This Is One of the Most Disturbing Reports You'll Ever Read: A Teenage Squabble Leading to a 14-Year-Old Girl Being Raped by a Braying Pack of Nine Youths. Just Another Victim of the Gang Culture Poisoning Our Inner Cities

Daily Mail › December 10, 2008

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AS SIX teenagers are questioned over the shocking murder of 50- year-old widower Aidan O'Kane in Dublin's north inner city, it is becoming clearer that violence among children is escalating rapidly. With ready access to guns and drugs and without parental supervision, their capacity for ruthlessness and recklessness is alarming. In another chilling case, this time in a deprived areas of east London, nine schoolboys, some as young as 13, were sentenced on Monday for the vicious and senseless gang-rape of a 14-year-old girl. After this week it seems prudent to ask, could such a crime be committed here?

SHE WAS chatting to her cousin on her mobile phone when she turned into her street. Her front door was in sight. There was going to be a barbecue and her mother had told the 14-year-old girl, whom we shall call Jenny, not to be late.

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This Is One of the Most Disturbing Reports You'll Ever Read: A Teenage Squabble Leading to a 14-Year-Old Girl Being Raped by a Braying Pack of Nine Youths. Just Another Victim of the Gang Culture Poisoning Our Inner Cities

Suddenly, however, Jenny saw four boys walking towards her, blocking her path. 'Oi, come here,' one of them snapped.

The voice, she realised, belonged to someone she knew. O'Neil Denton, also 14, was tall for his age, more than 6ft. His nickname was Hitman. Jenny is barely 5ft 5in. Her hair was in a ponytail.

Denton liked the odds. Four of them against one girl. Soon four would become nine. There was a scuffle and shouting. 'Are you OK, are you OK?' Jenny's increasingly worried cousin kept asking down the phone when she overheard shouting ...

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