10 people witness rape and do nothing.

It's sad that none of these people felt compelled to call the police, this story is indicative of what society has become. Cold and uncaring.

Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/ ... ME_3200634

Article: ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 24, 2007
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"(The video) shows one person looking out of her door probably three times. It shows another person walking up, observing what's going on, then turning and putting up the hood of his sweatshirt."

(AP) A security video from an apartment hallway shows at least 10 witnesses ignored a woman's cries for help for more than an hour as a man beat and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors in Minnesota said.

The surveillance video clearly showed men and women looking out their apartment doors or starting to walk down the hallway before retreating as the woman was assaulted for nearly 90 minutes, police spokesman Tom Walsh said.

Police said they responded to a call of drunken behavior and found Somali immigrant Rage Ibrahim, 25, and a woman lying unconscious in the hallway early Tuesday. The woman's clothing had been pulled up and she had fresh scratches on her face and blood on her thigh, according to the criminal complaint.

Ibrahim says he is innocent and that the incident was a misunderstanding, according to Omar Jamal, the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, who spoke on Ibrahim's behalf.

Ibrahim was charged with several counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, prosecutors said.

Walsh said police were shocked by the behavior of the bystanders.

"(The video) shows one person looking out of her door probably three times," Walsh said. "It shows another person walking up, observing what's going on, then turning and putting up the hood of his sweatshirt."

At one point, the 26-year-old woman knocked on a door, yelling for the occupants to call police. A man inside that apartment told police he did not open the door or look out, but said he did call police — although they have no record of his call, according to court documents.

Minnesota law makes it a petty misdemeanor to not give reasonable help to a person in danger of "grave physical harm."

Walsh said it is unlikely police would pursue charges against witnesses in this case because authorities would have to show that witnesses knew the woman was in extreme danger.

Jamal said Ibrahim went into the hallway after the woman because he thought she was too drunk to drive. They struggled over car keys, and "he is saying there was a huge misunderstanding," Jamal said, adding that the police report does not show "the truth of what happened that night."

"He did not rape her," Jamal said.

What the fuck is the matter with people. :evil:

Very sad and tragic, but this isn't a new phenomenon.

It's been happening for decades.

Really did immigrant rapist have special organizations that ran to their aide when they raped women 20 years ago? Nope. Sadly this guy will be made to look like a victim and the real victim will get lost in the system. Multicult is such an ugly thing exspecially for us females. But hay he has a special organization that's funded to take care of his every need. Why in gods name would they need a Somali Justice Advocacy Center? Yep minority rights supercede the majority in a multicultural society.

Oh, I see. This is an immigrant-bashing thread.

Carry on, then. :roll:

That's insane... how could this happen. How could these people not react and call police? If they were to afraid to confront the man or personally help her why not call police? i don't understand.

What "misunderstanding" ends in a woman lying unconscious in the hallway with her clothing pulled up, fresh scratches on her face and blood on her thigh?

The other day i heard some children outside "playing". It started to get loud and i could distinctly hear a girl start screaming. i listened for a few seconds and then i heard her scream "FIRE" ... i ran to the balcony to see wehat was wrong. i remember that in school they taught us to scream FIRE if we were in danger because people tend to react to that. i saw them but saw nothing wrong so i called out. They were just screwing around i guess seeing how many people would react to the scream of FIRE. i admit, it scared me but not enough to help.

I don't think it is an immigrant bashing thread at all. I think she quite rightly pointed out, 20 years ago he would have stood trial as a Canadian citizen that broke the law. Now he will be seen as a Somali being persecuted by the Canadian justice system because in his culture he did nothing wrong. Yeah, just one big misunderstanding :roll:

I think people here need to take an intro psychology course. It's actually fairly common, not because those people who didn't help are evil or bad, but because responsibility got diluted in the group. Streaker's link to the Kitty Genovese murder is the landmark example of how this occurs. It's simple psychology people and has nothing to do with immigrants or morality.

The people who saw what was going on and did nothing, could they be just as guilty as the person who committed the rape?

The same thing happened in Coquitlam a few years ago. I still spit on the sidewalk whenever I'm in that town in memory of that poor girl--Brianna was her name. Twice he raped her (with a break in between) as she screamed and screamed and screamed, just a few feet away from a residential neighbourhood. Then he strangled her. The neighbours just shut their windows. I hope those bastards hear her pleas for help every single night when they go to sleep for the rest of their lives--and then they keep hearing it in Hell.