Police in the Middle East country of Israel have arrested two of the 30 people accused of allegedly gang-raping a teenage girl.
The Israeli newspaper Times of Israel quoted local news channels as saying that a few days ago, a 16-year-old girl had lodged a gang-rape complaint with the Ashkelon city police.
The young girl told police that a month ago, she and her boyfriend went on holiday to the town of Eilat on the shores of the Gulf of Aqaba, where they happened to meet their boyfriend's friends.
According to the girl, after the meeting at the hotel, she and all her friends went out for drinking and on their return, everyone in the hotel gang-raped her.
Following the girl's complaint, police arrested a 27-year-old suspect three days ago, and the next day another suspect was arrested.
The report said that the suspects told the police that although it was true that 30 people had sex with a teenage girl, it was wrong that they were gang-raped. One of the suspects told the police that Contrary to the girl's claim, the CCTV camera videos of the said hotel show that the whole affair took place with the consent of the girl.
The accused told the police that after drinking alcohol, the girl called all 30 people into the room in a drunken and merry manner and all of them were standing in a line outside their hotel room.
According to the report, the girl's friend wanted to help her in this process but he was helpless. According to the report, the police arrested the two accused on charges of rape and took them into their custody. Scale investigation launched.
News of a teenage girl being 'gang-raped' has sparked outrage across Israel, and voices are once again being raised in the country against the sexual exploitation of underage and young girls.
Israel is one of the countries in the world with the highest incidence of 'gang rape' or gang rape of school-going girls or girls their age.
In Israel, 9 out of 10 rape and sexual exploitation cases are closed without prosecution.
In Israel in 2018 alone, police investigated more than 6,220 allegations of rape, sexual exploitation, sexual assault and sex, but in most of these cases the cases were closed without conviction.
The past few years have seen an increase in rapes and 'gang rapes' of young girls in Israel, especially with girls between the ages of 12 and 18, in hotels and places of entertainment, including in schools and other educational institutions....
