Police: Gang rape outside school dance lasted over two hours **Trigger**

sara1981 · 10-27-2009, 02:40 AM

Police: Gang rape outside school dance lasted over two hours
Police: Gang rape outside school dance lasted over two hours - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- A California high school student who police said was gang raped in a two-and-a-half-hour assault outside a homecoming dance remained hospitalized in stable condition Monday, three days after she was flown from the attack scene in critical condition.

"Based on witness statements and suspect statements and also physical evidence, we know that she was raped by at least four suspects committing multiple sex acts," said Lt. Mark Gagan of the police department in Richmond, California.

Investigators said as many as 15 people, all males, stood around watching the assault but did not call police or help the victim, a 15-year-old student at Richmond High School in suburban San Francisco.

"As people announced over time that this was going on, more people came to see and some actually participated," Gagan said.

"There is one individual in custody who has made some spontaneous statements that have led me to believe that he is culpable for what happened," Richmond police Lt. Johan Simon said. That 19-year-old suspect -- described as a former student at the school -- was arrested soon after he fled the scene and will face charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping, police said.

Authorities have interviewed the victim, and the search for other attackers and bystanders who watched and did not report the rape is a "full court press," according to Gagan.

"We have checked Facebook and YouTube to try to find any revealing evidence," Gagan said. "We're looking in particular to see if anyone posted any video of the incident."

Five other individuals were detained at the scene but not arrested, Simon said.

The attack occurred on school grounds as the annual homecoming dance was under way inside the school Friday night, authorities said.

The victim was found unconscious and "brutally assaulted" under a bench shortly before midnight Friday after police received a call from someone in the area who overheard people at the assault scene "reminiscing about the incident," Gagan said.

"She ended up with those guys under her own will because she knew one of the boys who had gone to the high school before," Gagan said. "Right now, we're looking at toxicology reports to determine her blood-alcohol content and to determine if she was drugged."

According to authorities, the victim was flown to an area hospital in critical condition. She was in stable condition Monday, police said.

In an interview with CNN affiliate KTVU, Charles Ramsey, a school district board trustee, said there previously were plans approved for Richmond High School to install a new surveillance system next January.

The surveillance system "is tied to local law enforcement," Ramsey said. "It would have had a more visual view on what was going on and people would have been alerted and knowing that this was here."

Said Gagan: "This just gets worse and worse the more you dig into it. It was like a horror movie after looking at the evidence. I can't believe not one person felt compelled to help her."

***VamPyroX*** · 10-27-2009, 03:04 AM

And... no one did anything? What the hell is this world coming to?

Bottesini · 10-27-2009, 12:01 PM

That's depressing.

Reba · 10-27-2009, 02:15 PM

That poor girl!

There are some disgusting people in this world.

The perps are bad enough.

The spectators are chilling. Are they so numbed by reality TV that they view violence as entertainment?

Maria · 10-27-2009, 02:31 PM

How disgustin'! I am glad that the girl is okay and survived. She will never be the same after this incident. This is really humiliatin' and embarrassin' for her. Hope she will sue them for emotional trauma and everythin' she went through.

sallylou · 10-27-2009, 03:30 PM

Trigger warning, please!

souggy · 10-27-2009, 03:32 PM

Yep.

Asked the OP to tone down on these kind of news since it's re-emerging.

Not surprised. In my hometown, we had a supposedly "innocent" paddling haze turned into a 50-person spectacle that did not end well.

Frisky Feline · 10-27-2009, 03:39 PM

those guys who did crime, witnesses and did not do anything to report have no life. they have no future. period!

Babyblue · 10-27-2009, 04:16 PM

That is a damn shame!! I know in my daughters school if you hang around to watch a fight at school, they get suspended for just being there, and not running to report it.. They consider the people viewing it as instigators.

Poor Girl.

Steel X · 10-27-2009, 09:20 PM

Interesting...no one did anything...what a hero they are!

This is quite disgusting and stupid...

They do that to anyone I know, I kick their ass so hard their skin get peeled off the whole ass.

deafskeptic · 10-27-2009, 09:42 PM

It's enough to make my blood boil. I can't believe these people.

sara1981 · 10-29-2009, 12:14 AM

updates:

Five arrested in alleged gang rape; juveniles being charged as adults
Five arrested in alleged gang rape; juveniles being charged as adults - CNN.com

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Richmond, California (CNN) -- Police investigating the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl have arrested five people, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

Three juveniles and two adults are in custody in the rape on Saturday, said the Richmond police spokesman, Lt. Mark Gagan. The three juveniles will be charged as adults, he said.

Gagan said the suspects will face several felony charges in the incident, including "rape in concert," and that the suspects would all face the possibility of life in prison if convicted.

Gagan also said the victim was released from a hospital Wednesday, four days after the attack.

Authorities have described the incident as a two-and-a-half-hour assault that occurred on the Richmond High School campus, in the Richmond community north of Oakland on San Francisco Bay.

Gagan said police arrested three of the suspects Tuesday night. They included Salvador Rodriguez, 21, as well as a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old whose identities were not released because they are juveniles, he said.

A 19-year-old, Manuel Ortega, and an unidentified 15-year-old were arrested earlier, he said.

On Wednesday, students, teachers and area residents gathered to defend their city's image.

Those gathered at Richmond High School witnessed "a response that is really from the heart, and also from the gut, given the mourning, the sadness, the anger that has arisen since Saturday," Prishni Murillo, executive director of Youth Together, an area youth leadership organization, said at a news conference.

"We do not want this incident to be an excuse to further criminalize the young people of this city," Murillo said.

Senior Norma Bautista echoed that sentiment.

"We are not criminals," she said. "We come here to this school because we want [there] to be a change."

Lorna McClellan, a Richmond High teacher, said it was wrong that the community was being portrayed as a place that does not stand up for victims.

"Yes, something horrible and atrocious happened on our campus, and yes, blame lies with the school officials, with the teachers, with the district, with the police, with the students were afraid to speak up. But it's important to realize that our community realizes this is a problem, and we are taking active steps to fix it," McClellan said.

Gagan said Wednesday that police expect to make further arrests.

As many as 10 people were involved in the assault in a dimly lighted back alley at the school, police have said, while another 10 people watched without calling 911 to report it.

A 1999 California law makes it illegal not to report a witnessed crime against a child, but the law applies only to cases in which the child is 14 or younger.

Police have posted a $20,000 reward for anyone who comes to them with information that helps arrest and convict those involved in the attack.

The victim was found unconscious and "brutally assaulted" under a bench shortly before midnight Saturday, after police received a call from someone in the area who had overheard people at the assault scene talking about the incident, police said.

The girl was flown by helicopter to a hospital, where she was admitted in critical condition.

Steel X · 10-29-2009, 12:32 AM

Prison for life eh? Let's see if the justice system can really do well on this part.

deafskeptic · 10-29-2009, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Steel X

Prison for life eh? Let's see if the justice system can really do well on this part.

Let's hope so.

sara1981 · 10-30-2009, 04:23 AM

updates from CNN

Sixth person arrested in homecoming gang rape
Sixth person arrested in homecoming gang rape - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- Police arrested another teen Thursday, the sixth suspect jailed in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on a northern California high school campus.

Jose Carlos Montano, 18, was arrested on charges of felony rape, rape in concert with force, and penetration with a foreign object, said Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan.

Montano was arrested Thursday evening in San Pablo, California, a small town about two miles from the city of Richmond, where the crime took place.

Montano, who was held in lieu of $1.3 million bail, is accused of taking part in what police said was a 2½-hour assault on the Richmond High School campus.

Police said as many as 10 people were involved in the rape in a dimly lit back alley at the school, while another 10 people watched without calling 911.

The victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition, but was released Wednesday.

Four other teenage suspects were arraigned Thursday on charges connected to the rape.

Cody Ray Smith, described by the court as older than 14, pleaded not guilty to charges of rape with a foreign object and rape by force.

Two other juveniles, Ari Abdallah Morales and Marcelles James Peter, appeared with Smith at the Contra Costa County Superior Court, but did not enter a plea. The court described Morales as younger than 16, and did not give an age for Peter.

All three juveniles, who wore bulletproof vests at the hearing, were charged as adults.

A fourth person, Manuel Ortega, 19, appeared separately without an attorney and did not enter a plea. He did not wear a protective vest.

Another person, Salvador Rodriguez, 21, was arrested Tuesday night, but he was not in court Thursday.

Berry · 11-01-2009, 10:55 AM

I still remember Kitty Genovese and every one talking about how could an entire neighborhood watch a girl be murdered and then proudly tell the press "I don't get involved!"

"Oh," said the wise students of the social mind, "We have now discovered an new phenomena, 'The Bystander effect'."

sara1981 · 11-04-2009, 01:05 AM

another updates from cnn!!

7th person arrested in gang rape
7th person arrested in gang rape - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- A seventh person has been arrested in a gang rape on a high school campus in northern California, police said Tuesday.

Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan did not identify the suspect. Of those arrested so far, one was released for lack of evidence.

Police say as many as 10 people were involved in the rape October 24 in a dimly lit alley outside Richmond High School, where a homecoming dance was taking place.

Another 10 people watched the attack without calling 911, police say.

Authorities say the attack lasted for more than two hours. The victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition, and was released Wednesday.

The victim's parents issued a statement that urged those in the community to work to ensure that such an attack never happens again.

"If you need to express your outrage, please channel your anger through positive action," they said, according to the Rev. Jim Wheeler, who said he was the family's pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Richmond.

Steel X · 11-04-2009, 03:33 AM

Wow...alot of ppl arrested that fast. Hope Justice serves 'em right.

sara1981 · 11-05-2009, 01:26 AM

update:

Parents of California teen raped at school: Stop the violence
Parents of California teen raped at school: Stop the violence - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- The parents of a 15-year-old girl who was gang-raped on a California high school campus urged the community Saturday to channel its anger over the event "through positive action," according to a pastor.

At a Saturday community event at the campus where the attack took place, the Rev. Jim Wheeler, who said he was the family's pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, read a statement from the teenager's parents.

"Stop the violence," Wheeler read. "Please do not respond to this tragic event by promoting hatred or by causing more pain. We've had enough violence already in this place."

Police say as many as 10 people were involved in the rape on October 24 in a dimly lit back alley outside Richmond High School, where a homecoming dance was taking place.

Another 10 people watched the attack without calling 911, police say.

Five people have been arrested in connection with the attack.

A sixth person who was arrested is expected to be freed because of insufficient evidence, CNN affiliate KGO reported.

Authorities say the attack lasted for more than two hours. The victim, who was taken to a hospital in critical condition, was released Wednesday.

The parents' statement urged the community to work to ensure that such an attack never happens again.

"If you need to express your outrage, please channel your anger through positive action," they said, according to Wheeler.

"Volunteer at a school. Go help a neighbor. Be courageous in speaking the truth and in holding people accountable. Work toward changing the atmosphere in our schools and in this community so that this kind of thing never happens again.

"Please do not let this happen again."

sara1981 · 11-05-2009, 01:28 AM

another updates from cnn:

Ask the right question about gang rape
Ask the right question about gang rape - CNN.com

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Editor's note: Ron Avi Astor, Ph.D., is a professor in the Schools of Social Work and Education at the University of Southern California and is the author of "School Violence in Context," published by Oxford University Press.

(CNN) -- The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: "Why are our kids so messed up?" "Why didn't these students try to stop the crime?" "What's happening in our schools?"

These are fair questions, and commentators in the media have provided familiar answers. The purported rape is another sad example of today's self-absorbed and uncaring youth. It was the media's glorification of violence that caused it. The horrific act shows how sociopathic brains develop. But it seems as if the majority of commentators have settled on the idea that the Richmond students did nothing because of the "bystander effect": The more people involved in a criminal incident, the less likely any one of them will intervene to do something about it.

Unfortunately, this "What's wrong with our children?" approach leads to a dead end, because it results in a sweeping moral condemnation of the schools, families and students in this community. These perpetrators committed a heinous act that should be widely condemned. But a discussion that focuses exclusively on the immorality of these deviant young men does not provide solutions that prevent gang rape from happening.

Talking only about the bystander effect wrongly suggests that the vast majority of teens would not call for help. Take Richmond. Claims of depraved acts by a few kids have served to demonize an entire student community.

Rather than demonize all teenagers in Richmond High School, we should be asking another question: "What can we do to prevent such heinous acts from happening?"

The answer to that question leads to a wholly different kind of dialogue, one that may surprise. It is primarily students, the reputed problem, who can best prevent acts of violence on campus.

Make no mistake about it. The alleged two-hour-long gang rape on October 24 was an extreme form of school violence. It unfolded not far from the gym where the school-sponsored homecoming dance, supervised by school staff and police officers, was being held. And students, police say, largely perpetrated it.

Research since the massacres at Columbine High School (1999) and Virginia Tech (2007) has taught us a lot about how to prevent such school violence. Chief among them is that school staff and security should patrol campuses, especially violence-prone areas, during and after school events.

According to a CNN report, a friend of the alleged victim saw blatant failures in safety precautions. She said, "I looked outside of the gym, and I saw 12 to 15 guys, sitting there, with no IDs. The officers -- not only did they not check the IDs of those students or men sitting outside of of our campus, but the security officers who are employed here did no job of checking either."

Virtually all students and teachers at a school can identify these dangerous hot spots. At Richmond High School, one such spot is "a dark alley near the back side of the school," the site of the purported rape.

As CNN reported, school officials had even requested that video cameras and more lights be installed in the area, but they were never installed. The alleged rapists and student bystanders probably knew that no one would be patrolling the area.

As important as campus patrols are in reducing campus violence, the most powerful form of prevention is believing that students can help stop crime from happening. They didn't stop the purported rape at Richmond, a skeptic might say. A possible reason is that they were not educated on how to stop it. .

Research shows us that students often know ahead of time when and where violence will flare up on campus. Strong social networks and the widespread use of cell phones and text messaging rapidly convey such information.

This dynamic can fuel violence, as officials say it did at Richmond High School. It can also prevent violence. Thousands of potential school crimes, including violent ones, have been averted on campuses across the country because students alerted school officials before the crime occurred.

Students and families using a hot line in Colorado were credited with preventing more than 206 incidents of school violence from 2004-06. As of summer 2009, this one hot line fielded 1,687 reports that resulted in crime prevention or intervention.

Alert students have also helped prevent replays of the tragedies that occurred at Columbine and Virginia Tech by tipping off school officials. Several years ago, student reports stopped a Columbine-style massacre plot, employing bombs, napalm and automatic weapons, at a high school in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

This year, tips from students and alert teachers and police disrupted a student-massacre plot, featuring pipe bombs and firearms, at Hillside High School in San Mateo, California. Since Columbine, school shootings have been averted in New Bedford, New York, and Covina, California, to name some others.

And at Richmond, it was an 18-year-old bystander, overhearing others talking about the incident, who reported the crime.

Unfortunately, the public is largely unaware of these frequently heroic acts by high school students and their teachers because they don't often get national media attention. That lack of information has helped obscure the important roles that students and their responsive teachers play in preventing school violence.

But the evidence is clear. Students who know what to do when they witness school violence, or when they have a strong sense of impending violence, will become anonymous heroes. But they need to be taught what to do, which phone numbers -- including hot lines -- to call and which school officials or police department can be trusted to act on their reports. Students also need to feel confident that they can report trouble without fear of retribution from their peers or being called a snitch.

It is up to the teachers and administrators who run schools to teach their students these procedures. They need to convince students that they will listen and respond consistently to their reports of violence or possible violence.

Yes, local police need to develop trusting relationships with students and the overall community, or nothing will be reported. But the job of preventing violence on campus belongs primarily, if not solely, to the schools.

Rather than wring our hands about the so-called immorality of today's students, we should embrace them as full partners in the prevention of violence on campus. Morality is not the issue. If students are educated on what to do when the threat of violence arises and are encouraged to follow the procedures, they can be trusted to do the right thing.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ron Astor.

JaneHamson · 11-05-2009, 02:34 AM

Im so disappointed! Im more disappointed by the people who did NOTHING! come on what the hell?!
disgusting!

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souggy Ear of a Doubt Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Victoria, BC Posts: 2,403	Yep. Asked the OP to tone down on these kind of news since it's re-emerging. Not surprised. In my hometown, we had a supposedly "innocent" paddling haze turned into a 50-person spectacle that did not end well. __________________ Souggy's Blog Warning! Contains skewed comments & inane ramblings. May cause spontaneous human combustion

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Steel X Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 13,081	Interesting...no one did anything...what a hero they are! This is quite disgusting and stupid... They do that to anyone I know, I kick their ass so hard their skin get peeled off the whole ass. __________________

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10-27-2009, 02:15 PM	#4 (permalink)
Reba Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 20,803	That poor girl! There are some disgusting people in this world. The perps are bad enough. The spectators are chilling. Are they so numbed by reality TV that they view violence as entertainment?

10-27-2009, 02:31 PM	#5 (permalink)
Maria Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: FLORIDA Posts: 10,140	How disgustin'! I am glad that the girl is okay and survived. She will never be the same after this incident. This is really humiliatin' and embarrassin' for her. Hope she will sue them for emotional trauma and everythin' she went through.

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Frisky Feline Provoke, Pounce, Purr Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,712	those guys who did crime, witnesses and did not do anything to report have no life. they have no future. period!

10-27-2009, 04:16 PM	#9 (permalink)
Babyblue Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 7,539	That is a damn shame!! I know in my daughters school if you hang around to watch a fight at school, they get suspended for just being there, and not running to report it.. They consider the people viewing it as instigators. Poor Girl.

10-27-2009, 09:42 PM	#11 (permalink)
deafskeptic Empress Skeptia Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,528	It's enough to make my blood boil. I can't believe these people. __________________ Left ear implanted with Med-El on April 24 2007. Activated on May 9th.

10-29-2009, 12:32 AM	#13 (permalink)
Steel X Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 13,081	Prison for life eh? Let's see if the justice system can really do well on this part. __________________

11-01-2009, 10:55 AM	#16 (permalink)
Berry Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oroville, Ca. Posts: 712	I still remember Kitty Genovese and every one talking about how could an entire neighborhood watch a girl be murdered and then proudly tell the press "I don't get involved!" "Oh," said the wise students of the social mind, "We have now discovered an new phenomena, 'The Bystander effect'." __________________ . Living life in the sandbox.

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Steel X Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 13,081	Wow...alot of ppl arrested that fast. Hope Justice serves 'em right. __________________

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JaneHamson Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	Im so disappointed! Im more disappointed by the people who did NOTHING! come on what the hell?! disgusting!

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