Richmond High Rape

I would like to focus on the Richmond High School rape case. In the case Four teenagers face potential life sentences in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside her homecoming dance at Richmond High School. I found it very surprising that the 16-year-old also has been charged with robbery. To see the incident occur after a dance was the biggest surprise, I expected the men and women in the immediate area to help the women in distress, but this clearly did not happen. One main point of the story was the fact that the victim drank a large amount of brandy in a short period of time while socializing, police said, then collapsed. Someone dragged her to a bench, where several people stripped her, beat her, stole her jewelry and other belongings, and raped her.
The school board had an immediate response towards the event. West Contra Costa school board's safety subcommittee hosted a meeting Wednesday night following the event in the high school auditorium, where about 100 community members vented over the rape, particularly focusing on the lack of security cameras and fencing around the campus. The district has drawn fire over the on-campus assault and its perceived sluggishness to add long-promised safety features to Richmond High.
The case was clearly a gang rape. A gang rape, or mass rape, occurs when a group of people participate in the rape of a single victim. Rape involving at least two or more perpetrators is widely reported to occur in many parts of the world. Systematic information on the extent of the problem, however, is scant. Gang rapes involved more alcohol and drug use, night attacks and severe sexual assault outcomes and less victim resistance and fewer weapons than individual rapes. Another study found that group sexual assaults were more violent and had greater resistance from the victim than individual sexual assaults and that victims of group sexual assaults were more likely to seek crisis and police services, to contemplate suicide and seek therapy than those involved in individual assaults. As such was the case in this story.
Overall I am disappointed that people my age would commit such acts and the best society can do as a whole is learn from the event.