Youths who gang-raped girl in stairwells are named

Timesonline.co.uk ^ | December 6, 2008 | Adam Fresco

[forkinsocket]

Seven schoolboys aged as young as 13 who joked as they took turns to rape a 14-year-old girl because she “disrespected” a gang member can be identified today for the first time.

The girl was subjected to an ordeal lasting several hours in stairwells around a housing estate in East London, parts of which were filmed on mobile phones.

O’Neil Denton, known as Hitman by the Kingshold Boys gang, now aged 16, ordered his friends to snatch the girl from the streets of Hackney after she was said to have insulted him. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was attacked while walking home from school in April last year.

After being disturbed, Denton and some of the group took their victim to another stairwell where she was forced to commit a sex act at knifepoint. The boys rang friends during the attack, and a crowd began to gather, including Weiled Ibrahim, now aged 17, Jayden Ryan, Yusuf Raymond, and Jack Bartle, aged 16, and Alexander Vanderpuije and Cleon Brown, both 15. The final, and worst, assault took place on the ninth floor of another block of flats where the girl was raped repeatedly during a 50-minute ordeal. When she tried to fight back, junior members of the gang kicked her and smashed her head against a wall.

Nicola Merrick, for the prosecution, said: “The victim knew, of course, she was going to be raped again. She could hear Ibrahim and others saying there were other boys who would rape her badly.”

Eventually 15 boys assembled on the stairwell. “The boys threatened her throughout, intimidating her and physically assaulting her. Ibraham slapped her face and pulled her hair whilst another banged her head against the wall and someone threw a bottle of water at her.

[whd23]

Oh c'mon.

Denton, Ryan, Bartle, Vanderpuije, and Brown.

[Tamar1973]

There are those, even on this forum, who would add to her already lengthy list of woes, carrying the spawn of these hoodlums for nine months, and giving birth to a child whose father would be either unknown or if identified, a worthless POS, take your pick.

There is nothing which justifies terminating a life. It is not the unborn child's fault that their father was a monster or their mother a rape victim. The only thing aborting such a child would do is create 2 victims where there had been 1.

[Badeye]

Easy pronouncement when you aren’t the one carrying the rapists baby.

[Tamar1973]

I was a victim of sexual abuse as a little child so please don’t get self righteous with me. A life is a life, period.

[Badeye]

Don’t care about your personal issues, and your the one being oh so self righteous.

Its easy to make that ‘call’ when it isn’t your kid knocked up by a rapist.

[Tamar1973]

So kill the innocent baby?!? Aborting the baby would be far more of a scar than giving birth to it and giving it up for adoption. I’m glad you aren’t my parent.

[Mr. Lucky]

Thank God the girl didn’t live in a country where individuals can own firearms. She could have hurt someone.

[Badeye]

Its so easy when you aren’t the one pregnant with the rapists child.

We understand each others viewpoint, no need to continue.

[Travis T. OJustice]

I pray to God that decision never falls upon anyone in my family or anyone I know.

[Thumper1960]

You'll stop this sort of madness when the perpetrators are executed, along with their immediate family members.

If the fear of prosecution and punishment doesn't faze the barbarians, perhaps their families, facing the same fates, would be motivated to deal with their rancid offspring.

[Mr. Lucky]

Thank God the girl didn’t live in a country where individuals can own firearms. She could have hurt someone.

[Badeye]

We both agree on that one.

[dayglored]

> It is not the unborn child's fault that their father was a monster or their mother a rape victim. The only thing aborting such a child would do is create 2 victims where there had been 1.

I tend to agree with your view there. Note that I did not argue for her to have an abortion if pregnant.

My belief that all life is sacred, and my belief that human life begins at conception, informs my opinions about abortion.

My belief in the right of all people to freedom and self-determination informs my opinion about the proper extent of the law as it applies to the actions of free people.

Abortion, as a legal and social issue, is exceedingly complex and reasonable people will disagree.

Abortion, as a personal, moral, ethical issue, is to me perfectly clear. It is the killing of a human being, whether that is nine months or one day after conception, and all other considerations must acknowledge that simple fact.