Gang rape video goes viral, shocking South Africa

Gang rape video goes viral, shocking South Africa


A video of a 17-year-old girl being gang raped spread by cell phones through South Africa on Wednesday, shocking a nation battling an epidemic of violence against women.
The girl was reported missing in late March and was apparently raped last week in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, police said.
Reporters from the tabloid Daily Sun brought the video to the attention of police, who found the girl on Wednesday and began arresting suspects.
"She was found with another man in his house," Warrant Officer Kay Makhubele told the Sapa news agency.
"Obviously she is traumatised and we are going to take her to the doctor now," he said.
The girl has the mental capacity of a four-year-old, according to the Eyewitness News website.
Watching the video is a crime under South Africa's child pornography law.

The Star newspaper reported online that the video lasts 10 minutes and 33 seconds, showing her being raped by seven different males, as she screams: "You are forcing me, you are forcing me."
The video's spread has forced South Africa to confront its staggering incidence of rape. More than 56,000 cases were reported to police last year.
But the crime is often under-reported, like the case of the 17-year-old. A 2009 study by the government's Medical Research Council revealed that only one in 25 rapes were reported to the police.
The same survey found more than one quarter of South African men admitted to raping a woman or girl.

Minister for women and children Lulu Xingwana condemned the rape and the spread of the video, which local media said was circulating mainly among teenagers in Johannesburg's Soweto township.
"In addition to the painful ordeal of rape the young woman was forced to endure, she is now subjected to a second assault on her dignity," Xingwana said in a statement.
While the video is being spread through cell phones and social media, the same technology has captured national outrage at the crime, with the story at the top of Twitter's South Africa trending list.


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I'm not shocked by the rape. I am shocked at the video's popularity, and the fact that 25% of interviewed SA men admit to raping a woman or a girl according to a study.



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Yes, they find it acceptable to rape. Like I said, SA was a first world country and now it's degenerated and getting worse.
What kind of people do things like this???

It certainly is not civilized behavior.

 

It was an apartheid state,hardly first world.

 

Some gang rapes are political in nature. If the victim was white this may have been payback.

 

so being gang raped is better than using a separate water fountain?

 

Well, gang rape was still a problem during apartheid too.

South Africa has had a long and bloody history.

 

Oh yeah because apartheid was all about being able to use a water fountain. It was not about dehumanising the whole coloured population.

 

sorry, i can't think of anything more dehumanizing than being gang raped and having video of it spread over the country.

 

That's absolutely disgusting.

I hope they catch the lot of them. It's even more atrocious considering the girls altered mental status. I hope they have laws in place that ensure a more severe punishment for those who commit crimes against an individual with a mental disability.

 

And I suppose two men getting married and having children is?!?!?!

 

How about getting your hands chopped off for not meeting work deadlines or having your balls cut off for disagreeing with european Leopolds sadistic forms of discipline, then having the pictures plastered all over the internet.

 

Comparatively, yes. Assuming neither male has paedophiliac tendencies, their kids have a better shot at life and happiness than the poor gang-rape victim does now.

 

Negroes.

Negroes don't fit in a modern urban civilization.

 

Western culture is not, under any stretch of the imagination, civilized. Understand this most basic fact.

 

So you do not think that treating the whole coloured population of a country like slaves is not as bad as gang rape? You are either form the deep south of America or very confused.

 

Not to mention that, under apartheid, it wasn't even a crime to rape or gang rape a woman or a schoolgirl if the rapists were white and the woman was black. And EVERYONE knew about it, the rapists didn't bother to hide it.

They were the white gods. No black man could stand against the whites for raping his wife or daughter without being tortured and murdered himself.

 

Heil Hitler !!!!

 

Ironic coming from someone whose countrymen sexually assaulted a lone female journalist and of the over two hundred attackers not one has been arrested.

 

That is not irony.

 

Well yeah... What the hell does gay marriage have to do with this? Are you some religious nutjob?

 

We were talking civilized behaviour, it's got nothing to do with you, obviously.

 

Being gay is just as civilized as being straight. What's your problem?

 

Whatever you say bud, whatever you say.

 

Hell they dehumanize themselves. What we consider modern Africa is a pool of crap. The only civilized Africans are the ones who live off of the land.