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Can Prosecutors Charge Gang Rape Witnesses for Doing Nothing?

The crowd of students who watched and may have even recorded a 2½ hour gang rape of a California teenager should be held criminally liable for indirectly encouraging the attack, experts told ABC News today. The outrage over the gang rape of the 15-year-old girl outside Richmond High School's homecoming dance is equaled by the fury that so many stood by and watched, and may have encouraged the attackers by their actions or their words. Dara Cashman, head of the Contra County sex assault unit,...Full Story
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