A 15-year-old Teenager Was GANG RAPED Outside Of Homecoming School Dance That Lasted For Two Hours While More Than A Dozen People WATCHED!!!

I chose this video created by Oakland Latinos United. He adds his commentary after the news. I just want to warn you that he uses vulgar language to describe his disdain and disgust. Nevertheless, I couldn't agree with him more. This is a HORRIFIC story of a young girl who was pinned down and RAPED by a dozen guys who KNEW DAMN WELL WHAT THEY WERE DOING! They need to be PUNISHED to the full extent of the law. Rape is the same as MURDER! And ought to be treated as such. Oh and those who CHOSE to WATCH and CHEER should be charged with ACCESSORY TO THE CRIME! These onlookers are just as GUILTY as those who committed the CRIME for NOT doing ANYTHING to stop them and GUILTY for NOT reporting it.

Our youth across America NEEDS to be taught and re-trained that this is WRONG to watch a crime being committed and should be reported to an authority figure or dial 911. Just put it this way to them, ask them "What if that was you? How would you want someone else to react if you were being attacked, murdered or raped?" We NEED to teach our youth to treat others the way they would like to be treated and if someone is NOT treating them with RESPECT, then they shouldn't want them to be a part of their life! We NEED to teach our youth that it's NOT COOL to mistreat others or be an observer of somebody else being mistreated. My grandmother used to always say, "Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are."

Another point I would like to make is where the heck was campus security? I mean come on! Apparently, the students were going in and out of the dance giving a minute by minute account of the rape. How could the chaperones (adults) if there were any, NOT NOTICE something going on outside!?!?!?! The school, at least when I went to school used to always have ADULTS present. Whether they were school staff members or teachers observing the dance and making sure there was no funny business going on in or outside of the dance. Where the heck were they? Think about it, if you were asked to be a chaperone at a school dance wouldn't your EYES and EARS be open? I mean if you see students running in and out of the dance telling whomever what's going on outside wouldn't that have RAISED YOUR ANTENNAE? Wouldn't you want to find out what the commotion was and where it was happening and to whom? The school has absolutely NO EXCUSE, this young girl was being RAPED for OVER 2 HOURS. Where the heck were the ADULTS?

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ABC News
School Official Says It Was Parents' Job to Protect Teen From Homecoming Rape
written by Sarah Netter
Tuesday October 27, 2009

An official with the school district where a 15-year-old girl was brutally gang raped outside the homecoming dance said they were praying for her recovery but also defended school security, saying that when the students leave the dance, "we don't take them home."

Police in Richmond, Calif., believe that more than a dozen people may have either watched or participated in a vicious rape of a 15-year-old Richmond High School girl that lasted for more than two hours in a dimly lit corner of the sprawling campus.

ABC's San Francisco affiliate KGO reported today that 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.

West Contra Costa Unified School District spokesman Marin Trujillo told ABCNews.com that there were four police officers, five chaperones and a host of teachers to supervise the dance, and that when the event was over a sweep was made of the campus to make sure everyone had gone home.

The corner on the outskirts of school grounds where the girl was attacked, he said, was not part of the search.

According to news reports, the girl left the high school's homecoming dance alone around 9:30 p.m. Saturday to get a ride home with her dad.

Instead, she met up with a group of people who were drinking on the edge of campus.

"The series of events that occurred over the next 2½ hours got more severe and more vicious to where she was ultimately gang raped and beaten, and her injuries were so severe that she had to be sent to the hospital in a helicopter," Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan told KGO.

Trujillo described the mood at Richmond High School is "somber." Counselors and members of the school's crisis team have remained at the school as students -- some who are still not sure who the victim is -- wonder if every absent girl was the one who was attacked.

Trujillo said that parents and students are "understandably scared."

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and with the child," he said.

Trujillo said the school district was not notified officially about the incident until the next morning, though some officials had heard about it on the news.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that police were called only after someone not at the scene heard about what was happening.

Police officers, the newspaper reported, found the girl semi-conscious, curled up near a lunch table.