I originally expressed my disgust and dismay October over the incident which happened at Richmond High in Richmond, California. Words cannot express my feelings at this moment at the horror and disgust I feel today.
A 15-year-old girl was raped by two men Friday night after the assailants and two other men forced her into a car at gunpoint in Richmond, the same city where a high school student was gang raped after leaving her homecoming dance in October, police said Saturday.
The girl attacked Friday was walking to her Richmond home at 5 p.m. when four men in a black Buick pulled up to her on Cutting Boulevard near Stege Avenue, police Sgt. Bisa French said.The girl did not know the men and refused to answer as they called out to her several times, police Lt. Mark Gagan said.
One of the men then jumped from the car and forced her inside at gunpoint, the girl told police. They drove around for several hours before stopping at an unknown location, where two of the men sexually assaulted her, French said.
They released her near the bus turnaround at Contra Costa Community College, where a San Pablo police officer found her around midnight, Gagan said. She was taken to a hospital and received a sexual assault exam, then was released.
Police said the girl described the men as being in their 20s; one was African American with long dreadlocks and had the word "money" tattooed on the side of his neck, she said. No one has been arrested.
"When you have someone taken off the street at gunpoint and sexually assaulted, these suspects are looking at life in prison," Gagan said.
I have to fight back the urge to vomit as I read this story. I was extremely dismayed at the incident which happened in October, as a poor girl was repeatedly raped for two and a half hours right outside a high school gymnasium which was supposedly guarded by several police officers and security guards. After seeing this, I have no doubt that not only, should all of the police officers of the Richmond California Police Department be fired, they should be prosecuted for gross negligence. This makes me so disgusted and enraged, I feel like packing up a kit and going over to Richmond to serve up some vigilante justice ala Charles Bronson in Death Wish.
Don't worry, it's just the Richmond Police...Carry on.
What exactly are they doing in Richmond? They're still looking for the quote "seventh suspect" in the original offense, and this happens. It sounds to me like, the Richmond Police are beyond just being incompetent, it sounds to me like they are in on it! So much for Richmond being a good community and that we should not judge them based on this one incident. I think they got their one pass, and now they need to face the music.
This is beyond gross negligence. This is beyond incompetence. This is beyond societal neglect. There is a real problem in Richmond California, and something needs to be done about it. For something this vile and preposterous to happen once is one thing. For it to happen twice shows a clear and present problem which needs to be investigated and addressed. Some officials need to go to jail over this. I say we start with Lt. Mark Gagan, the man who is oh so quick to jump in front of the cameras and grab all the press after he and his inept police force drop the ball.
Gagan said police do not believe there is any link between Friday's attack and the Oct. 24 gang rape of a 16-year-old Richmond High School girl. In that case, six young men ages 15 to 21 have been charged with sexually assaulting the sophomore, who police say was repeatedly raped for two hours after leaving the homecoming dance while as many as 20 people watched.
The attack took place on the Richmond High campus, about a mile and a half northwest of where the girl reported being kidnapped Friday.
On Friday, Richmond police said they were looking for a seventh suspect in the Richmond High rape, 43-year-old John Crane Jr. Investigators said Crane raped the victim while she was unconscious. They have not been able to locate him, despite an intensive manhunt.
Oh, really? Richmond is really that big of a place that an "intense manhunt" can ensue and no one is found? Well, okay, we'll be nice and buy that line, but guess what Mark, it happened AGAIN! Only a mile away on the same campus, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! Oh, but you're still looking for the seventh suspect for the original rape which happened over THREE MONTHS AGO! Who is to blame here? I wonder.
