Woman Raped as Spring Break Crowd Watched: Cops
2 COLLEGE KIDS CHARGED IN APPALLING FLORIDA ATTACK IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff
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Posted Apr 12, 2015 9:36 AM CDT
(NEWSER) – Two college students have been charged with the gang rape of a woman on a public beach in broad daylight, and Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen tells the Panama City News Herald that hundreds of nearby spring break revelers knew and did absolutely nothing to stop the "most disgusting, sickening thing" he'd ever seen. Delonte' Martistee, 22, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, were charged Friday with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators; both are reportedly students at Alabama's Troy University. The attack allegedly occurred between March 10 and 12 in the beachside city in the Florida Panhandle; it came to light when police investigating a shooting found cell phone footage of the attack, notes the AP.
"This is happening in broad daylight with hundreds of people seeing and hearing what is happening, and they are more concerned about spilling their beer than somebody being raped," said McKeithen. He compared the video—in which men can be seen assaulting an incapacitated woman on a beach chair as exclamations to the effect of "she'll never know" are heard—to "wild animals preying on a carcass laying in the woods." The victim "knows something happened, but she doesn't know what happened," he adds. McKeithen wants to ban booze on the beach and earlier last call times. "It is not safe for our children on the beach. … If you condone this behavior, you should be in jail, as far as I’m concerned. |
