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RICHMOND, Calif. -- Police believe that as many as 20 people may have either watched or participated in a vicious rape of a high school girl that lasted for more than two hours outside a homecoming dance.
Rather than call for help, some of the students took pictures, police say.
Police have arrested two suspected rapists but believe that between four and seven people could have participated while as many as a dozen stood and watched.
"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."
Police say 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.
Investigators say she had consumed a large amount of alcohol by the time the assault began.
Officers, acting on a tip, found the girl semi-conscious near a picnic table. She remains hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Marin Trujillo, a spokesman for the West Contra Costa Unified School District, said there were four police officers and three school administrators monitoring the dance, but the assault happened away from the gym.
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.
A 15-year-old student was taken away from the school Monday and was booked on one count of sexual assault.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktl...,1913458.story
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Okay. Two hours. Multiple males. Nobody said anything. For two hours. This is the kind of thing that goes beyond normal human comprehension. The only feasible thing I could think of was that she was completely wasted and didn't protest. Even then, nobody said anything.
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