Nov-06-2009911 tape released in California gang rape
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CONTENTS:- While police continue to hunt for suspects - six are in custody now - the crime has school district officials fast-tracking new security measures and counseling programs, and students talking intently about how to combat violence toward women. (More...)
- A Richmond, California woman says she "Didn't even think twice," about calling 911 to alert authorities to the Oct. 24 gang-rape of high-school girl outside of a homecoming dance. (More...)
- In a CNN interview, Kami Baker says the school district should have taken a bigger interest in beefing up security before the October 24 attack that shocked the country. (More...)
- The gang members and criminal elements have effectively held the community hostage. (More...)
- Six people ''' three adults and three juveniles ''' have been charged with rape, sexual assault, robbery and kidnapping in connection with the assault, authorities said. (More...)
- Late Thursday night, police arrested 18-year-old Jose Carlos Montano in connection to the rape. (More...)
- How many rape victims have you encountered? I'm 37 and have never met a rape survivor let alone someone just raped for 2 hours. (More...)
- The suspect, whose name has not yet been released, is being held in lieu of $1.2 million bail and is being interrogated by police. (More...)
SOURCESFIND OUT MORE ON THIS SUBJECTWhile police continue to hunt for suspects - six are in custody now - the crime has school district officials fast-tracking new security measures and counseling programs, and students talking intently about how to combat violence toward women. "Hopefully, we will all be safer eventually after this," said Kami Baker, a junior who is a close friend of the victim. "As long as no one treats her differently from before, she'll be fine," said Baker, whose rock band, Anything But Sane, played at the 2 1/2-hour rally. "She's still the same person, just less trusting now." Earlier Tuesday, the latest defendant to be arraigned in the case made his first court appearance, dabbing at his eyes as he saw his family in the gallery. Jose Carlos Montano, 18, of San Pablo did not enter a plea in his brief appearance in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Richmond. He is charged with rape in concert with force and penetration with a foreign object in the attack. Montano, his dark hair tied in a ponytail reaching halfway down his back and his hands shackled at his waist, appeared to be tearful but said nothing. He was led away to county jail, where he is being held without bail. He is the fifth person to be charged in the gang rape.
[1] The others have yet to enter a plea and were scheduled to return to court on Thursday. Police said earlier this week that they believe between seven and 10 people were involved in robbing, beating and sexually assaulting the victim, a Richmond High School student, in front of as many as a dozen onlookers outside the Oct. 24th homecoming dance. Alameda County Assistant District Attorney Dara Cashman said she decided to charge the juveniles as adults in this case because of the "extremely callous and brutal" nature of the crime. While she has prosecuted numerous gang rape cases, she said this one seemed particularly cold. She also said her office has received "expressions of outrage from around the country," mostly sent by email, about the case.
[2] RICHMOND, Calif. -- A former Richmond High student told a 911 dispatcher that people had seen a naked teenage girl lying on the ground outside the school's homecoming dance, but chosen not to call police. Margarita Vargas, who identified herself as Maggie on the call reporting the alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old freshman, said friends had told her about the girl, but that she was afraid to go look for herself. 'We haven't seen her, we heard that from two of our friends,' she told the dispatcher in the minute-long call released by police Thursday. Vargas appeared on camera for the first time Wednesday to describe her reaction to the attack and how she felt when she called authorities.
[3] RICHMOND, Calif. — A seventh suspect was arrested Tuesday in the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a high school homecoming dance while as many as 20 people watched without calling police. Police arrested an unidentified 21-year-old man from Richmond on suspicion of rape, rape in concert with force and other charges that could lead to life in prison if he is convicted, police Lt. Mark Gagan said.
[4] Richmond Police reportedly arrested a sixth male in connection to the gang rape of the 15-year-old girl outside Richmond High School while a homecoming dance was taking place Saturday night.
[5] Richmond Police chief Chris Magnus, second from left, speaks at Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif., Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 during a rally against the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside of Richmond High School's homecoming dance.
[6] After releasing one of
the six young men suspected of the gang rape of a 15-year-old Richmond High School student outside her homecoming dance, Richmond Police announced Tuesday that a seventh arrest had been made.
[7] More Arrests Made In Richmond HS Gang Rape Case A seventh arrest was made in the gang rape of a Richmond High School girl. A total of 10 men, police allege, beat and raped the girl outside her homecoming dance.
[8] Above: Area where police say a 16-year-old girl was gang raped on October 24 by 10-12 young men while as many as 20 watched. (AP photo by Noah Berger.) October 5, police in Richmond, California, released the 911 audio tape from the woman who reported the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl outside of Richmond High School. (Police initially said the girl was 15 but on Thursday, November 5, they corrected her age to 16. ) The girl was on her way home from a home coming dance. That audio from the
Contra Costa Times is posted below.
[9] One of the six young men arrested for the brutal gang rape of the 15-year-old Richmond High School student on Saturday, October 24, was released Friday night. Richmond Police said that they had insufficient evidence to hold the suspect, but.
[5] The district is implementing programming to ensure that similar incidents do not happen, including more lighting around school campuses, additional fencing, and increased roving patrols whenever students are present on campus'''whether school is in session or not. They are also developing a curriculum to educate young people on empathy, civility, respect for each other, and community violence solutions around rape and violence prevention, Mr. Thurman said. While teenage years are supposed to be filled with excitement of proms, graduation, planning for college or other post-graduate adventures, and the promise of independence, this promise of youth has been snatched away from the victim of this attack. The recent town hall meeting was an attempt to create a space for the youth, their parents and the community to open up and freely express about the incident and its impact. '''People are coming together as a community, but there's a better way for us to do this. This shouldn't have had to happen for us to finally come together,''' said 17-year-old Nicole Brice, who will be graduating from Richmond High this year. Richmond High student Nicole Brice tells The Final Call her reaction to the gang rape andthe impact that the crime has had on her, her peers and community.
[10] In the wake of the brutal homecoming gang rape, students and parents alike have some reason for reassurance. Richmond High School, the school district, and the surrounding community have all made admirable progress both towards healing and the prevention of future attacks. A candlelight vigil held last night on the edge of the school's football field attracted hundreds, and featured a statement from the victim, which was read by her church pastor.
[11] The 15-year-old Richmond High student who was allegedly gang raped outside her school's homecoming dance, sent a written message last night to hundreds of people gathered in protest of the attack. "We realize people are angry about this," the young victim said in a statement read by her church pastor.
[12] Homecoming is arguably one of the best dances in high school. The elation of finding the perfect dress; the irritation of others arriving in the same perfect dress; the butterflies taking flight as the boy you've been Facebook stalking for months asks you to dance; the bitterness that swarms as he asks your arch nemesis instead; the flashing lights, deafening music, inappropriate grinding, etc., etc., etc. Eventually, the dancing dwindles down and, for some, the events that follow are the most fondly remembered -- that is unless gang-rape is involved. A 15-year-old girl found the perfect, sparkly purple dress for Richmond High School's Homecoming Dance in Northern California -- but the color of her dress will not be what encompasses her thoughts when looking back on her Homecoming night. She allegedly left the dance around 9 p.m. Her father was supposed to pick her up but a classmate invited her to go drink alcohol in the courtyard on the school's campus. Purportedly, the girl drank a substantial amount of alcohol before she fell victim to rape, assault, robbery and ruthless passivity. It was there, on Richmond High School's property, in a place of learning, where security guards should have been patrolling the campus, that this girl was gang-raped for two and a half hours. Such an act is heartbreakingly dehumanizing all on its own, but when gang-rape becomes a spectator sport, there are simply no words. Police believe up to a dozen people watched as this 15-year-old girl was beaten and gang-raped. Instead of using their phones to call the police or an authoritative figure of any kind, many of the onlookers took pictures on their phones and made jokes, while others even opted to participate.
[13] Lights have been installed on Richmond High School's campus in an effort to increase safety after the brutal attack on Oct. 24. Contra Costa Unified School District Superintendent Bruce Harter said Monday that plans to install the lights had been in the works for sometime, but unfortunately they had not yet been installed the night of the rape, when police say as many as 10 people attacked the victim while a dozen others watched. Harter said the school board would also be accepting bids to install 120 security cameras on the campus at its meeting Wednesday night.
[14] The gang rape of a teenage girl outside a Richmond High School dance last month has become a national outrage, as well it should -- raising questions about the culpability of bystanders who watched and did nothing for more than two hours. It has forced the immediate community into deep and overdue introspection and perhaps inevitably has led to finger-pointing. The West Contra Costa Unified School District knew the campus wasn't safe: It had approved, but not implemented, a plan to install new security cameras and fencing.
[15] Last night, the West Contra Costa Unified School District approved 10 security measures around the campus and agreed to an independent investigation of homecoming dance supervision and other safety issues on campus by the county's Office of Education. Beyond the calls for concrete changes like these, the publicity surrounding the gang rape has led to discussions about race, poverty and culture.
[16] Photos: Richmond High School Gang Rape Vigil Yesterday, somewhere around 500 students, faculty, and community members showed up at a vigil at Richmond High School, where a 15-year-old girl was beaten and gang raped over over a grueling two-and-a-half-hour ordeal on October 24 during a homecoming dance.
[17] A seventh suspect has been arrested in the infamous Richmond, California gang rape. It this horrible incident, a fifteen year old girl attending a homecoming dance was gang raped by up to ten individuals over a 2 1/2 hour time period in a dimly lit and notorious hangout on school grounds.
[18] RICHMOND, Calif. — A seventh suspect has been arrested in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance.
[19] News of the gang rape, robbery and beating of a 15-year-old girl at Richmond High School's homecoming dance was shocking and horrific.
[20] RICHMOND, Calif. -- The 15-year-old victim of a gang rape outside Richmond High School's homecoming dance last month issued her first public statement Tuesday, which was read at a rally and vigil on the campus Tuesday afternoon.
[2] Gagan said detectives believe Montano had a "bigger role than others" in the two-and-a-half hour gang rape outside Richmond High School's homecoming dance on Oct. 24.
[21] RICHMOND -- Police today arrested a man they consider a main participant in the Oct. 24 gang rape of a 15-year-old student outside a Richmond high homecoming dance, while prosecutors filed charges against a fifth person.
[22] Prosecutors have filed charges against 19-year-old Manuel Ortega, 18-year-old Jose Carlos Montano, and Marcelles James Peter, 17, Ari Abdallah Morales, 16, and Cody Ray Smith, 15. The 15-year-old Richmond High School student was on her way to meet her father after leaving a homecoming dance when she stopped off to hang out with some young men in a dark courtyard. Police reported that she imbibed a considerable amount of alcohol and was soon attacked by at least ten young men.
[7] "We don't want to go back there because we're scared," Vargas, a former Richmond High student, confided to the dispatcher. Police previously reported the victim was 15 but said Thursday she is 16. She left the homecoming dance at the school gym about 9:30 p.m. intending to call her father for a ride home, but a classmate called to her from a dark courtyard on the north side of campus as she passed by, and she instead went with him to hang out with a group of young people who were drinking there.
[23] Prosecutors last week declined to file charges against Salvador Rodriguez, 21, of Richmond, who was released from custody Friday. They cited insufficient evidence to prosecute him, although the police investigation continues with an examination of forensic evidence. The victim left her homecoming dance about 9:30 p.m. Oct. 24. Before she called for a ride home, a classmate hanging around in a dimly lit campus courtyard with a group of other teens and young adults called out to her. She joined them, and swiftly became incapacitated with strong drink. The attack lasted about two hours, with different people joining in during its course, and many more passively watching, or even egging on the attackers by jeering and taking cell-phone pictures.
[22] 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.
[24] The Richmond High School girl who was gang raped after leaving a homecoming dance delivered a message Tuesday evening to hundreds of people shaken by the attack and hoping to bring about a positive change in its ugly wake - "violence is always the wrong choice."
[1] RICHMOND, Calif. (FinalCall.com) - The family, friends, and community of a 15-year-old White girl who was allegedly gang-raped outside her homecoming dance at Richmond High School, were still grappling with how such a heinous act could occur and how to ensure that it doesn't happen again. They convened a town hall meeting in the school's auditorium on October 31 and made a plea for peace and safety. '''Please do not respond to this tragic event by promoting hatred or by causing more pain. We have had enough violence already in this place,''' said Pastor Jim Wheeler of First Presbyterian Church of Richmond. He read the family's prepared statement to approximately 200 students, parents, school officials, and residents.
[10] "We are still waiting for the analysis of the DNA evidence which takes several weeks." The parents of the 15-year-old California girl who was sexually assaulted by as many as 10 men and teens outside a high school homecoming dance Oct. 24 released a statement this weekend asking that the incident provoke change at the school. "Please do not respond to this tragic event by promoting hatred or by causing more pain," said the statement from the victim's parents, read by Rev. Jim Wheeler of the First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Calif.
[25] "But let the anger cause change, change that is necessary to keep our children, our neighbors and our friends safe." Her statement is in response to some local people who have talked of exacting vigilante violence against the young men who either took part in or watched the attack on Oct. 24. The pastor, Jim Wheeler of the First Presbyterian Church of Richmond, praised the assembled 500 students, parents and area residents for their "heart and emotion" in support of the victim. He added that he believes she is recovering well, "but she will have a long way to go," the SF Gate reports. Members of the girl's class held a candlelight vigil for their friend as they listened to speeches and watched performances in her honor.
[12] No one has tried to blame the victim. The students at Richmond High School have shown maturity beyond their years - participating in rallies against violence and pressing school authorities about security. There is every indication that both the community and the justice system are treating this case with the seriousness it deserves. These are all things that reflect well, not poorly, on Richmond. As for the young men involved in the attack, it may be comforting for us to dismiss them as "animals" or "monsters." These cases pop up over and over again, with different names but the same sordid details. That suggests common threads of hideous human behavior - the way we behave in mobs, our unwillingness to "get involved," our willingness to hurt other people - that we need to recognize in ourselves, even as we condemn other people. Over the next several months, the students at Richmond High School will need plenty of support - and yes, increased security - to handle their feelings of trauma and distress. The officials and adults around them must provide what they need.
[20] 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. A discussion that focuses exclusively on the immorality of these deviant young men does not provide solutions that prevent gang rape from happening.
[26] At a antiviolence vigil and rally outside Richmond High School on Tuesday, November 3, a statement from the 15-year-old gang rape victim was read by DeAna Schlau of Community Violence Solutions: "Violence is always the wrong choice. We realize people are angry about this but let the anger cause change that is necessary to keep our children, our neighbors, and our friends safe. We thank everyone for their love, support and their ongoing prayers."
[27] Wednesday, November 4, 2009 : RICHMOND, Calif. - The white streamers were everywhere - worn as armbands, headbands, neckties, leg-bands - as hundreds of Richmond High School students gathered on the football field with teachers, parents and community members to express their support for the victim of a horrendous gang rape on the school grounds and their determination to act together to prevent future violence. Speakers emphasized building a culture that rejects racist and sexist actions and comments and fights back against the underlying social conditions in which such attitudes flourish.
[28] Some of the informed came out to observe and may have participated in the gang rape as well. The 15-year-old victim's father said he attempted to call her on her cell phone several times but got no answer. A former Richmond High School student called 911 after the incident when they overheard a conversation between young males bragging about the gang rape.
[7] Of course, the suspects are still innocent until proven guilty. This isn't very comforting to many, as pretty much everyone wants to see those guilty of attacking the Richmond High School gang rape victim locked away or even put to death. What about all the other students at Richmond High School? According to CBS, student Janet Gutierrez now fears for her safety. While she doesn't feel at risk while she is in school during the day, she is scared to walk around the
campus later in the day or evening when it is dark outside.
[5] Although his name was not released, Gagan said that the investigation into the gang rape of the 15-year-old in the courtyard outside Richmond High School
on October 24 was ongoing and that the Richmond Police were actively pursuing more suspects.
[7] Richmond Police say there has been a seventh arrest in the gang rape of a high school girl following a homecoming dance.
[14] The Richmond Police Department continues to investigate a gang rape outside a homecoming dance that has garnered international attention.
[14] Earlier Tuesday Richmond police officers, assisted by a SWAT team, arrested a 21-year-old man, the seventh suspect taken into custody in the Richmond High homecoming gang rape case, authorities said.
[2] The Richmond High School gang rape case angered many, as a 15 year old girl was gang-raped by about 10 attackers while a group of onlookers watched without calling police.
[29] "But let the anger cause change; change that is necessary to keep our children, our neighbors and our friends safe. We thank everyone for their love, support and ongoing prayers." Even though the victim has been released from the hospital, she still has a long way to go until she's recovered. Many think she will never fully recover. What happened to this young girl is a heinous act that no human being should ever be subject to. Despite the fact that the victim and her family want people to use their anger to turn a negative situation in to a positive situation, many people are still outraged. Some of the suspects of the Richmond High School Rape case had to wear bullet proof vests to their court appearances.
[5] People hung around the entire time, police say, passing along information about the attack by word-of-mouth until it reached the ears of Vargas's boyfriend about 11:30 p.m. Friends and family of Marcelles Peter appeared outside the Richmond courthouse Thursday afternoon with placards proclaiming his innocence. "I'm his best friend. I've known him my whole life," said 16-year-old Thalia Aguilar, a Richmond High sophomore. "He didn't do it. He just passed by (the assault), then he came over to my house. He is innocent." The victim released a statement Tuesday through a rape crisis counselor, urging the community to channel its anger over the attack to constructive ends.
[23] Police arrest more people in connection with the alleged rape of a teen girl. "Please do not respond to this tragic event by promoting hatred or by causing more pain," said the statement from the victim's parents, read by Rev. Jim Wheeler of the First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Calif, according to ABC's KGO-TV in San Francisco. "We've had enough violence already in this place," read Wheeler.
[21] The parents of the 15 year-old victim allegedly gang raped outside a high school Homecoming dance in Richmond, California spoke out this past weekend. Pastor Jim Wheeler of the First Presbyterian Church of Richmond read their prepared statement by on Saturday that encouraged those enraged by the incident to '''work toward changing the atmosphere in our schools and in this community so that this kind of thing never happens again.'''
[30] Last night at the candle light vigil held in Richmond in support of the 15-year-old student who was brutally gang raped outside of her Homecoming dance, the victim herself released a statement to the public which read by her church pastor. "We realize people are angry about this.
[31] The parents of the 15-year-old California girl who was brutally gang raped outside a high school homecoming dance last week released a statement this weekend asking that the incident provoke change at the school.
[21] We decided to call," said the female, who identified herself as Maggie. The victim was repeatedly raped, beaten and robbed Oct. 24 after she left a homecoming dance at
Richmond High School ''' a
crime that sparked outrage and focused national attention on the small city northeast of San Francisco.
[32] The one-minute call is apparently the first report police received about the Oct. 24 attack during a homecoming dance at Richmond High School.
[33] The measures were disclosed as community leaders sought ways to calm outrage over the Oct. 24 attack at Richmond High School that police said may have involved as many as 10 suspects and 20 onlookers who failed to call police. "Obviously, there wasn't enough security or we wouldn't have had this tragedy happen," said Bruce Harter, superintendent of the West Contra Costa School District.
[34] The school board plans to discuss more changes, including the addition of surveillance cameras and more fencing, at a meeting Wednesday night. A host of parents, educators, community leaders and students likely will assist their deliberations, having all long complained about the slow progress with which the district previously addressed their concerns about safety at many campuses. "This has been an issue the community has talked about in the past" at Richmond High, said Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan, who helps supervise community policing efforts in that section of the city.
[35] The girl, a Richmond High School student, was "brutally attacked and raped, beaten and robbed over a two and a half hour ordeal," Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan said.
[14] Nadeen Elshorafa, Site Organizer for Youth Together, an after school program that fosters leadership development at Richmond High and several other Bay area schools, said that the youth frustration stems from standing in solidarity with their classmate who has been sexually assaulted and needing to highlight the conditions and environment that fuels certain things. '''They're very frustrated when they hear people from the media starting to call people from Richmond animals, and saying, '''you're breeding savages at the school,'''' Ms. Elshorafa said. To isolate the situation is both disingenuous to the young girl who was violated and to the entire community, she added. For instance, '''girl gets raped' headlines are disingenuous because they slant the story as if she went out to get raped, but language also becomes a problem when news reports that Richmond is mostly populated by people of color, because they insinuate that this is what people of color do. '''No, this not what people of color do.
[10] RICHMOND, Calif. — Police released a 911 call in which a shaken young woman tells a dispatcher about a drunken, naked girl on a high school campus whom officers later said was gang-raped by as many as 10 people.
[33] RICHMOND, Calif. --Police have released a recording of the 911 call by a girl who reported sightings of a drunken, naked female student on the Richmond High School campus.
[36] Just in case global warming, nuclear proliferation, H1N1, drug-resistant bacteria and the inevitable extinction of our sun weren'''t all scary enough, there'''s a new global nemesis to face off with: gang rape. Over the past week, countless newspapers, cable news stations and blogs have sounded off on what they think of the gang rape of a student from Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif., and the results are far from surprising ''' America still thinks gang rape is bad.
[37] As more details come in about the gang rape of the 15-year-old Richmond High School student Saturday night, the more one is drawn to the realization that not only are some humans just little better than base animals, others are self-involved.
[5] Sure it was funny and the movie was mildly amusing, but it seems that the mantra of sex as a weapon is taking hold around the world. This country sat stunned as CNN reported the brutal gang rape of a 15-year-old girl at her homecoming at Richmond High School in California.
[38] The most horrific part of the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl at Richmond High School may have been the fact that so many witnesses did nothing to stop it. Some neighborhood residents took action when they heard of the attack.
[39] Local civic and religious leaders met in front of Richmond High School on Monday, November 2, to pray and rally community support in the wake of the October 24 gang rape of a 15-year-old girl.
[6] Seven suspects, including three minors, have been taken into custody in connection with the October 24th gang rape that occurred on the campus of Richmond High School.
[30] 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.
[26] There have been a lot of coulda-woulda-shoulda reaction that are now coalescing into concrete actions. More than 20 parents have recently raised their hands to be involved at Richmond High, a school of 1600 students that had no parent volunteers at the homecoming dance near which the rape occurred, and no parent volunteers at all this year, according to the principal.
[16] Richmond, California, authorities reported Monday that a 15-year-old girl was gang-raped, beaten, and robbed outside of Richmond High School Friday night after leaving a homecoming dance and no one reported it.
[7] The recording released Thursday appears to be the first report to authorities about the Oct. 24 attack outside the homecoming dance at Richmond High School.
[40] Recently, a 15-year-old high school student was gang-raped after leaving a homecoming dance in Richmond, Calif. Bystanders used their cell phones to photograph or videotape the event rather than call for help. In Deerfield Beach, Fla., five boys surrounded seventh-grader Michael Brewer, doused him with alcohol, and set him on fire in mid-October. Brewer survived the attack but has burns on more than 65 percent of his body.
[41] A 15-year-old woman goes to a homecoming dance in Richmond, California. It should be a time for her to cut loose, have fun, and enjoy the company of friends. Her girlfriend said she was looking forward to it for weeks. '''When we walked in the dance together she said, '''I can'''t wait to get my dance on!'''''' In any sane society, the worst fear on her mind should be a bit of teenage awkwardness. A male '''friend''' invites her to hang out with a group behind the school. There, for more than two hours, she is beaten and raped by more than 10 men. In the course of this assault, her attackers violate her with what has been reported to be a '''foreign object.''' As the young woman'''s humanity is viciously and violently robbed from her, a crowd gathers'''not to interfere and stop this crime against humanity'''but to laugh and take cell phone pictures. By the time somebody finally comes to the young woman'''s aid, she has been left semi-conscious underneath a bench. She is air-lifted by helicopter to the hospital, in critical condition. To everyone reading this: Stop for a minute. Close your eyes'''actually do it'''and try to imagine what this young woman went through. Actually imagine the indescribable physical pain, the mental and emotional torture, she was forced to endure. Imagine her desperation and terror as she hoped with every fiber in her being that somebody'''anybody'''would come and save her from this nightmare.
[42] Despite all appearances, I have no intention to make light of the Richmond gang rape ''' I intend merely to standardize it. Consider the oft-quoted statistic from the U.S. Department of Justice that someone in America is raped every two and a half minutes; by my calculations, that means 576 people are raped every day, so between the Richmond rape and the press time of this column, 5,760 Americans have been raped. The Richmond rape was just as horrifying as every other sexual assault in this country ''' it just reads better off a teleprompter because of the circumstances. At any rate, commentators and pundits across the nation are busy thinking of '''solutions''' for rape in our public schools now that this crime has received national attention.
[37] We have talked about that at length in '''A Declaration: For Women'''s Liberation and the Emancipation of All Humanity''' we published last March. Getting into this Declaration'''and getting it out'''should be a high priority of anyone seriously agonizing over the gang rape in Richmond. Even before revolution can be made we need to be about beginning to change this NOW, as part of showing people that a whole different way can be brought in''' as part of raising people'''s sights to what could be possible if we had power''' and as part of giving heart and backing to those who do hate this kind of thing. This can only be done by people. People who are willing to take a stand when shit like this goes down''' people who are coming from a different morality about relations between men and women and who challenge and stand up against the ugly shit wherever and whenever it manifests, from the horrific to the seemingly small''' people who see everything they do as part of building a different culture and a different ethos, straight up against the dominant relations and ideas of society, and as part of bringing in a whole different world, and who do everything they can to live according to those ethics. It is in the back-and-forth process of standing up against the crimes of the system, and of struggling with the people who live in and get caught up in that system'''s values to rupture with that degradation'''with both of those carried through as part of contributing to making revolution and bringing in a whole different way'''that the groundwork for a real fundamental change in society can be laid. If you are one of those people who are willing to stand up to the madness now''' or if you want to be one of those people''' then we need to talk.
[42] Why? Because, as I (hopefully) made clear in the abovementioned article, men are the perpetrators in 99 percent of rape cases (regardless of the gender of the survivor). This is especially true in the Richmond case. The author of the letter asks a series of questions; one that I find especially problematic is the following, "Were the rapists, rapists, before they found themselves there?" If the answer is yes or the answer is no, they were certainly rapists after the incident was over. Is that not what's important? We can talk about cause and effect and social ills and a culture that objectifies women, but, as with this article, that's as far as it gets. I don't disagree, this culture does objectify women- if you want evidence, turn on the TV. But if that's what's to blame for all this, then it absolves these rapists in one way or another. The author of the letter, in passing, suggests that the rapists ought to be held accountable, but why isn't that stated clearly, up front? The way I read the argument contained in the letter is, the gang rape represents a tear in the social fabric, so it needs to be addressed on a societal level.
[43] After googling the gang rape story in Richmond and reading comments on blogs, it just leaves me sickened and really sad. The fact that race and socio-economics have been used to explain away a brutal gang rape. just sad. maybe I just have seen every kind of rapist and survivor. every race, color, religion, socio-economic status group. it's all the same. a lack of regard for violence against women. Tolerated, and in this case encouraged by the mob surrounding the perps. laughing, joking and taking pics.
[44] 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.
[26] The Oct. 24 call appears to be the first report to authorities about the brutal gang rape during the school's homecoming dance.
[36] The gang rape took place in a remote part of the school's grounds while the homecoming dance was taking place.
[25] A seventh suspect was arrested today in the brutal gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside her homecoming dance last month.
[25] Administrators have long pushed for the new measures but couldn't find the money until now, Harter said. A seventh suspect was arrested Tuesday in the attack on the 15-year-old girl after she left a homecoming dance in the industrial enclave near the San Francisco Bay known as one of the nation's most dangerous cities. At a rally and candlelight vigil later Tuesday, DeAnna Schlau, a victim advocate with the nonprofit Community Violence Solutions read a statement she said was prepared by the victim.
[34] I think I will become numb to the level of violence. The scope of this is mind-boggling. The details are already well-known but they still shock: A 15-year-old girl left her homecoming dance and was lured into a deserted courtyard where she was gang raped for more than two hours while spectators cheered or did nothing. News spread with many not taking action until one woman called 911 once she heard what was happening. I was watching a movie, and my brother-in-law came in and he told me 'I don't know what to do, because there is a girl back there and she has been raped.
[16] At a meeting Saturday, at least 20 parents signed up to volunteer at the school -- a huge breakthrough, given the history. Over the weekend, in the barren courtyard where a 15-year-old girl leaving her homecoming dance was brutally beaten and raped, floodlights were finally installed.
[15] The 15 year old victim was found underneath a bench in the school's courtyard. She sustained between 2 to 2 1/2 hours of brutal rape and attack. She left the homecoming dance to get a ride home from her father. She got sidetracked and started drinking with a group of students outside the school. She was then beaten and raped, and was in the hospital for 5 days in critical condition.
[29] "You deter crime by being seen." Nobody saw two Saturdays ago, when the victim left her homecoming dance about 9:30 p.m. Before she called for a ride home, a classmate hanging around in the dark courtyard with a group of other teens and young adults called out to her. She joined them, and swiftly became incapacitated with strong drink. Afterward, several of her male companions beat her, stripped her, robbed her of her jewelry and other belongings and repeatedly raped her. The attack lasted about two hours, with different people joining in during its course, and many more passively watching, or even egging on the attackers by jeering and taking cell-phone pictures.
[35] As a horrible aside, I believe that my beautiful daughter may have worn the same dress that the victim wore to her own homecoming dance on the same night: a sparkly purple dress with faux diamonds from a well-known store. My daughter goes to a wonderful, safe school and the sun will probably burn out before anything like this ever happens there. To think of my daughter looking so lovely in her dress and having such a great time at her dance and then thinking of the fate of this poor young girl that same night just breaks my heart.
[8] What began as a night the teen girls were looking forward to, soon became a nightmare. "She was perfectly sober at the dance," said Baker, who saw the victim just 15 minutes before she left the dance. "She was bubbly, and kept saying how happy she was to be at the dance." She described her friend as an outgoing student who was enrolled in an honors English class. Although she had wanted to join the school's photography club, her parents didn't like her to stay after school and her church commitment took up much of her time.
[25] The victim was invited by a classmate to join the group after leaving the dance. She drank a large amount of alcohol with them before the two-hour assault began, police said. Officers acting on a tip later found her semiconscious near a picnic table. Charles Johnson, a Richmond High School security specialist, said one of the supervisors at the dance had been keeping an eye on the girl as she waited outside the gym for her father to give her a ride home.
[34] If rapists go free to rape again due to "lack of evidence," and so many local Bay Area gangs continue on and on to pride themselves on raping little girls and naive women, and local schools see fit to host dances without security, I wouldn't blame anyone for going postal to stop gangs, especially if the police or the Feds or the National Guard can't or won't get the job done.
[7] A friend of the Richmond, California, gang rape victim thinks the school district is doing too little too late.
[45] We are learning new information about how the victim of the Richmond homecoming gang rape is dealing with the trauma she endured. Police say she is a brave person who is dealing with nightmares, flashbacks and has a sense of awe at the support she is getting.
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[46] What did the Richmond gang rape victim have to say? Was she bitter or angry? Did she demand justice? Did she indicate that she wanted revenge or want to see her attackers get hurt? No. The Richmond gang rape victim had a very positive message. "We realize people are angry about this," the statement said.
[5] The victim of the Richmond gang rape case finally spoke out in a written statement released by a victim's advocate today.
[5] RICHMOND, Calif. (KCBS) -- Three young men, allegedly involved in the Richmond gang rape, made a court appearance today. In the Contra Costa Superior Court in Richmond, family and friends of the accused showed up in their defense.
[47] RICHMOND, Calif. (KCBS) -- Four of the six people who have been arrested in connection with last month's gang rape in Richmond are scheduled to spend Thursday afternoon in court. They will be assigned attorneys, enter pleas, or be arraigned.
[39] "The people we've arrested represent the most significant role-players in the gang rape," police Lt. Mark Gagan said. "We're still analyzing the physical evidence and taking witness statements, so this investigation is far from over
[12] Gagan told KCBS that police are confident that the suspects who played the most active roles in the gang rape are in custody. Gagan also told the Contra Costa Times that another suspect who as been under arrest since Thursday has been charged with rape but he could not immediately provide more details.
[48] Gagan said so far five suspects had been charged in the case and a sixth was released for insufficient evidence. One of those five, Jose Carlos Montano, was charged in the case late Monday and was scheduled for a Tuesday arraignment. The 18-year-old has been held in the Martinez Detention Facility since his arrest last Friday on felony charges of rape, rape in concert with force, penetration with a foreign object and a special enhancement requesting life in prison. His bail has been set at $1.3 million. "You can tell by the severity of his charges and the amount of his bail that Montano played a significant role in the assault on our victim,'' Gagan said.
[2] Six other suspects were earlier taken into custody in connection with the rape. Four of those suspects have been charged, one has been released because there was insufficient evidence to charge him and the sixth suspect is still in custody awaiting charges. Deputy District Attorney Dara Cashman said Monday afternoon that she was still reviewing the case against San Pablo resident Jose Carlos Montano, 18. She has until Wednesday afternoon to file charges or Montano will be released.
[14] Later today, suspect Jose Carlos Montano, an 18-year-old Richmond resident arrested last week, wiped away tears as bailiffs. He was charged with rape in concert, rape by a foreign object in concert and an enhancement for personally committing a sexual act in concert, senior deputy district attorney David Brown said.
[22] Manuel Ortega, a 19-year-old former Richmond High School student, is charged with robbery, assault causing great bodily injury, rape in concert and rape with violence, according to Gagan.
[21] In a letter to the editor to the DS last Friday, a fellow student articulated some concerns regarding the gang rape of a fifteen year-old Richmond (CA) High School female student.
[43] Sammie Lee Hill, a former police officer and a community relations specialist at the school, said the victim is a caring person and easy to get along with. "We all know she's going through a hell of an ordeal," Hill said. "That's what hurts everybody the most." Earlier Tuesday, police arrested Elvis Josue Torrentes, 21, of Richmond for investigation of rape, rape in concert with force and other allegations that could lead to life in prison if he is convicted. He was being held on $1.2 million bail.
[34] The victim spent several days in the hospital. Police last week arrested six teens and young adults, four of whom appeared in Contra Costa Superior Court on felony charges that could land them life sentences if convicted. "If you need to express your outrage, please channel your anger into positive action," wrote the victim's family in a statement released over the weekend through their pastor. "Work toward changing the atmosphere in our schools and in this community so that this kind of thing never happens again."
[35] According to police, about 10 men and boys raped and beat the young girl on a table in a courtyard behind the school for about two and one half hours while 20 more stood by, laughed, watched, and even took photographs. '''I'm saddened that something this horrific would happen or befall this young woman, and that people would commit such a heinous act against her. My heart goes out to her and her family and my focus right now and my colleagues is to do what we can to assist her and her family and help the community, which is also impacted by this, find some healing,''' said Tony Thurman, member of the West Contra Costa Unified School District.
[10] New, brighter lights were being installed Wednesday night at the high school in and around the area where a 15-year-old girl was raped, beaten and robbed by as many as 10 young men while a crowd of up to 20 bystanders watched the attack happen.
[3] Some 15 young men were hanging outside the Richmond school the night of homecoming before the attack.
[49] What happened in Richmond could happen anywhere. The last time we heard about a vicious attack like this, it was a comatose 17-year-old girl who was being sexually assaulted by a group of young men at a De Anza College baseball team party in 2007.
[20] The police in Richmond posted a $20,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. Since that grim day last week, we have all sat captivated as the story unfolded, and soon after we got a glimpse of two of the young men as they were arraigned in a California court. As horrific as this crime was and as traumatizing as this girl's experience, she is not the only one. She is hardly the first either.
[38] In a report to the Richmond city council, Police Chief Chris Magnus says while one of the more disturbing aspects of the rape case is how people witnessed the crime, but did not report it, young people are now providing many of the tips that have led to arrests.
[14] I have been persuing Justice for nearly four years. It involves workplace rape. I went on a work assignment, I was drugged, raped, in public, in the workplace, they were making "rape porn videos" I heard from a reliable source, that they broadcast it on the internet. All of this has something to do with the VAWA sealed felony rapes don't count, they send you to counseling at the Crime Victim Center. they say "get on with your life" I have the police report that states DEVIATE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITHOUT THE COMPLAINTS CONSENT The cop in the town does not even arrest the guy anymore they just process his rape cases for him. He pays a fine.
[44] Vargas said that on the night of the attack, a family member heard three males bragging about the hours-long gang rape. Feelings of empathy with the victim led her to call police. "I wouldn't want anybody to hurt me and get away with it, or people to know about it and not do anything about it," she said.
[3] Police said as many as 20 people watched the attack in a dimly lit courtyard without calling police. Margarita Vargas, a former Richmond high student who identified herself to the dispatcher only as "Maggie," said she hadn't actually seen the girl but learned about her from a family member who heard people bragging about the incident.
[33] That onlookers watched and did nothing, even laughed and joked around during the attack, shook the nation and provoked outrage and criticism from all corners. Strangers pointed the finger at Richmond kids, calling them immoral and likening them to animals -- that just from e-mails received by Richmond High during the first days after the attack. Few mentioned that a group of young people, some of them Richmond High students, called 911 to help the victim as soon as they learned of the attack.
[50] Margarita Vargas, who is being dubbed "the Good Samaritan" by police, is a mother and former student at Richmond High School, the school where the brutal attack took place.
[51] The Bay Area is still grappling with the events that happened outside of Richmond High School the night of Oct. 24 and details continue to emerge, such as this afternoon's
release of the 911 call that brought police to the scene.
[16] Public outrage is growing over the 15-year-old girl who was gang-raped in a courtyard outside Richmond High School in California Saturday night.
[7] After decades of safety complaints, it took just one week for Richmond High to light up one of its darkest corners like a Super Bowl halftime show. Beginning on Saturday night, a row of wall-mounted lamps illuminated the shadowy courtyard on the north end of campus where, one week earlier, a group of men and boys gang-raped a 15-year-old student during her homecoming dance.
[35] There are plans to put security guards at school entrances, install security cameras across campuses and force hours and hours of additional training on our teachers, among other proposals. These plans aren'''t just made of hot air; according to the San Francisco Chronicle, the West Contra Costa Unified School District approved a plan last Saturday to provide extensive fencing around Richmond High School, presumably to increase safety. I'''d be shocked if other school districts didn'''t make similar moves lest they risk public outrage, but where is everyone going to be when it comes time to pay for these initiatives? We'''ll probably have moved on to some other issue, saddling our public education system with even more debt. It'''s difficult and painful to do so, but when tragedies like these become publicized, we as a society must be able to grieve without taking excessive action.
[37] The cash-strapped school district plans to take up further proposed refinements of Richmond High security Wednesday night.
[35] The cameras will be accessible through the Internet so Richmond police and the school district will be able to monitor activity on the campus remotely.
[14] "I want to state to everyone here, and everyone outside of Richmond. we are Richmond!" Mayor Gayle McLaughlin told the crowd. "This is the community coming together. This is our community." Those attending Tuesday's rally included Principal Julio Franco, Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia, West Contra Costa school district Superintendent Bruce Harter and school board members Antonio Medrano and Tony Thurmond.
[50] DeAnna Schlau, a victim advocate from Community Violence Solutions, read the statement before hundreds of attendees at the event, which featured speakers, as well as performances of music, spoken word, and poems. About 80 percent of those who attended the rally Tuesday afternoon were students, said Terrance Cheung, chief of staff for Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, who spoke at the event. Other speakers included Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, school officials and students.
[2] The victim issued a statement that was read at a community healing event at Richmond High School.
[14] A healing rally and candlelight vigil for the victim was planned later Tuesday at Richmond High School, the scene of the rape in the low-income Northern California city.
[4] If I have $100,000 to invest in sexual assault prevention, should I choose to invest it on high school campuses, where it is relatively unlikely (only 8 percent of all cases, according to a 2005 Department of Justice study), or in densely populated inner cities (over 50 percent of rapes occur in the home of the victim or someone close to the victim)? We can'''t let individual cases like that of the Richmond teenager color our greater efforts for a better society.
[37] There have been multiple arrests, with charges including suspicion of rape, rape in concert with force and rape with a foreign object. Those that merely watched this inhumane savagery will likely not be charged with anything unless someone can prove they actively participated. Those who could have stopped this abomination at anytime, by simply typing three digits into their cellular and pressing send, those who found entertainment and pleasure in a girl's psychological demise, those who encouraged savagery with brutal passivity rather than reporting the atrocity taking place right before their eyes will not be punished. Some may have feared that if others found out that they snitched or if they opted to get personally involved then there would be retaliation -- an understandable concern, especially in an area like Richmond.
[13] Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan says a 21-year-old man from Richmond was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of rape, rape in concert with force and other charges that could lead to life in prison if convicted.
[19] Richmond Police spokesman Lt. Mark Gagan told the paper that the man is suspected of committing "several felonies." The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting he is being charged with rape in concert, penetration with a foreign object, and sexual battery.
[48] Montano, who is being held on $1.3 million bail, is charged with rape, rape in concert with force and other charges, according to Gagan. "We will be going after a couple, if not several, people who are implicated in this crime," said Gagan.
[21] In fact it will take nothing short of fundamental social change'''nothing short of a revolution'''to stop this kind of horror. This is not what is being raised, or even allowed onto the air, by the wise men and women of the media. They make a big show of deploring the rape, even as they seize on it to promote an agenda of even more repression, even more policing, even more surveillance. Let'''s leave aside the fact that the very police they would have people rely on are notorious for exploiting and, yes, raping vulnerable women whom they happen upon.1 Just think about the fact that the places in society that are most '''secured''''''the prisons'''are precisely the places where rape is most widespread. For the mouthpieces running their stuff on cable TV'''these very same people who whip up the mass media shaming rituals of prominent women described above, who do everything they can to turn the people into this society into a nation of paparazzi2 and lynch-mob spectators, who hush up these kinds of outrageous crimes when committed by their '''security forces''''''for these people to even speak on this question, let alone pontificate 24 hours a day on it, is the height of hypocrisy. They have no right to speak'''and the alternatives they propose will succeed only in getting people caught deeper into the quicksand that is rapidly dragging everybody under.
[42] Recent history and documentaries have shown that organized patterns of rape are a component of deliberate ethnic cleansing. Even the slave masters of old used rape to control their female slaves as their reproductive rights. These aren't just crimes of passion or boys being boys, this is torture; systematic and deliberate torture. 3,500 women and girls have been raped just this last month in the Congo, some as young as four-years-old.
[38] I live in the Bay Area. about an hour from Richmond where this 15 year old go was gang raped by 10 boys/men and up to 20 people watched this crime being committed. I was so shocked I cried when I heard about this incident I cried. I cried for this child who was not only raped but dehumanized and demoralized. I couldn't believe the way this was made a public event.
[44] Authorities say a 15-year-old was gang raped during a school dance at Richmond High in California.
[26] The teen was gang raped, beaten, and robbed over a period of two to two-and-a-half hours. Another 10-15 bystanders stood around cheering, taking pictures, laughing, and going in and out of the still ongoing homecoming dance to inform others of what was transpiring outside the school.
[7] Police are seeking more suspects, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A close friend of the victim said she may return to school, where she was attacked last month as she left her homecoming dance. "As long as no one treats her differently from before, she'll be fine," the pal said. "She's still the same person, just less trusting now."
[49] "Nobody wants to call the cops, so we decided to call the cops." Police said the victim left the homecoming dance and was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group drinking in the school courtyard. Officers later found her semiconscious and partially naked near a picnic table.
[33] Harter said the homecoming dance featured 10 chaperones: Six site supervisors and four police officers were at the school gym to make sure the dance and nearby parking lots were safe. They thought things were going so well that two supervisors were allowed to leave early, Harter added.
[34] While school officials thought the police were responsible for patrolling the grounds during the dance, it appears no one bothered to tell the officers that. Equally distressing is this news, reported by the Bay Area News Group's Karl Fischer and Todd Perlman on Sunday: There were no parents among the 14 adults at the dance. Principal Julio Franco says most parents can't volunteer for events because they have other kids to care for at home. Perhaps it took an incident like this to make clear just how badly parents are needed in schools, particularly in light of California's budget cuts.
[15] In related news, neither members of the school board nor faculty (like Richmond High School principal Julio Franco or any of the assistant principals) have resigned or been asked to resign over the jarring two-and-a-half-hour attack that happened on their watches.
[8] The uproar over the attack has pushed administrators into establishing new safety improvements to secure the Richmond High School campus.
[3] The 911 dispatcher asked if there was anyone around the naked girl, lying in a dark courtyard on the Richmond High School campus.
[23] Police say a 17-year-old went to Juvenile Hall in October 2008 from De Anza High School in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl on campus, during school hours.
[50] In the recording, a female caller says a girl is naked and passed out drunk in back of the school. The caller said she hadn't seen the girl herself, but that other people told her that they had ]seen her and didn't want to call the cops. The call was made at about 11:50 p.m. When police arrived, they found a 16 year old girl who had been beaten, robbed and raped by as many as 10 people over a two-and-a-half hour period while as many as a dozen others watched. The woman who made that call
talked to NBC Bay Area last week. She said she called because it was the right thing to do.
[46] Police said as many as 20 people watched the attack without calling police. The shaken young woman said she hadn't seen the girl but had learned about her from students who didn't want to call police.
[40] Gagan said investigators believe as many as 10 people ranging in age from 15 to the mid-20s may have attacked the girl for more than two hours in a dimly lit campus courtyard. Police said the victim left the dance and was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group that was drinking.
[4] The 7th arrest was made on November 3.
According to KTVU, "Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan said the local resident was taken into
custody at around 7 a.m. "Our tactical team just arrested a 21-year-old Richmond resident at his home," Gagan told KTVU. "We had a search and arrest warrant for him in regards to his participation in this case. He is being held on a $1.2 million arrest warrant which insinuates he is suspected of committing several felonies." Even though some of the attackers were under 18, they will still be tried as adults.
[29] Richmond officers raided a home on the 2500 block of Pine Street about 7 a.m. and arrested 21-year-old Elvis Josue Torrentes without incident, Lt. Mark Gagan said. Detectives used a probable cause arrest warrant; he is held in lieu of $1.25 million bail on suspicion of several sexual assault charges.
[22] Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan did not identify the suspect. Of those arrested so far, one was released for lack of evidence.
[24] A 21-year-old man was picked up by heavily armed police at Richmond, Calif., home early today, according to Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan. A special tactical team was used to apprehend the suspect, according to Gagan, because the "brutality and severity of the crime" made him a "high risk suspect." He surrendered without incident.
[25] A network of informants must be cultivated, with a keen eye to confidentiality and protection. One of the encouraging signs of societal health coming out of Richmond is the news that gang members in the community are trying to beat the police in locating suspects so they can administer "street justice." It is common knowledge that police are perfunctory about solving certain crimes. They might well want to put vigilante justice for this crime on their "perfunctory list." Quite often police will put heat on gangs and criminal elements until they give up information about particularly awful crimes.
[18] "If you need to express your outrage please channel your anger into positive action." Late last week, police arrested a suspect who they believed played a "significant role" in the gang rape of the teenager but also released another suspect who had been in custody for several days.
[21] "We know there were more people back there with our victim." Another suspect, Salvador Rodriquez, 21, was arrested Tuesday night but was never charged by police. He will be released from a county jail later today, according to ABC's KGO-TV in San Francisco.
[21] Richmond residents, particularly young people, have taken a beating in the court of public opinion following the Oct. 24 attack, for which five suspects are charged.
[50] Prosecutors have filed charges against five other suspects in the Oct. 24 attack, including 18-year-old Jose Carlos Montano of San Pablo late Monday. Cody Ray Smith, 15, pleaded not guilty to charges, while Ari Abdallah Morales, 16, and Marcelles James Peter, 17, did not enter pleas during their arraignment last week as adults in Contra Costa County Superior Court. Salvador Rodriguez, 21, of Richmond was released after prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence to charge him.
[4] Four teenagers have already been charged in connection with the gang rape. San Pablo residents Cody Ray Smith, 15, and Ari Abdullah Morales, 16; Pinole resident Marcelles James Peter, 17; and Richmond resident Manuel Ortega, 19, all face life in prison if convicted on all their counts. Smith, Morales and Peters '- who wore bulletproof vests at their court appearances last week -- each have been charged with rape by a foreign object while acting in concert. Morales has also been charged with robbery, according to the criminal complaint.
[2] In reading accounts of the Richmond gang rape aftermath, I am trying to harmonise the outpouring of sympathy, the frank admissions that the community has a problem, and the open solidarity with the perpetrators.
[18] 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. CNN's Dan Simon contributed to this report.
[24] As a society, we tend to look to the already overburdened school systems to fix problems with our youth. Traditional interventions of increasing school security, teaching values in the classroom and increasing police presence in and around schools, will do little to curb the frequency or the intensity of these attacks. Schools didn't create these problems and they can't fix them. Teachers and administrators are the psychological victims of teen violence as they spend their days working in "urban war zones." The problems with our youth start long before they enter school and can only be addressed by educating parents and making them accountable for their children. The sad truth is a cultural shift and technological advances have changed the way we parent our children, reduced their respect for authority and their ability to authentically connect with others.
[41] 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.
[26] 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. 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.
[26] Older children need to spend more time with adults and fewer hours glued to a television or a computer screen. Middle school and high school students need more supervision than can be provided by an occasional check-in call with their parents. Whether a couple is married or divorced, all children need both parents to be active in the parenting process.
[41] That's in sharp contrast to other area high schools with parent volunteers. Some have an adult stationed at every exit during dances and won't let kids leave without a parent picking them up. The victim left the gym and was apparently lured away to a group of drinking kids before she could call home for a ride. Imagine if someone had been at the door to escort her out instead. Or if parents, in planning for the dance, had realized no one was assigned the job of patrolling the poorly lit campus. There are some encouraging signs that this horrifying case will prompt reforms.
[15] Just a few blocks away from the school, Raul Rubio was hanging out with friends when a group of guys came by and said the victim was naked and drunk at the school. Rubio decided to act, telling his brother's girlfriend to call police as soon as she could. "At least those six got caught. If there was more dudes in there, they're going to have a guilty conscience and whatever goes around comes around," Rubio said. "So they might get it later on or something." Rubio said when the group approached him and told them what what happening, he thought it was a joke. "How could they do something like that and not think of their own sisters, their own cousins," said Rubio.
[39] The victim was found unconscious and badly beaten under a bench later that night. She was released after spending five days in the hospital. Vargas says she was home watching TV when her brother-in-law came home from the dance and told her about the girl. "He was like, 'I'm scared,' and I'm like, 'Well, we should call the cops because that's the thing to do,'" said Vargas.
[51] 'I wouldn't want that girl to die or anything. I feel like if it weren't for me, she would have been dead." When police arrived they found the young victim semi-conscious, naked and curled up under a picnic table.
[3] A shaken young woman, who identified herself as "Maggie," told the operator that the naked teen was spotted lying in a darkened courtyard. She said she hadn't seen the victim herself, but students who saw her didn't want to "call the cops, so we decided to call." Officers found the victim semi-conscious and brought her to the hospital. Police initially said she was 15, but corrected that Thursday to 16.
[36] Richmond police, meanwhile, released a recording Thursday of the 911 call placed by Vargas, who reported the attack from her home a few blocks from campus after her boyfriend heard about it from passers-by, two hours after it began.
[23] "Montano played a significant role in what happened to our victim and his arrest was an important one," Richmond Police Department Lt. Mark Gagan told ABCNews.com.
[21] "We know there was more people back there than we have spoken to," said Lt. Mark Gagan of the Richmond Police Department. The caller was with an an unidentified male as she spoke to authorities. Caller: "She's in the back by the dumpsters." Caller: "She's probably intoxicated because she's naked."
[32] Richmond Police have now arrested seven people in connection with the assault, but have only six in custody.
[25] A $20,000 reward is being offered by the Richmond Police Department to anyone who can provide information leading to more arrests in the case.
[25] Richmond police said Thursday that the probe was ongoing and that more arrests could be made.
[32] Wednesday night, the board finally awarded the contract for 120 digital cameras at Richmond High to be monitored by police. "The security cameras that we have will be linked to the city of Richmond and the city of San Pablo so that they'll be effective," said WCCUSD trustee Charles Ramsey.
[3] RICHMOND, Calif. — Officials at a high school where a student was gang-raped in a courtyard are moving to tighten campus security with the long-stalled purchase of surveillance cameras, powerful lighting and new fencing.
[34] 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.
[26] 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.
[26] This dynamic can fuel violence, as officials say it did at Richmond High School. It can also prevent violence.
[26] Gagan, who did not know whether Montano attended Richmond High School, said the investigation was ongoing and investigators believed there were more suspects.
[2] Richmond High School is accepting cards and donations for the victim and her family. They can be mailed to the school at 1250 23rd St., Richmond, CA 94804-1011.
[1] After making the call, Vargas went to the school to make sure authorities were responding. She credits leadership classes taken at Richmond High with teaching her to know the right thing to do in the situation.
[51] In an attempt to make Richmond High safer, school officials are rushing to implement stricter safety codes, security measures and counseling programs.
[12] Richmond High students, in speaking for themselves, noted the alley where the rape took place as security-compromised.
[30] Make checks out to the Richmond High Student Fund, with "For sex assault victim" written in the memo line.
[1] "But let the anger cause change, change that is necessary to keep our children, our neighbors and our friends safe." The pastor, Jim Wheeler of the First Presbyterian Church of Richmond, praised the assembled 500 students, parents and area residents for their "heart and emotion" in support of the girl. He said he believes she is recovering well, "but she will have a long way to go." It was a sentiment echoed by many of the girl's classmates as they listened to speeches, watched performances and held a candlelight vigil near the football field.
[1] What has gotten a lot of press in the aftermath was the shock and outrage of members of the Richmond community, from students to parents and people in the community at large. What gets less press coverage is the undercurrent of sympathy for the perpetrators, some of whom have bemoaned their fate on various social networking sites.
[18] This is a school where her fellow students RAPED her & stood by & did NOTHING! Her Parents sound like All-Forgiving Christians - maybe that's part of the problem I see here. I want these Fuckers put away where they can be Gang Raped daily or killed.
[49] A dozen students watched as a 15-year-old girl was gang raped in California.
[5] " Authorities say the defendants are among as many as 10 young men who raped the girl over two hours, while up to 20 others watched.
[12] Some local toughs have even talked of exacting vigilante violence against the young men who either took part in or watched the attack Oct. 24 in a courtyard on the edge of the campus.
[1] The victim drank a large amount of brandy quickly and soon became extremely drunk. At that point, authorities say, several young men beat her, stripped her, robbed her of her belongings and repeatedly raped her.
[23] Something that is not talked about in our society is just how many MEN fall victim to rape and sexual abuse at a very young age and live with the aftermath for years to come.
[44] Truly, rape is a terrible crime on par with murder that affects not only the victim, but also friends, family and the community at large. I'''d like to take this moment to extend my most sincere sympathies to the victim of this tragic crime and her family. I think we should also take a moment to recall the countless other victims of rape, no matter their age, race or location.
[37] It is women like Gabrielle Union who speak out and give a fac to this horrendous crime, who bring a greater awareness to these shocking incidences that occur and the lack of support for the victims, not just from the Governments, but from the community in general who insist on vocalising their misinformed and sometimes downright ignorant views. I dont know about the recent incident that sparked this post, however what i do know is that no woman, or man, asks to be raped. It does not matter what age, race, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, history or what kind of 'thing' they were in to. They are victims,or rather survivors.
[44] You got to draw a line somewhere. I also think she should remain anonymous and be given a fresh start - the bastards that raped her should forever be identified and deal with the consequences. I'd like to see them get married, have kids, build a life - if whoever they meet in the future was made aware of exactly what they had done. Turn the other cheek -ok, but in this case. I think they'd just feel like they got a way with it. I detected zero remorse and no contrition in their statements - other than they regret getting caught. I think they need to suffer a bit before being offered a shot at redemption they don't deserve the grace the victim is giving them.
[49] "Violence is always a wrong choice. We realize people are angry about this, but let the anger cause change; that is necessary to keep our children, our neighbors and our friends safe," DeAnna Schlau, an advocate for Community Violence Solutions, read from the victim's statement.
[50] Let the anger cause change, change that is necessary to keep our children, our neighbors and our friends safe." She also wrote in her statement, '''violence is always the wrong choice." If I had experienced the two-hour horrific ordeal that she went through I can honestly say I don'''t think I would have put those words to paper. It is a strong, empowering statement from a young woman who has been through hell and I applaud her for her strength.
[31] "Violence is always the wrong choice. We realize that people are angry about this, but let the anger cause change, which is necessary to keep our children, our neighbors, and our friends safe. We thank everyone for their love, support, and ongoing prayers."
[14] Students are even talking about ways to combat violence against women. "Hopefully, we will all be safer eventually after this," said Kami Baker, a junior who is a close friend of the victim.
[12] Chicago honor student Derrion Albert, 16, wasn't so lucky. His death was taped on a cell phone as a group of boys brutally beat him with wooden boards in late September. Each of these crimes was particularly disturbing because not only did the perpetrators show no respect for human life but no empathy for the pain and suffering inflicted on the victims of their crimes. These recent attacks horrified a nation that is struggling to curb teen violence and understand why so many teens seem so out of control.
[41] 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.
[26] 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.
[26] "Violence against women knows no city boundaries, no school boundaries," Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin told the crowd.
[28] McLaughlin later was to preside over the Richmond City Council meeting, during which the Police Department was expected to deliver a report about sexual assault around school campuses in the city that showed it a rare event.
[50] "Neighborhoods can make a difference, patrolling areas and aiding with security at schools during special events, being able to call police when you see something," Martin said.
[35] Police currently have six suspects in custody, but are still searching for others. The latest defendant to be arraigned, Jose Carlos Montano, 18, was close to tears during his court appearance. He is charged with rape in concert with force and penetration with a foreign object in the attack. He said nothing as he was led away to county jail, where he is being held without bail.
[12] Out of the seven suspects arrested by police, who range in age from 15-21, six have been officially charged in the rape.
[51] As many as 20 bystanders are believed to have watched without intervening and may have even filmed or photographed the attack. Montano joins five other suspects who police arrested earlier this week.
[21] Police say 10 people were actually involved in the rape, while at least another 10 people watched but did not call 911.
[51] The girl had consumed a large amount of alcohol by the time the assault began, police said. Her father tried to call her cell phone, but no one answered. Police said they received a tip about a possible assault from a former student, who heard two males bragging about it.
[4] California police are calling Margarita Vargas "the Good Samaritan" for her courage--after making the call, she went to the scene of the crime. "I could tell that she had been beat up because her face was swollen," she tells
CBS5. "She was naked, didn't have shoes. They just covered her up and stuff." "I was watching a movie, and my brother-in-law came in and he told me, 'I don't know what to do, because there is a girl back there and she has been raped, I'm scared,'" says Vargas.
[52] 
A Richmond, California woman says she "Didn't even think twice," about calling 911 to alert authorities to the Oct. 24 gang-rape of high-school girl outside of a homecoming dance. [51] The victim of the attack is a devout Christian who attended church three times a week and whose friends say had been looking forward to the homecoming dance for weeks.
[25] Kami Baker, one of the victim's close friends, said the girl came to the dance clad in a sparkling purple gown, diamond necklace and matching silver shoes. "When we walked in the dance together she said, 'I can't wait to get my dance on!'" Baker, 16, told ABCNews.com.
[25] The area, according to a close friend of the victim, was known as a secluded area where couples at the school would often congregate.
[25] Thank you- this is the most thoughtful article that I have read on this horrific event. Thank you for this post; so much of the media is placing blame on the victim, her parents and the school.
[13] My dear, parents should use this unfortunate incident to fully justify to themselves pulling their children from that cesspool we call public schools.
[29] "I'm like, we should call the cops because that's the right thing to do." like she was reading it off the script of a middle school health and safety video.
[52] We can'''t increase the drinking age every time a drunk teen gets involved in a car accident, and we also can'''t make our schools look more like prisons every time some act of violence is perpetrated on our campuses.
[37] The Contra Costa County Times reports that Rev. Andre Shumake made a plea for 100 volunteers to come forward to assist at special events at the school and to help out at the campus every day.
[6] The
Contra Costa Times is reporting that a 21-year-old Richmond man was arrested at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, November 3, at his Richmond home. He is being held on $1.2 million bail.
[48] The lone exception to the outcry has come from Monica Peter, an aunt of Marcelles Peter, one of the minor defendants. According to a story in Friday's Contra Costa Times, Peter expressed her belief that her nephew's arrest was racially motivated. "If they give him a life sentence, I guarantee the city of Richmond will be sued.
[11] Since the rape, the Richmond community has met multiple times and agonized about the assault.
[16] Richmond High was talking. "It's beautiful to see the community come together," Richmond High senior Abel Pineda said.
[50] The district also has long planned for more and better fencing at Richmond High, including a gate and iron fencing that would enclose the front of campus.
[35] In a CNN interview, Kami Baker says the school district should have taken a bigger interest in beefing up security before the October 24 attack that shocked the country. [45] Expect more security improvements soon, the West Contra Costa school district superintendent said Monday.
[35] Baker faced off with Charles Ramsey, a board member of the West Contra Costa County Unified School District. Baker said the district had not adequately responded to past incidents at the school and she didn't expect that they would in the future.
[45] Eight members have filled out applications with the school district and have been fingerprinted.
[35] The school board may soon decide on a proposal to add a high-definition security camera system at the school, which district spokesman Marin Trujillo said would require an upgrade of all exterior lighting.
[35] Castillo said Morales may not do so until prior to a preliminary hearing. It could not be determined if the other suspects had retained lawyers. Janet Gutierrez, 16, a junior at the school, said the rape has made her concerned about her own safety.
[34] Why would a dozen students watch the gang rape? I sure don't know, but the whole story is very, very sickening.
[7] I know I'm a middle class white woman, and there may be real and good reasons why my reasoning doesn't apply here, but I don't get how a "good boy" walks by the scene of an ongoing gang rape and "just moving when he saw something was going on."
[8] The other thing that should be done is to have the child protective services open files on known gang members. If word gets out that having a gang member in the family brings child welfare down on your family, that can be an incentive for those who are legal residents to take a more active role in parenting and to get help with tough situations. The perpetrators of this gang rape deserve the harshest sentence possible.
[18] As the gang rape has made national headlines, questions surrounding the state of American youth have inevitably arisen. Explanations such as the '''bystander effect''' have been utilized to answer the question as to why no youth attempted to stop the assault.
[30] The gang members and criminal elements have effectively held the community hostage. Solving this crime will not be the end of this story. Police need to focus on the subculture in which this violent behavior flourishes.
[18] Local
police need to develop trusting relationships with students and the overall community, or nothing will be reported.
[26] 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.
[26] 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.
[26] Yusuf Muhammad, student coordinator for the Nation of Islam's Richmond Study Group, concurred. '''We don't want this case to be used as an excuse for our youth to be slaughtered outright.
[10] Richmond California is a divided city in which too many good people live in fear. It is as in need of liberation as any country that was ever invaded by the U.S. Ultimately, they must free themselves. We must not forget them after all have been tried and sentenced who brought Richmond into national infamy. It may be up to them to free themselves. They must not stand alone.
[18] You need to put everything into context,''' Ms. Elshorafa said. The responsibility for violence against women rests with the nation, and not just Richmond and California, she said. Approximately a week before the assault, youth organized a college united basketball tournament, held a Unity Day, put on a talent show, and a graffiti battle, she said.
[10] To be clear, I agree that hard questions need to be asked about who is responsible, who is to be held accountable, who is to be punished and what steps need to be taken to begin to create a world that is grounded in safe spaces for women (and I don't say everyone because although I agree everyone has a right to safety, men, by and large, in comparison to women, enjoy a multitude of safe spaces). That being said, I have problems. First of all, the author of this letter misquoted me, he (note that he is a man) claimed, "A month ago a local DS writer wrote an article about men's need to understand that rape, and sexual abuse against women is our (men's) issue as well."
[43] The person robbing the store ended up putting a gun to my head and raping me. As he was raping me, I felt as though I was floating over myself, thinking, 'This isn't happening.' I blanked out and had an out-of-body experience, like I was hovering above seeing this horrible thing happen to someone else. not me. I was fortunate enough to go the UCLA rape crisis center after this horrific ordeal. It gave me my life back. My dignity and self-esteem were gone and they helped me find them again. That's why I now lobby for state legislatures across the country and the federal government to help raise funds and awareness for rape crisis centers, and I speak to all different kinds of people across the country about what happened to me.
[44] I'm not sure which I find more offensive, a female openly supporting a rape suspect or a people calling a 15 year old white kid "my nigger". None of them even claim he is innocent, they just blame "snitches" which only cements his guilt further in my mind.
[8] A total of seven people have been arrested in the case, but one suspect was released last week because of a lack of evidence.
[48] Prosecutors have filed charges against five others in the case, including 18-year-old Jose Carlos Montano. One of the suspects, 21-year-old Salvador Rodriguez, was released after prosecutors said there's not enough evidence to charge him.
[19] Prosecutors cited the brutality of the crime as reason for charging the underage suspects as adults. "We are pleased with the progress in this case," Gagan said. "We are very confident in finding everyone involved in this."
[22] Even with the latest arrest, Gagan said that still more suspects are being sought out in connection to the case. "This case is far from over," said Gagan.
[25] According to Gagan, the individual's arrest warrant alleges rape in concert, sexual battery and penetration with a foreign object in concert. "You can tell by the number of felonies and how high his bail is that we believe that this individual played a significant role in the rape," Gagan told ABCNews.com.
[25] Six people ''' three adults and three juveniles ''' have been charged with rape, sexual assault, robbery and kidnapping in connection with the assault, authorities said. [32] The arrest of Montano and the release of Rodriguez brings the total number of people charged in the attack to five.
[21] Six people are currently in custody for the two-hour attack that left the victim in critical condition as bystanders watched and took pictures with cell phones.
[49] At Tuesday's vigil, the victim spoke out about the attack. "We realize people are angry about this.
[17] Curran describes the victim as humble. She says the girl is in awe of the outpouring of support and often clutches her heart when she hears about the cards and letters that people are sending to her. Curran admits the victim has a long road ahead of her, but says she is handling everything as well as can be expected. "Every time she's having a flashback or a nightmare or anytime she can remember, she's making sure she keeps in touch with us. She doesn't shut down when we talk about painful things about what has happened and she continues to offer us any kind of information," Curran said.
[46] "Violence is always the wrong choice," the girl said in a message read by her pastor. "We realize people are angry about this.
[49] "We realize people are angry about this," the 15-year-old sophomore said in a statement read by her church pastor at a rally at the high school.
[1] There have also been reports of girls who "asked too many questions" being threatened in the corridors of the high school, which reports a 69% truancy rate.
[18] Since the attack, the school board administrators of a billion dollar bond program have been accused of moving slowly on a new surveillance system and fence at the school. "We have $1.2 million to do this project now; we had $1.2 million five months ago and 12 months ago, because the taxpayers gave you that money," said El Sobrante resident Robert Brower.
[3] Thanks for posting that screen shot of the myspace page. If any of you out there still have a myspace, or want to take a few moments to make a new one, be sure to let these idiots that are supporting the Richmond Gang Raper on there know how you feel.
[8] God speed to whomever in the Richmond police department who is going through all the cell phones, phone records, and computers of the kid thugs.
[8] Shocking, horrifying, terrible - yes. A reflection on Richmond? Proof that the young men who assaulted her are "animals"? No.
[20] Late Thursday night, police arrested 18-year-old Jose Carlos Montano in connection to the rape. [25] All of the 'bystanders' who witnessed the rape and did not call should be arrested.
[32] "People have passed by there, have been seeing her, but nobody wants to call the cops, so we decided to call," Margarita Vargas told the voice in the phone the night of Oct. 24. "Um, they say she looks like a ninth-grader, like about 15, 16 probably."
[23] Poverty is growing in our country. We need to face these social injustices and turn them around, and we need our youth right there leading the way, speaking truth to power." Then there will be no passive bystanders, McLaughlin added, "because they will be facing the injustices of our systemic environment on a daily basis, not just when an acute problem comes up." School board member Antonio Medrano drew on the history of U.S. social protest as he urged everyone to emulate civil rights heroes like Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Cesar Chavez in their struggles for justice and equality.
[28] Everything from installing additional lighting to expanding anti-violence programs to bringing in neighborhood volunteers to patrol campuses were given the green light at a West Contra Costa County School Board meeting Wednesday night.
[3] How many rape victims have you encountered? I'm 37 and have never met a rape survivor let alone someone just raped for 2 hours. [52] State sponsored felony rape. Since the rapes occured in the workplace, I reported it to the EEOC. They issued a right to sue, I filed the case in Federal Court in Philly. At this point, I am certain that the reason the corporations are having "rape parties" IS the U.S. District Court.
[44] Let'''s talk about a real alternative. Revolution'''real revolution'''has taken huge steps toward doing away with rape, as part of an entire orientation of overcoming the oppression of women'''of truly enabling women to be full actors in society, free of tradition'''s chains, and the violence that enforces those chains. Such a revolution sets about dismantling all the institutions, all the ways from the most societal to the most intimate, that hold women down, that humiliate and degrade and debase and violently'''yes violently'''suppress their very humanity.
[42] If you think you're right, grow some balls and give your name by your comment. let us know who you are. What's your proof? FACT: She did NOT talk to Teen Vogue about her rape for the first time, get your "facts" right, she'd done other interviews about her rape. GU sounds very happy wit her life, she has a successful career, a family she seems to love and always talks about how great her friends are.
[44] Ernesto Castillo, attorney for Ari Morales says he would like his client charged in juvenile court. "I think the limited nature of the accusations here against Ari truly reflect how youthful he is, how he lacks the mental capacity to that of an adult," Castillo said. One girl was there to support her friend, Marcelles James Peter. "He's not into all that gang-banging stuff," she said. "He's an innocent boy."
[47] In related news, one of the suspects being charged as an adult, Marcelles James Peter, 17, is black. Why is this important? Because his.
[8] Four others have been formally charged, including three juveniles who will be tried as adults. Prosecutors have said they will seek life sentences for the suspects. Because they are being tried as adults, ABC News has decided to identify the suspects.
[25] Five of the suspects have been charged and the sixth is still in custody awaiting charges.
[46] The suspect, whose name has not yet been released, is being held in lieu of $1.2 million bail and is being interrogated by police. [25] Local police suspect that as many as ten assailants were involved in the more than two-hour attack while a dozen or so others are thought to have witnessed the incident without reporting or intervening.
[30] Up to twenty people looked on, cheered, taunted and took cell phone videos and pictures of the October 24 attack. It was only when a girlfriend of one of the onlookers heard about the attack from her boyfriend that the police were finally called.
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