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A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested over the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in Chicago that was streamed live on Facebook and watched by about 40 people who didn’t report it to authorities, police have said.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said more arrests are expected as the investigation continues. Police have said the attack involved five or six males, and Guglielmi said the boy “was one of the offenders in the video”.
Guglielmi said the juvenile suspect faces felony charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault, and manufacturing and dissemination of images of child sexual abuse.
The spokesman has said police were not aware of the mid-March attack until the girl’s mother approached Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and showed him the video.
‘Visibly upset’
Johnson was “visibly upset” after he watched, both by the video’s content and the fact that there were “40 or so live viewers and no one thought to call authorities”, Guglielmi said.
The girl’s mother said her daughter received online threats following the attack. The Chicago Sun Times later reported that the girl’s family had been relocated.
The video marks the second time in recent months that Chicago police have investigated an apparent attack that was broadcast live on Facebook. In January, four people were arrested after video showed them allegedly taunting and beating a man with mental disabilities.
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Very sad for all involved. My local area is crazy with quads on both main roads and by-roads. Only a matter of time before there is a serious accident. Most are young boys on them and parents just let them.
A beach buggy should certainly not be used on a public road. They are extremely unsafe in a collision. They have no safety rating.
@Fiona deFreyne: beach buggy sounds like a toy. It’s obvious it’s a quad and kids in rural areas get to use them like cars to get around. Far too dangerous, and the parents will have to live with giving their kids (who are only above the Santa age) access to a motorised vehicle.
@Gulliver Foyle: I’m sure the parents are well aware of that without you pointing it out.
Beach buggies, quads and jeeps like Hilux’s should not be allowed on the roads, was only looking at two of these Jeep types fully kitted with killer bull bars in the last hour, not saying that this Hilux was fitted with them but they seem to be a fashion accessory these days, at the least a high category of road tax should apply to them, R.I.P. poor child.
@Charles Coughlan: good idea,a higher road tax will make them much softer in the event of a collision,
@Charles Coughlan: I did some research on ‘Bull bars’ in the early ’90′s. Even milk delivery vans were fitted with them! The CSO were no use for statistics because they only release agenda – driven sexy soundbites for the Government. Turned out the most popular 4×4′s were being fitted with ‘Bull bars’ made by companies around Dublin. Nice little remove from the manufacturers / garages (and S.I.M.I.!) Meanwhile in the U.K., the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) told me that they had a voluntary, industry – wide ban on them.
@Charles Coughlan: Jeeps like Hilux’s should not be allowed on the road..are you for real?
what idiot allowed them on that..???
@David Peate: You assume a lot. This is life changing for three families.
@David Peate: The article isn’t detailed enough to make out what exactly happened – but one idiot will always jump to conclusions. So sad, whatever occurred…
@Thomas Blackcat: cut the PC crap. No child should have access to a buggy like that and be allowed to or have the chance to take keys and bring it on the road or anywhere without an adult. It’s exactly this kind of attitude that allows scores of children to be killed on farms. A complete lack of adult supervision resulting in tragedy
@ChuckE: Where are keys mentioned?
@Thomas Blackcat: Well, we’re they on the beech buggy or not?, if they were then someone is responsible .
@Thomas Blackcat: Either they had keys or they hotwired it. Keys are far more likely, don’t you think?
@John Carberry: Perhaps. But I’ll await a more comprehensive report. Why even assume the vehicle had an engine – many beach buggies are pedal powered!?
@Thomas Blackcat: Take a hike Tom
@Thomas Blackcat: I think you’re confusing go-karts and beach buggies….
@David Peate:
I agree.
And to those who suggested they might not have been allowed –
Even if they weren’t explicitly allowed, the vehicle was left in a position where they could take it. Which amounts to the same thing as allowing them to take it and use it.
@Cian O Donoghue:
You assume a lot too…
I assumed when they “crashed into a car” was that the car was stationary and therefore probably unoccupied.
@Michael Carolan: I assumed when he said the driver of the other vehicle was uninjured, that it was occupied…
@Danny Gibson: oops!!! Should have read the full article. Lesson learned.
RIP. That was a pick up truck, not a car. Gardai quick enough to confiscate cars for no tax ….
@Anthony Halpin: nothing to do with the Gardai, it’s PSNI terrority
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