AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2009
Vic: Three teens hand themselves in over alleged rapes
By Edwina Scott
MELBOURNE, Dec 3 AAP - Police are calling for more education about sexual consent following
a rise in assaults among young people, including an alleged pack-rape of two teenage girls.
Three Melbourne teenagers handed themselves in to police following a public appeal
to track down members of a gang who allegedly raped the girls on the evening of October
24.
The girls were allegedly targeted by a group of up to 10 men unknown to them at the
Broadmeadows railway station, northwest of Melbourne, before being separated and viciously
assaulted at a park in a nearby suburb.
The youths - two 16-year-olds and one 15-year-old - fronted local police stations on
Thursday morning before they were taken to St Kilda Road headquarters for interviews with
detectives from the sexual crime squad.
Detective Inspector Glenn Davies said the result came after a public appeal to find
the alleged rapists.
But he stressed police were still hunting several other people believed to have participated
in the assaults and were keen to speak with any witnesses.
Police have obtained CCTV footage of some youths believed to be associated with the attacks.
The assaults - which appear to have been planned - and the ages of those involved are
"very concerning", Det Insp Davies said.
"We'd like to get the message out to young people that they need to be very careful
with issues of consent.
"There has been an increase in sexual assaults involving young people, both young people
as victims and young people as offenders."
While parents and teachers need to educate youths about the seriousness of sexual offences,
it is ultimately offenders who must change their behaviour, he said.
"People should have the right in the community to walk around without being attacked."
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