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First, 25 youths ranging in age from 12 to 27 gang-raped a 13-year-old mentally disabled girl in Georgia. The assaults, which took place over six hours following a high school football game in an impoverished Atlanta neighborhood, happened in two abandoned apartments in the same complex, and were videotaped by participants...
...same day that police drew blood from suspects in the Atlanta rapes for DNA tests, news emerged of a similar gang rape in Berkeley, Calif., involving a mentally disabled 12-year-old girl and boys age 11 to 16. The girl was held down by the boys, who raped her in eleven different locations over the course of an afternoon...
While triumph is part of our history, so too is the economic and social conditions that fostered the brutal gang rape of two mentally retarded children...
...escapees are now called the Connally Seven, after the John Connally maximum-security prison 60 miles southeast of San Antonio, Texas, they so brazenly broke out of on Dec. 13. But they might just as well be called the Rivas Gang, to give credit where credit is due. Most law-enforcement officers believe George Rivas, 30, is not only the first among the seven, but also the brains behind the entire operation--smart enough to begin plotting the escape six months in advance and smart enough to ingratiate himself and his trusted companions into the right work duty...
...take-charge actions (see box). "He's very inventive, smart and loves to be a hotshot," says Coons. "This wouldn't have happened without George Rivas." In 1994 Coons concluded that "Rivas will continue his criminal career while in the penitentiary. It is likely he will be involved in gang activities and will be a leader." That testimony was instrumental in persuading the judge to sentence Rivas to 17 consecutive, rather than concurrent, life sentences. Says Coons: "This is the kind of person who might take a hurt bird to the hospital and would never hurt Granny unless she said...