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Richmond High School girl gang raped (photos, videos)
Posted by Xeno on October 28, 2009
Update: 4 Arraigned. Two adults. All will be tried as adults and face the possibility of life in prison. Those who stood by and did nothing could be charged with conspiracy.
Videos of Richmond High School Gang Rape.
So disgusting. What the hell is wrong with people? Two and half hours with multiple eye-witnesses and no one called for help?
Something I read said the police are watching for anyone who posts video of this attack so they can use it as evidence. People not only stood around, they also made videos, like it was some kind of damn rock concert. Close the school and administer pscyh evals to everyone. Check the water supply too. Something has caused some brain damage in those kids. I can’t believe that anyone would do this without being mentally ill.
And boys, if you have any functioning brain cells left, don’t use them to kid yourself that she will be okay because she has only non-life threatening external injuries. What this does to a person, quite often, is that it destroys her sense of self worth to such a degree that she eventually ends up killing herself.
Here are some details of this deeply disturbing story.
The picnic area at Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif. where police said a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped and beaten Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, is pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. According to police, as many as 20 people may have witnessed the attack, which lasted more than two hours. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Investigators said as many as 15 people, all males, stood around watching the assault, but did not call police or help the victim, a 15-year-old student at Richmond High School in suburban San Francisco.
“As people announced over time that this was going on, more people came to see, and some actually participated,” Gagan said.
Authorities had interviewed the victim, and the search for other attackers and bystanders who watched and did not report the rape was in “full-court press,” according to Gagan.
“We have checked Facebook and YouTube to try to find any revealing evidence,” he said. “We’re looking in particular to see if anyone posted any video of the incident.”
Several other individuals were detained at the scene but not arrested, Simon said.
The attack occurred on school grounds as the annual homecoming dance was under way inside the school Saturday night, authorities said.
The victim was found unconscious and “brutally assaulted” under a bench shortly before midnight Saturday, after police received a call from someone in the area who had overheard people at the assault scene “reminiscing about the incident,” Gagan said.
“She ended up with those guys under her own will because she knew one of the boys who had gone to the high school before,” Gagan said. “Right now, we’re looking at toxicology reports to determine her blood-alcohol content and to determine if she was drugged.”
According to authorities, the victim was flown to an area hospital in critical condition. She was in stable condition Monday, police said.
“This just gets worse and worse the more you dig into it,” Gagan said. “It was like a horror movie after looking at the evidence. I can’t believe not one person felt compelled to help her.”
“Multiple offenders, multiple people raping over prolonged period,” said Lt. Mark Gagan with the Richmond police.
What makes this crime so shocking is that police say at least 20 people were involved in the rape or stood and watched the crime without going for help.
“These are witnesses that are encouraging and allowing behavior to continue,” Gagan said.
For those who watched and did nothing, it may be morally reprehensible, but it’s not illegal.
“Although this is a very difficult crime to hear about, the fact is California law does not impose an affirmative obligation on anyone to do anything when you are watching a crime,” said Trent Copeland, a legal analyst. – cbsnews
thatgirlwithablog said
This is absolutely disgusting and terrible. What the hell is wrong with kids today!?
NYCdrizzle said
i totally agree, what the hell is wrong with these guys? the way they act is a reflection of the way they were brought up as children, its absolutly discusting that 20 people sat around and watched and nothing was said until she was found unconcious under a bench??? do the kids that attend school in the bay understand humanity at all??? and where the HELL were the teachers, security, parents doing at the time? campus cameras? and this went on for 2 1/2 hours during a school dance?!?!! that is absolutly obsurd! i blame the school and the “chaperones” that attending to keep an “eye” on the dance. i find this school sooooo poorly run. i could actually see how these kids could do something like that, when there is absolutly no supervision, and knowledge of harrassment and inappropriate, violent behavior.
this is so disturbing.. learn how to run a school, and i doubt CA police will follow through with this. my heart goes out to the victim and her family, and anyone involved deserves to be put away.-A
Hahahah said
That’s funny that it says “Mexicans Gang Rape Girl”… truth is, it was Mexicans AND Blacks. I’m looking for the girl’s picture or at least a description though.
Nunya Bizniss said
One of the kids was White too.
angry aunty said
it doesnt matter the race of any of those sleeze bags. it matters the crime they committed .so stop trying to make glory for yourself out of something so horrible that happened to that little girl. how would you like it if it was your daughter.
notsurprised said
With all this bullshit rap and sex sells garbage that we display to our kids, it’s not surprising that a crime like this happened. I knew that there was a high change no other girls were around because men seem extra prone to committing stupid shit acts like this and women, unless of course they had a vendetta against this poor girl, would probably be more likely to report it. Regardless though, I’m not going to repeat anything that hasn’t been said before, these cretins need to be castrated and flogged alive. An eye for an eye, although barbaric in nature, proves to be a very effective crime stopper…at least 1/9th of the time. My heart goes out to the 15 year old girl. She’s just a child and to have to be degraded by a rainbow coalition of scum and gutter rats is REPREHENSIBLE.
California yet again disappoints me. First gay marriage and now, no law to punish those who thought it was a bukkake porno and stood watching while a CHILD’s innocence was taken from her. May this state fall into absolute chaos and hopeful disintegration.
Xeno said
I feel your anger and I have just as much, but an eye for an eye doesn’t work. If it did, the Middle East would be the most peaceful place on earth. Instead it is the most violent. The reason is, revenge creates a cycle of violence. To stop sexual and other violence what is really needed is education. Changing people’s attitudes is the most lasting form of prevention.
I guess you already said that… if an eye for an eye works 1/9th of the time (and fails 8/9ths of the time) then it is obvious that getting some bigger guys to gang rape each of these guys is not the answer. Life in prison sounds about right … which might result in the same thing anyway. My preference, thinking about compassion, is that doctors/scientists get inside their brains and remove the diseased parts. Then they could function again, with some rehabilitation, as the girl’s personal slaves for life. Just kidding. Slavery is another wrong that should not be added. But that’s what my emotions say.
Being aware of our emotions is a key to not acting them out.
john said
The middle east is a mess because mobs carry out their own vengeance. We need to implement harsh punishment in the judicial system. These guys should be put to sleep. We have problems with sexual offenders who recidivism rate is so high its nearly a gaurentee they will commit again. These guys should be castrated no doubt.
TheMETALguy said
Make them suffer i think they should get their faces smashed in with a hammer and then dragged across needles and if that isnt enough cut the, open and move their lungs over their rib cage and do a bloody eagle
erika said
I graduated from Richmond high in 2003 and it is saddening and depressing to see how things do not change. Richmond High as well as the city it self are entangled in a vicious cycle of violence, poverty, desperation and ignorance. In particular, the youth is caught in the middle of that entanglement and therefore reinforcing the vicious cycle. The youth of Richmond need to be enlightened and given a sense of self and leadership to be able to stand up for their moral values and not follow others like monkeys to commit hideous acts like this one.
Nunya Bizniss said
That is in insult to monkeys.
Xeno said
Update:
Veronica said
It is reprehensible that these monster bystanders should go unpunished. If they cheered on and encouraged this atrocity they should be considered intellectual actors to the crime and charged with aiding and abbeting. There should be country-wide passage of legislation of Bad Samaritan laws which punish those who can, w/o putting themselves at risk, stop or report the comission of a crime. All these bystanders had to do was call 911 w/o implicating themselves further, but their lack of a moral base prevented them from it. The aunt of one of the arrested, who claims he was a bystander only, alleges that he did not report the crime for fear of being hurt. That excuse is not only laughable but offensive. For the time being, the community should demand the publoc relase of not only all those who participated in this crime but of the bystanders also and if the law cannot do anything to make them pay, let the communith do it by ostricizing and shaming these monsters. There was a famous case whereby a man saw the rape of a child by his friend and did nothing to stop it. He had been admittd to UCLA and when he reported for classes the students staged a walk-out in every class as they, rightly so, refused to be seating in the same classroom and breathing the same air as that of a monster. Eventually he was kicked out of the school bc the sudent population refused to have him there. This type of community action is necessary here. These bystanders should be kicked out of the school, their names publically released and colleges (if any of them would go or applied anyway) rescind their accepances. Let community outrage makeup where the law is lacking.
shorteyes said
will Jody Foster play the victim??
did she have a “sexy Sadie” license plate?
tara said
After reading this my stomach literally hurts for this poor girl. The guys who attacked her (and those who watched) should all be lined up and shot.
Caleb Maynard said
I cant stand this I grew up in small town Idaho if this would of happened about 10 redneck highschool kids would have grabbed their deer rifles and shotguns from their trucks and stopped this crap yep we all have deer rifles in our trucks and not one school shooting
its tha M.O.B ($ OVA BOYS said
wtf damit blud thats (screw) up how ecery1 got n this (stuff) cuz am pretty sure they were all drunkk n doin them ya feel me (dont get mi wrong ) its (screw)d up how she got “raped” but i think how tha feds r putin this story is not teling tha rite story cuz all em nigga is not gonna do that come on blud think a lil … ya knw n tha rich it goes dwn tho lols so out siders dont think off all em like that just some ahah n for tha 1nz who didnt do iht free um ya digg …iht gone
TheMETALguy said
are you (screw)ing retarded? i think you have to reread the article and look at thing suspecious and thats horrible another thing is why would they “(screw)” someone in the (screw)ing wide open and + your (screw)ing retarded if you dont think these guys did it seriously and please think of a way to commrnt back instead of miss spelling every word you type
Joe said
Castrate at least the one who started it and maybe all of the sick dogs who participated. Then publish a movie of him lying on the ground with his “stuff” next to him on Utube. You will then be able to count on this type of s*** decreasing in frequency.
Of course, this will not happen in the U.S. because we are oh so worried about the world’s opinion of us, being politically correct, human rights (but not victim’s rights), due process of law, etc., etc.
I don’t give damn who doesn’t like it, an eye for an eye does work. This kind of thing happens because it CAN happen.
For all you a-holes out there who thing this is OK or cool, I hope the same happens to you.
Signed,
A 20-year-old-guy Who’s Sick at the Thought of This
Xeno said
The urge for revenge is deep and primitive but it doesn’t matter if we like it or not, the fact is, “an eye for an eye” is a total failure. History proved you wrong.
People thought like you did for thousands of years before we came up with our system of modern laws. Revenge as “justice” leads only to endless tribal/gang wars.
You proved the point yourself by naming a punishment which exceeds the crime. Castration is not an eye for an eye. It is a head for an eye. An eye for an eye would be if you rape the rapist. Then what? Then you get a third rapist to rape the second rapist who committed the crime of rape against the first rapist as part of your system of justice?? See, this is why it doesn’t work. People will go nuts and extract more payment than is fair because “fair” is different for each person. That difference of opinion causes others to seek their own fairness for YOUR injustice and pretty soon you have the Middle East infecting the whole planet with sick thinking.
Join us in fixing the problem rather than perpetuating it. Only education can change the sick thinking that made this seem acceptable behavior to these individuals. Strike at the root, don’t wait for the tree to grow and then attack it with an axe.
Ann said
It seems most want to punish the offenders, while the reasons for the offenses stay within the people who committed crime and their families.
Why doesn’t anyone focus on American culture, which has one of the, if not the highest crime rates, but most definitely the highest number of prisoners in the world.
Does anyone really think executing a few others is going to make any difference?
Sure, it’ll “get your rocks off,” but what is the larger good of that? But, we call that “justice,” but it’s only our why at looking at. Justice is not necessarily synonymous to revenge in other countries (but, Gosh! those other countries have less crime!)
Why doesn’t anyone look at our history? Why are young people so interested in sex and/or power to force themselves on innocent others? You know, it was NOT always this way. I suggest, if you want to really make a difference, study your history. There specific reasons for the changes in our society. They didn’t just happen by chance.
Angie said
This just makes me sick! Even children are committing heinous crimes these days, remember the 4-year old boy who got stuffed in a dryer? Well, he got raped too! And by a 12-year old to boot!
Stephani said
she wanted it but she realized she couldn’t handle it no more so she refused to give it up and they beat her for sex. i ain’t gonna lie i got i trained before by 30 guys i think at Kennedy High School 3 years ago when i was 14
Xeno said
I appreciate the honesty. This “train” thing is happening up in Oregon as well? You should talk to someone like a therapist if your experience was disturbing, probably even if you think it wasn’t.
You need to know that “beating someone for sex” is not something normal people do, even experimental teenagers. The only people who would do this are sick and need help. Unfortunately, teenagers learn observing others actions. This makes cruel and perverted behaviors contagious, especially among those who already have a weak sense of self or low self-esteem.
angry aunty said
you stupid ass little girl that aint cuteat fourteen you should have been trying to get a education then you would have known that it was wrong. you wanted it this girl was forced upon.your just retarded get your education before you tell any one else how dumb you are.
Xeno said
Yelling at kids and calling them stupid is not going to help them. It might make you feel better, but if you make them feel worse about themselves, they will go do MORE bad behaviors to live up to your low expectations. Bad parenting move. Criticize the action, not the person. Explain the consequences. Show them respect and they will become respectful adults.
Promiscuity itself is not tied to a lack of intelligence. As a straight “A” student, I knew other straight “A” students at my High School who were very experimental. I experimented in some wild (legal, consensual) ways with some of them!
What kids need to know is that, if they do have a choice, a single poor choice as teenager can lead to a lifetime of problems forming normal healthy relationships. Value your experiences and set yourself up to succeed. One “train” can screw your head up for life and make you feel and act like an object rather than a person.
Stephani said
STFU bitch you just jealous because u ugly ass (screw) and nobody wanted to (screw) you in high school i do my school work its just on the side i need to have a lil fun.
Xeno said
Ladies, communicate with more respect.
Stephanie, as I said, I think your sense of self got messed with a few years ago. You need to fix it to meet your full potential as you go forward. People are worthy of love and attention for creativity, the way they care for others, and many other reasons that have nothing to do with physical attractiveness or the number of lovers they have. You may know that in your head, but your response showed a hidden belief that you feel you are of value as a person because a lot of people wanted to have sex with you. That kind of self-value (I have a nice body, I am good at sex, etc.) is not bad as part of a whole package, but if you let that become your identity you will miss out on your share of deep genuine love.
You two commented on my blog, so I’m telling you my thoughts, but I’m not licensed as an Internet therapist… so, if you find yourself having trouble, getting in fights, feeling angry, defensive, having eating disorders, feeling like you want to harm yourself, having problems with cheating, addiction, or anything like that, remember what I said here and go talk to a professional counselor. Some are lame but if you find the right one he or she can pretty much save your life.
Rape Hurts All said
As a man with sisters and female loved ones this sickens me to NO END and makes me want to destroy the ones responsible.
That being said this line got me…..
“And boys, if you have any functioning brain cells left, don’t use them to kid yourself that she will be okay because she has only non-life threatening external injuries. What this does to a person, quite often, is that it destroys her sense of self worth to such a degree that she eventually ends up killing herself.”
…..as though men cant be rapped. If these guys get convicted (like they should) then trust me they will get rapped harder than they ever chould imagine by bigger nastier men.
And little boy’s are being the victim of sick catholic priest and pedofiles all the time. Soo to equate males to a bunch of chuckling school boys in the corner is not my idea of getting the proper point across.
RAPE DESTROYS ALL LIVES. Lives of the fathers, brothers ect…. It can happen to males and females and its no good for anyone. If they dont seek forgivness they will suffer for eternity as well as potentially for the rest of there natural life.
We should concentrate on a more rational way of nailing these scumbags aside from childish ideas like castrating them and posting it on you tube…dont worry they will get much worse of a punishment.
Xeno said
Good points, thank you. Well said.
Rape Hurts All said
BTW: Not all rape victims kill themselves and the turn a very ugly negative into a positive.
Some victims have even helped develop centers for potential rap victim, abused wives ect….
Again: Its something that should never, ever happen and i would like to rip off the face of the assaulters and see them deprecated in the same way. But, if its something that this young girl has to deal with then lets not harp on the sadness of her state of being and concentrating on getting these guys. And doing something about the sick little bastards that sat around and did nothing/laughed and took pics. We need a law to prevent this kind of Pluralistic ignorance.
If i was there, i would be kicking their scared little asses all over the place.(pending the confirmed safety of the victim of coarse) I have some military buddies that whouldnt mind helping me out either.
jennifer said
it is clear that this was a hate crime black and mexician do this all the time to white woman and woman of their own race, it clear that whites do not do this, race has everything to do with it they are animials and i am sick of their race card for sex crimes the punishment sholud be cut their balls off.
Xeno said
Here is some data on age and ethnicity for this crime.