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Police: As many as 20 present at gang rape outside school dance

Richmond, California (CNN) -- Investigators say as many as 20 people were involved in or stood and watched the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance Saturday night.

Police posted a $20,000 reward Tuesday for anyone who comes to them with information that helps arrest and convict those involved in what authorities describe as a 2½-hour assault on the Richmond High School campus in suburban San Francisco.

Two teenage suspects have been jailed, but more arrests, as many as 20 total, are expected, according to a police detective.

"We will be making arrests continually as we develop probable cause," said Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan. "With this number of people implicated in the incident we're going to be making arrests on an ongoing basis."

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

A 1999 California law makes it illegal not to report a witnessed crime against a child, but the law applies only to children 14 and under.

"We do not have the ability to arrest people who witnessed the crime and did nothing," Gagan said. "The law can be very rigid. We don't have the authority to make an arrest."

Charles Ramsey, a member of the Richmond school board, said the school district bears some responsibility for the attack. School administrators and police apparently weren't watching the area as they should have, Ramsey said.

The school said it would hold a safety meeting for parents and students Wednesday evening to address the assault.

The victim was found unconscious 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," Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan said.

The girl was flown by helicopter to a hospital where she was admitted in critical condition. She was in stable condition Tuesday, police said.

Investigators canvassed the community with fliers, which included the reward offer, hoping to identify more suspects Tuesday.

"There is one individual in custody who has made some spontaneous statements that have led me to believe that he is culpable for what happened," Richmond police Lt. Johan Simon said.

Nineteen-year-old Manuel Ortega, described as a former student at the school, was arrested soon after he fled the scene and will face charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping, police said.

A 15-year-old was later arrested and charged with one count of felony sexual assault. A third teenager was being interviewed, Gagan said.

"Based on witness statements and suspect statements, and also physical evidence, we know that she was raped by at least four suspects committing multiple sex acts," Gagan said.

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

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

[Der Nister]

I think public beatings are a just punishment for all of those that are guilty of this crime.

[Rev.Reverence]

sick beyond all belief

You got me...you fuckin' got me...fuckin' woah..no one ever gets me with that one...but, you got me.....& what D'Nister said!

[Msterbeau]

I think public beatings are a just punishment for all of those that are guilty of this crime.

By the girl, when she recovers. That should help the mental healing process a bit...

[Rev.Reverence]

By the girl, when she recovers. That should help the mental healing process a bit...

...& we (The Peoples) can hand her really cool shit, like ball-peen-hammers & such; all the while, holding them down for her.....trust, she'll be happy to have some peoples to laugh about it with her over sodas later.

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and the leftovers go to dominatrixes(sp) with the largest strap-ons ever made

[KatRN05]

I think public beatings are a just punishment for all of those that are guilty of this crime.

I think public castration would be even better...

[Tacohitts]

Castrate them like they do with cattle on a ranch,video tape it and make show called "Punishments That Fit The Crime"

Edited October 29, 2009 by Tacohitts

[Lillylu29]

upsetting very disturbed by this....

[TitsMcGee]

I think public castration would be even better...

With a dull rusty steak knife.

[Hellion]

I have zero tolarance in cases of rape may the SOB's be punished by a shanking in prison,this is disgusting!

Edited October 29, 2009 by Darque Metallion

[KatRN05]

With a dull rusty steak knife.

A butter knife.

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

nu-uh. a spoon. lol

yeah. I hope she's ok. and I hope she doesn't end up pregnant because of this....

[phee]

Good thing she didn't work for Haliburton

[Oh_My_Goth]

There are no words to describe the things that should be done to these boys for what they have done

[TheGimp]

ok...ill agree with Rev...and torn public beating's the umpteenth degree well in my personal opinion more then a beating with cool shit...she should be aloud to rape him...via strap-on, and be able to preform some hardcore ass CBT on him...i wont get into detials about what she should be allowed to do to his genitals because i don't want people to think i'm nuts..but yea...

edit: ive made the choice that i really don't care what people think about what i think should be done to him, in my belief he should be stripped naked tied to a tree or pole the girl should be given a potato peeler, small glass rods, safety pins, and salt and bleach and a strap-on

strap on to rape him with, safety pins to take and stick and prod and push into his genitals the small glass rods could be slipped into his pee hole and then she should break the small glass rods which are nicely inbeded inside his urethra, and the potato peeler to well take some skin off his ass and then the bleach and salt to rub into the wounds...

rather graphic i know...but..that's my opinion I'm sure the pain he would feel wouldn't even compare to what she felt

Edited October 29, 2009 by TheGimp

[n0Mad]

With the way our society is going, I'm surprised no one taped it and put it on YouTube.

[Tacohitts]

Gotta society in America,this is an example of how a lot of people have become,I hope everyone involved in this sick ass crime get raped by the system in prison(Bubba) themselves.

[AstralCrux]

Just save us all the grief, after trial conviction, hang them....

[Onyx]

Sad that there were all those witnesses who just stood by and did nothing to help her.

[EAF (1)]

People always think i'm crazy when I say that societies morals are decreasing in standards, or that people worry too much about the wrong things in life like who should be allowed to get married ect. People as a whole need a wake-up call, honestly I think people should at least feel obligated to call 911 in a situation such as this. The fact that no one did is even sadder than the fact that this act could have been stopped since the number of viewers was the same number if not more than the actual rapists. Only 15 years old and already some people think things like this are okay? Wow...this is the next generation?

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WOW I seem to have brought everyone together.....mob rule

[EAF (1)]

The sad thing is sometimes it takes something like this to pull people together finally. (Not really speaking of DGN lol. I mean in general.)

[Tacohitts]

Sad that there were all those witnesses who just stood by and did nothing to help her.

Its apathy, most of society in this country is like that,they look at others like they are blades of grass,and thats it,sad very sad.

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Fortunately I don't think anyone I know would do this (or not do something as the case may be).

"The only thing necessery for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." ~ Somewhere in the Bible