The Moreno Valley assault is the third recently of a girl by teenage boys and men. It may have been part of an initiation by a street gang, which used a 15-year-old girl to lure the victim, reports Christine Pelisek.
Seven teenagers in California are accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in a park bathroom, the latest in a series of horrifying gang rapes that have hit the news in recent weeks.
The case is the third in a row in which a girl has been attacked by a group of teenage boys and men. In February, 18 teenage boys and men in their 20s were arrested for . That same month, a 13-year-old middle school student reported that a boy sexually assaulted her while two of his friends held her down in a park in Banning, a small city 80 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
“They obviously care about nothing or no one,” said Moreno Valley Police Department Lt. Chad Bianco about the attacks. "It makes you wonder what they are thinking. It is hard to even imagine. There is no way to describe it.”
This latest assault, which involves a street gang that used a teenage girl to lure the victim, has shocked the 186,000 residents of , the second-largest city in Riverside County, and whose motto is: “Where dreams soar.”
The March attack was as brazen as it was nervy. It took place in a park replete with picnic tables, grill pits and a soccer field, less than 50 feet from an elementary school and large residential homes.
“The community is up in arms,” said Moreno Valley Mayor Richard Stewart. “I view the kids as unsocialized. I can’t imagine a gang thinking it
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