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Last updated Nov 15 2005 08:14 AM EST
CBC News
A group of teenagers were to make their first court appearance on Tuesday on various charges ranging from sexual assault to threatening after a 16-year-old girl was allegedly abused for more than a year.
The accused (12 boys, charged with criminal harassment, and two girls, charged with threatening bodily harm), are all students at James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School in the Keele Street and Finch Ave. W. area.
They cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Two other boys were arrested last week: a 17-year-old charged with assault, sexual assault, forcible confinement and failure to comply with probation and a 15-year-old, charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement and criminal harassment.
The girl told police that beginning last September, a group of classmates ganged up on her, and that she was attacked in a stairwell on Oct. 17 and sexually assaulted both there and later in the school bathroom. She also alleges an approach for sexual favours by a suspect at a local fast-food restaurant in September.
Insp. Tom McIlhone, of Toronto Police, would not elaborate on the charges, except to say, "We're not going to lay charges like this with minimal information, with minimal investigation. Suffice it to say we believe the victim."
Mary Jo Deighan of the Toronto District School Board admitted to concern that the incident didn't come to light earlier, but "we certainly understand why the alleged victim didn't come forward sooner." Police say threats kept the girl silent, and for her safety she is no longer at the school. But she plans to return to class as soon as she can.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net