Speaker 1: A note on the text line from Lynn saying, what
Speaker 1: a dreadful story regarding the case involving four teenagers who've
Speaker 1: been charged and something that's happened to a seventeen year
Speaker 1: old girl. It is absolutely horrific. All males aged between
Speaker 1: fourteen and nineteen have been charged with the horror alleged
Speaker 1: assault of a teenage girl. According to police, the attack
Speaker 1: lasted more than six hours. It's happened in Sydney's West
Speaker 1: in December last year. Just after five point thirty pm
Speaker 1: on the fifteenth of December, a seventeen year old girl
Speaker 1: was approached by an unknown male in a shopping center
Speaker 1: in Liverpool. It's alleged the Mail followed her to her
Speaker 1: car and assaulted her. The alleged attacker then asked to
Speaker 1: be driven to a different location. The victim agreed on
Speaker 1: the understanding that he'd get out of the car when
Speaker 1: they got there, but when they arrived at the park,
Speaker 1: two other males allegedly got into the car and sexually
Speaker 1: assaulted the girl. According to police, fourth mail arrived in
Speaker 1: another vehicle and the assault continued as the girl was
Speaker 1: driven around. Just before midnight, the four males left. The
Speaker 1: victim in the car. The seventeen year old then managed
Speaker 1: to contact a friend who took her to Liverpool Police station.
Speaker 1: Following inquiries, two boys were arrested just days after the
Speaker 1: alleged assault. A sixteen year old was charged with twenty
Speaker 1: four offenses a fourteen year old charged with ten offenses.
Speaker 1: Both refused bail and now in the past twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: police have laid more charges. Two more men have been
Speaker 1: charged over the alleged assault. Police have charged an eighteen
Speaker 1: year old man with nine counts of aggravated sexual assault.
Speaker 1: He's been refused bail to appear in the Children's court today.
Speaker 1: Police have also charged a nineteen year old with five
Speaker 1: counts of aggravated sexual assault. He's also been refused bail
Speaker 1: and will appear in court today. Detective Superintendent Jane Doherty
Speaker 1: is the head of the New South Wales Sex Crime
Speaker 1: Squad and she's on the line. Detective Superintendent. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us morning, Ben.
Speaker 2: How are you good.
Speaker 1: It's hard to know what to say about something like this.
Speaker 1: It is just disgusting by the sounds of these allegations.
Speaker 2: That's right, Ben, There aren't words that can just express
Speaker 2: beggars belief. The age of these young males that have
Speaker 2: done this, and when you're aware of the full facts,
Speaker 2: what they've actually done for this poor girl.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me about the support that your officers
Speaker 1: have been able to give this seventeen year old woman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been with her obviously since the first report,
Speaker 2: and we've supported her all the way through. She's a
Speaker 2: brave young girl. The recollection of this incident, you can understand,
Speaker 2: would be traumatic and horrifying to do. But she sat
Speaker 2: with my investigators for hours and gone through what has
Speaker 2: happened to her, which is given as a good basis
Speaker 2: to gather further evidence and to be able to prove
Speaker 2: this matter against these.
Speaker 1: Males we're chadding to detect. Superintendent Jane Doughty, superintended. Is
Speaker 1: it fair to say that the young woman, the alleged victim,
Speaker 1: felt under duress when she was in the vehicle, like
Speaker 1: she was unable to get out of that car.
Speaker 2: That's right, Ben. When she was first approached by the
Speaker 2: sixteen year old, he was friendly and chatty and they
Speaker 2: agreed just to sit and talk. And then things turned
Speaker 2: ugly in the car, obviously, and she was under a
Speaker 2: lot of duress. And then when the further attacks occurred.
Speaker 2: Being a young female surrounded by four males. You can
Speaker 2: only imagine the stress that she was under and the
Speaker 2: fear that she would have had.
Speaker 1: How serious are these allegations in terms of potential jail sentences?
Speaker 2: These are the most serious sexual offenses you can commit
Speaker 2: in company. The degradation and the sexual acts they committed
Speaker 2: on this poor young girl in a pack. It was
Speaker 2: the group of four males acting together against innocent young
Speaker 2: seventeen old. It's horrific. It's even shocked my investigators.
Speaker 1: Has she been able to go back to school or
Speaker 1: go back to study. I mean, I just can't imagine
Speaker 1: how you put your life back together after something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Unfortunately, her life will never be the way it
Speaker 2: was going to be. You know, this is something that
Speaker 2: will be with her forever. Sexual assault is one of
Speaker 2: the things that is carried very, very deeply inside and
Speaker 2: can really affect the rest of your life. She's very lucky.
Speaker 2: She's supported by good family and friends around her, and
Speaker 2: my investigators will be with her the whole way through
Speaker 2: so that we can give her the best chance to
Speaker 2: forge forward on this.
Speaker 1: It sounds like your investigators have done a great job,
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you jumping on the line under
Speaker 1: these circumstances.
Speaker 2: Anytime, Ben, Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Detective Superintendent Jane Dougherty, who's the
Speaker 1: head of the New South Wales Sex Crime Squad, you're
Speaker 1: going to be hearing a lot more about this case
Speaker 1: and as we just heard from Jane Dougherty, the allegation
Speaker 1: is that they acted in a pack. Four males age
Speaker 1: between fourteen and nineteen charged over this horror alleged sexual
Speaker 1: assault of a young woman in Sydney seventeen years of
Speaker 1: age and it allegedly lasted more than six hours. Just
Speaker 1: unspeakable acts based on the allegations in the police brief
Speaker 1: that will go before the courts. You're listening to Ben
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