Thread: Teens held over homecoming dance gang rape UPDATED

Teens held over homecoming dance gang rape

Police: ‘People came by, saw what was happening and failed to report it’
updated 3:02 a.m. PT, Tues., Oct . 27, 2009

RICHMOND, Calif. - Police believe as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance without reporting it.

Two suspects were in custody Monday, but police said as many as five other men attacked the girl over a two-hour period Friday night outside Richmond High School.

"She was raped, beaten, robbed and dehumanized by several suspects who were obviously OK enough with it to behave that way in each other's presence," Lt. Mark Gagan said. "What makes it even more disturbing is the presence of others. People came by, saw what was happening and failed to report it."

The victim remained hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

Manuel Ortega, 19, was arrested at the scene and was being held on $800,000 bail for investigation of rape and robbery. He is not a student at the school.

Richmond police Sgt. David Harris said he did not know if Ortega had retained an attorney.

A 15-year-old student also was booked late Monday on one count of sexual assault, Gagan said.

Police said the girl left the dance and was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group drinking in the courtyard. The victim had drank a large amount of alcohol by the time the assault began, police said.

Officers received a tip about a possible assault on campus and found the girl semi-conscious near a picnic table.

Marin Trujillo, a spokesman for the West Contra Costa Unified School District, said there were four police officers and three school administrators monitoring the dance, but the assault happened away from the gym.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33486372/ns ... nd_courts/

Manuel Ortega

BIG FRECKIN SURPRISE!!!! I bet his gang buddies are a mix of legal and Illegals, whatever the case this is totally the worst, no matter what status or race!!!x

Gang rape... extensive in 3rd world nations.

Gang rape... becoming more prevalent in America thanks to illegal immigration.

W

Originally Posted by 93camaro

Manuel Ortega

BIG FRECKIN SURPRISE!!!! I bet his gang buddies are a mix of legal and Illegals, whatever the case this is totally the worst, no matter what status or race!!!x

My first thoughts, too 93camaro.

Yea, let's give these poor criminals amnesty. It is sickening.

Marin Trujillo, a spokesman for the West Contra Costa Unified School District, said there were four police officers and three school administrators monitoring the dance

What the heck! We never had cops at our school events, just a custodian to lock up afterwards.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

Marin Trujillo, a spokesman for the West Contra Costa Unified School District, said there were four police officers and three school administrators monitoring the dance

What the heck! We never had cops at our school events, just a custodian to lock up afterwards.

Dixie

4 cops and no one thought to walk the perimeter of the school every 15 minutes looking for problems?

Originally Posted by florgal

Originally Posted by 93camaro

Manuel Ortega

BIG FRECKIN SURPRISE!!!! I bet his gang buddies are a mix of legal and Illegals, whatever the case this is totally the worst, no matter what status or race!!!x

My first thoughts, too 93camaro.

Ditto that. It's almost shocking when its NOT someone with a latin sounding name commiting crimes. I have no idea what this scum's legal status is-but the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree - and the illegal doesn't fall too far from thier country....

Those people can't take no for answer. Here is another example.

http://cbs4.com/local/Caesar.Pinto.Walt.2.1272916.html

Oct 27, 2009 1:21 pm US/Eastern Man Accused Of Fondling Woman At Disney Park
Woman Reportedly Fondled In Typhoon Lagoon Wave Pool ORLANDO (CBS4) ―

A South Florida man was arrested in Orlando after police say he fondled a woman at a popular Walt Disney World water park.

19-year-old Caesar Pinto, of Fort Lauderdale, was arrested after allegedly fondling a woman in the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon.

Investigators say the 30-year-old victim at first thought it was an accident when she felt someone grab her bikini and touch her. She began yelling and kicking after she saw Caesar Pinto approach again when the next wave came.

A park security guard watched Pinto after the Sunday incident until Orange County deputies arrived. Pinto, who has since bonded out, was at the park with his mother.

Disney says the arrest shows that kind of behavior won't be tolerated at the park.

At least five similar arrests have been made in the past few months at Orlando water parks, including another at Typhoon Lagoon, Sea World's Aquatica and Universal's Wet 'n Wild.

Originally Posted by Dixie

Marin Trujillo, a spokesman for the West Contra Costa Unified School District, said there were four police officers and three school administrators monitoring the dance

What the heck! We never had cops at our school events, just a custodian to lock up afterwards.

Dixie

We never had cops either, at school functions. But that was back when America was still America.