I just figured you were getting all piratey on me .... AAAaaaaaaaaaarrrrrhhhhhh! ;-)
I, too, have lots of similarly-aged kids running around my place, and in the neighborhood. And some of them really can look a lot older than 11. They're good kids, though, and that keeps them "looking their age" -- despite their bodies, not because of them.
That's what's different from the kids we know, and this particular girl. According to the article, she was apparently quite aggressive in wanting to seem older than she really is (as per the woman quoted in the article). And, when you couple a girl like that with a guy who's thinking with his dick, you're bound to have problems.
I have no doubt that she had met, and been having sex with one of those guys for some time... and that her real problem came when he invited 9 of his closest friends over for "some fun."
I feel very sorry for this kid. This kind of activity doesn't start in a vacuum. Her life looks to have been screwed up from the start. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that one or more of her mom's "boyfriends" had been abusing her from an early age.
And I also think the bastards who gang-banged her ought to be put away for a very long time.