Cops: Witnesses Didn't Help Rape Victim

[ccharles000]

RICHMOND, Calif. (Oct. 27) - Police believe as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance without reporting it.
Two suspects were in custody Monday, but police said as many as five other men attacked the girl over a two-hour period Friday night outside Richmond High School.

"She was raped, beaten, robbed and dehumanized by several suspects who were obviously OK enough with it to behave that way in each other's presence," Lt. Mark Gagan said. "What makes it even more disturbing is the presence of others. People came by, saw what was happening and failed to report it."
The victim remained hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

Manuel Ortega, 19, was arrested at the scene and was being held on $800,000 bail for investigation of rape and robbery. He is not a student at the school.
Richmond police Sgt. David Harris said he did not know if Ortega had retained an attorney.
A 15-year-old student also was booked late Monday on one count of sexual assault, Gagan said.

Police said the girl left the dance and was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group drinking in the courtyard. The victim had drank a large amount of alcohol by the time the assault began, police said.

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[tmyers09]

1. The father didn't get suspicious when his daughter never came?

to meet him for the ride home?

[SIMPLYB1980]

2. Well you know can't have any vigilante justice.

Should have called the cops and waited. :sarcasm:

K&R

[frylock]

4. why don't you don your fucking cape and underwear..

hit the streets and keep us safe, mkay?

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[noiretextatique]

3. shameful, horrific, inhumane

how can people just stand around when someone is being raped and beaten? they should be prosecuted for lack of humanity :puke:

[Incitatus]

5. That's sick.

I carry and I would have unloaded my clip into the rapists.

[Merchant Marine]

6. You carry a Mauser C96?

Cool

[TheWraith]

8. Oh, be nice. Even I accidently refer to a "clip" sometimes. nt

[raccoon]

9. Their peer group's opinion of them was more powerful than their consciences telling them

to report it.

They identified with the perps, not the victim. :grr: