and Stalin Felipe, were arrested and arraigned on rape and other charges.

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