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Police Say Dozen People Watched Calif. Gang Rape:

Police: As many as 20 present at gang rape outside school dance:

Reason to Blow Up the World...

Investigators say as many as 20 people were involved in or stood and watched the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance Saturday night.

Police posted a $20,000 reward Tuesday for anyone who comes to them with information that helps arrest and convict those involved in what authorities describe as a 2½-hour assault on the Richmond High School campus in suburban San Francisco.

Two teenage suspects have been jailed, but more arrests, as many as 20 total, are expected, according to a police detective.

As many as 10 people were involved in the assault in a dimly lighted back alley at the school, while another 10 people watched without calling 911 to report it, police said.

A 1999 California law makes it illegal not to report a witnessed crime against a child, but the law applies only to children 14 and under.

"We do not have the ability to arrest people who witnessed the crime and did nothing," Gagan said. "The law can be very rigid. We don't have the authority to make an arrest."

The victim was found unconscious under a bench shortly before midnight Saturday, after police received a call from someone in the area who had overheard people at the assault scene "reminiscing about the incident," Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan said.

The girl was flown by helicopter to a hospital where she was admitted in critical condition. She was in stable condition Tuesday, police said.

Nineteen-year-old Manuel Ortega, described as a former student at the school, was arrested soon after he fled the scene and will face charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping, police said.

A 15-year-old was later arrested and charged with one count of felony sexual assault. A third teenager was being interviewed, Gagan said.

"Based on witness statements and suspect statements, and also physical evidence, we know that she was raped by at least four suspects committing multiple sex acts," Gagan said.

"As people announced over time that this was going on, more people came to see, and some actually participated," Gagan said.

The attack occurred on school grounds as the annual homecoming dance was under way inside the school Saturday night, authorities said.

More details of the attack...

Police said the girl left the dance and was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group drinking in the courtyard. The victim had drank a large amount of alcohol by the time the assault began, police said. Officers received a tip about a possible assault on campus and found the girl semi-conscious near a picnic table.

And to make it even worse a 21-year-old alleged man was also arrested along with a 16-year-old.

20 points for the amount of scumbags that were involved in one way or another, another point for the fact that the witnesses who stood by and did nothing can't be arrested, 3 points for the 2 1/2 hours she was raped (I like to round up), one point for the fact that some people think gang rape is a spectator sport, another point for the fact that alleged adults took part in this, another point for beating the girl, another point for robbing the girl, and one last point for putting the girl in critical condition. That's 29.

There is no hope for humanity.

Nods of Doom to Rob Taylor, Meggan, and the Mayor Of Concord.