WA: Five teens, two adults charged with pack rape
By Selina Day
PERTH, Aug 12 AAP - Five teenagers as young as 13, and two men have been charged withthe pack rape of a 25-year-old woman during an almost five-hour ordeal in remote WesternAustralia.
The woman was flown to hospital at Derby after suffering life-threatening injuriesin the attack two weeks ago at Halls Creek - which a senior WA police officer has describedas the worst he had seen in more than 20 years.
Police said the woman left the Kimberley Hotel at Halls Creek, after drinking there,about 10.30pm on July 30.
As she walked towards the hotel carpark she was approached by two men, who pushed herto the ground before sexually assaulting her, Kununurra police said today.
The men, and a group of youths who appeared, then forced the woman into vacant bushlanda few hundred metres from the hotel where she was gang raped over several hours.
She managed to get to a women's refuge, about 400 metres away, about 3.30am on July 31.
A night nurse found her with severe injuries and took her to Halls Creek District Hospital,from where she was taken by the Royal Flying Doctor Service to Derby Regional Hospital.
Police said today the juveniles were aged between 13 and 15 and the two men were 21 and 22.
Kununurra officer in charge, Ashley Goy, a police officer for 20 years, said: "It'sthe most vicious and degrading case of rape I've encountered in all my years of service".
One juvenile has been charged with aggravated sexual penetration, deprivation of liberty,aggravated indecent assault and grievous bodily harm.
The four other youths have been charged with aggravated indecent assault and grievousbodily harm, and the adults have been charged with aggravated sexual penetration and deprivationof liberty.
All will appear in courts at Halls Creek tomorrow.
Police inquiries are continuing.
AAP sd/cjh/de
KEYWORD: PACK
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