22 MAR

Chicago teen reportedly gang-raped as 40 people watched on Facebook Live

A 15-year-old girl in Chicago was reportedly recently sexually assaulted by “five or six men or boys on Facebook Live,” according to the Associated Press.

This is the second such reported attack in Chicago that was broadcast on Facebook this year alone. In January, four teens were arrested in connection to a torture video. The Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday that this attack marks “at least the fourth Chicago crime caught on Facebook Live since the end of last October.”

Tuesday afternoon, Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman, tweeted that the new investigation was moving forward.

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