This is beyond sickening. I cant think of a violent enough punishment for these $cumbags.
If this was my daughter, i'd find anyway possible to get at each and everyone. This is why I couldnt be a cop. My self control would be nonexistant.
I cant understand how any lawyer in good conscience could ever defend people like this.
Police officer describes horror of finding gang-rape victim naked on park bench | Mail Online
'I thought she was dead': Policeman describes horror of finding bloody and naked gang-rape victim, 16, on park bench
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:28 AM on 17th November 2010
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He breaks down during trial of seven men charged with two-hour sex attack
Girl had been walking home from school dance
Officer Gunnar Googins explained that suspect Manuel Ortega told him to 'just go ahead and kill me'
A policeman broke down in court as he described finding a gang-rape victim in such a shocking condition he thought she was dead.
The 16-year-old, who had been attacked coming home from a school homecoming dance in Richmond, San Francisco, was slung naked across a park bench, bloodied and vomiting while her alleged attackers ran from the scene.
Seven men are standing trial for the sex assault in October 2009 – six, ranging in age from 16 to 43, could face life imprisonment for their involvement.
And Elvis Torrentes, of Richmond, faces charges including aiding the act of rape that could land him in prison for 26 years.
Witnesses told police that as many as 20 people had participated in the two-hour rape, but only the seven in court yesterday have been arrested.
‘She was wet and clammy,’ officer Todd Kaiser, the first witness to testify, said at Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez yesterday.
‘I thought she was dead. The only thing touching the ground was the tops of her feet and the side of her face.
‘I went up and shook her and she moaned a little bit.'
He told the court that the victim's father had arrived while the girl was at the rape site, waiting to be taken by helicopter to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
The father said he had been frantically calling his daughter for some time when he couldn't locate her after the dance.
Finally a male had picked up the phone, officer Kaiser said.
‘The male told him “how good his daughter” performed sex acts,’ he said.
Officer Kaiser's colleague on the scene, Gunnar Googins, testified that he had arrived at the scene just after another officer caught Manuel Ortega, 20, running away.
Accused: Three of the alleged rapists are led from court. Six of the suspects face life in prison if convicted
‘I went over to where (the other officer) and Ortega were, and he (Ortega) said, “I just wanted to pimp her out”,’ Googins testified. Ortega was drunk, he said.
Officer Googins said he had asked Ortega ‘what he meant by “pimping her out” and he answered: “Just go ahead and kill me.” He said it several times.’
The other defendants are Cody Smith, 16, Ari Morales, 17, Jose Montano, 19, Marcelles Peter, 18, and John Crane Junior, 43.
The preliminary hearing before Judge Gregory Caskey is expected to last one to three weeks.
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