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This is kind of long but interesting. I wonder if the women down there would like to have some way of defending themselves?
70 [White]girls attacked by [Asian]rape gangs
By John Kidman, Police Reporter
POLICE examining more than 20 brutal sexual attacks on
teenaged girls in just 10 months believe they have
uncovered a frightening new crime associated with race.
Hospital records and police data show that at least
another 50 similar incidents have been reported in the
Bankstown area of south-west Sydney over the past two
years.
The victims, one as young as 13, were allegedly lured to
meetings then gang raped and horrifically humiliated.
All of those suspected of perpetrating the acts come from
the same cultural and religious backgrounds.
Now police are concerned that the acts may become
culturally institutionalised.
They are now planning a social research program to
examine the phenomenon and help them decide how to
eradicate it.
Fifteen youths and men have so far been charged with more
than 300 offences relating to matters since mid-2000
alone.
They are all of Middle Eastern extraction. None of those
involved is presently before the courts.
Their alleged victims have all been Caucasian, aged
between 13 and 18.
The attacks are continuing.
In the most recent, up to two dozen offenders are
suspected of taking part in the repeated violation of a
teenager in a school yard at Guildford three weeks ago.
In a chilling postscript, several of the group allegedly
scrawled degrading slogans on her body.
Before being brutalised, other victims have reportedly
been questioned about their Australian heritage or forced
to endure taunts about their attackers' prowess.
Last August, an 18-year-old woman was allegedly raped 15
times by 14 youths who passed her from one group of mates
to the next after she was coerced from a train at
Bankstown station.
Allegedly assaulted in turn by four of the pack in a
toilet, the woman was driven to further local locations,
raped again and again and, as a final act of humiliation,
sprayed down with a hose.
Another victim was, the same month, dragged by the hair
to a secluded park, stripped and held to the ground
behind a shed, where she was allegedly defiled.
In response to what was then thought to be an isolated
rampage involving several groups of males, Detective
Inspector Kim McKay was appointed to head Strike Force
Sayda, which was given the task of halting it.
As Sydney struggled to cope with the Olympics, 12 of the
most experienced officers available were drawn from
Bankstown and Crime Agencies.
They had identified a nucleus of six to eight suspects
who lived within a kilometre of each other, and as many
again who were at least loosely connected socially.
In tandem with a public appeal by then-Crime Agencies
commander Clive Small for women to take sensible
precautions, a string of arrests were made and at
Christmas, Sayda began focusing on preparing briefs of
evidence for the courts.
In total, the strike force identified 17 sex attacks on
20 teenagers.
It laid charges in relation to eight of the matters and
10 of the alleged victims.
What emerged in the following months, however, was the
grim reality that the problem hadn't gone away.
A 16-year-old girl was savagely assaulted by at least a
dozen males in Bankstown's Memorial Park on February 10.
Drugged, severely traumatised and abandoned, she was
found by her distraught father after failing to make it
home the night before.
A separate investigation was launched by another Crime
Agencies branch, the Child Protection Enforcement Agency,
which identified a cousin of a suspect in an earlier
known assault from a DNA sample at the scene.
Police believed the match suggested that what they were
dealing with was bigger than the work of several
semi-affiliated groups but still able to be linked.
Although under legal and professional pressure not to
discuss Sayda's work in detail, Inspector McKay issued a
second warning to the community on March 11.
Other officers made the point that those allegedly
responsible for the Sayda rapes were said to have been
expert at "luring" girls into compromising
situations by using flattery, appearing to be the friend
of a friend or offering to buy coffee or drinks.
Unfortunately, the public didn't take heed.
On the night of Wednesday, May 9, two girls were dragged
into a car on Parramatta Road at Camperdown.
Refusing the initial offer of a lift, they shared
cigarettes with the two men they'd just met before
walking towards their bus stop but never made it.
Both were driven to Homebush, violently assaulted and
dumped.
In the wake of the last known assault, at Guildford on
July 7, senior police this week conceded they were at a
loss about how to prevent more attacks.
According to one officer who spoke to The Sun-Herald,
they were now dealing with an average of at least one
Sayda-type incident every month.
As a result, moves are under way to commission expert
social research into the problem.
The concerns come in the wake of controversy over Police
Commissioner Peter Ryan's claim that crime is falling and
previous remarks he made about ethnic gangs, which led to
accusations of US-style racial profiling.
Police have been hampered because in several cases -
including some reported by a local hospital - the women
have been unwilling to assist them out of embarrassment
or fear of reprisals.
And some were simply too traumatised to help.
The Sun-Herald
70 [White]girls attacked by [Asian]rape gangs
By John Kidman, Police Reporter
POLICE examining more than 20 brutal sexual attacks on
teenaged girls in just 10 months believe they have
uncovered a frightening new crime associated with race.
Hospital records and police data show that at least
another 50 similar incidents have been reported in the
Bankstown area of south-west Sydney over the past two
years.
The victims, one as young as 13, were allegedly lured to
meetings then gang raped and horrifically humiliated.
All of those suspected of perpetrating the acts come from
the same cultural and religious backgrounds.
Now police are concerned that the acts may become
culturally institutionalised.
They are now planning a social research program to
examine the phenomenon and help them decide how to
eradicate it.
Fifteen youths and men have so far been charged with more
than 300 offences relating to matters since mid-2000
alone.
They are all of Middle Eastern extraction. None of those
involved is presently before the courts.
Their alleged victims have all been Caucasian, aged
between 13 and 18.
The attacks are continuing.
In the most recent, up to two dozen offenders are
suspected of taking part in the repeated violation of a
teenager in a school yard at Guildford three weeks ago.
In a chilling postscript, several of the group allegedly
scrawled degrading slogans on her body.
Before being brutalised, other victims have reportedly
been questioned about their Australian heritage or forced
to endure taunts about their attackers' prowess.
Last August, an 18-year-old woman was allegedly raped 15
times by 14 youths who passed her from one group of mates
to the next after she was coerced from a train at
Bankstown station.
Allegedly assaulted in turn by four of the pack in a
toilet, the woman was driven to further local locations,
raped again and again and, as a final act of humiliation,
sprayed down with a hose.
Another victim was, the same month, dragged by the hair
to a secluded park, stripped and held to the ground
behind a shed, where she was allegedly defiled.
In response to what was then thought to be an isolated
rampage involving several groups of males, Detective
Inspector Kim McKay was appointed to head Strike Force
Sayda, which was given the task of halting it.
As Sydney struggled to cope with the Olympics, 12 of the
most experienced officers available were drawn from
Bankstown and Crime Agencies.
They had identified a nucleus of six to eight suspects
who lived within a kilometre of each other, and as many
again who were at least loosely connected socially.
In tandem with a public appeal by then-Crime Agencies
commander Clive Small for women to take sensible
precautions, a string of arrests were made and at
Christmas, Sayda began focusing on preparing briefs of
evidence for the courts.
In total, the strike force identified 17 sex attacks on
20 teenagers.
It laid charges in relation to eight of the matters and
10 of the alleged victims.
What emerged in the following months, however, was the
grim reality that the problem hadn't gone away.
A 16-year-old girl was savagely assaulted by at least a
dozen males in Bankstown's Memorial Park on February 10.
Drugged, severely traumatised and abandoned, she was
found by her distraught father after failing to make it
home the night before.
A separate investigation was launched by another Crime
Agencies branch, the Child Protection Enforcement Agency,
which identified a cousin of a suspect in an earlier
known assault from a DNA sample at the scene.
Police believed the match suggested that what they were
dealing with was bigger than the work of several
semi-affiliated groups but still able to be linked.
Although under legal and professional pressure not to
discuss Sayda's work in detail, Inspector McKay issued a
second warning to the community on March 11.
Other officers made the point that those allegedly
responsible for the Sayda rapes were said to have been
expert at "luring" girls into compromising
situations by using flattery, appearing to be the friend
of a friend or offering to buy coffee or drinks.
Unfortunately, the public didn't take heed.
On the night of Wednesday, May 9, two girls were dragged
into a car on Parramatta Road at Camperdown.
Refusing the initial offer of a lift, they shared
cigarettes with the two men they'd just met before
walking towards their bus stop but never made it.
Both were driven to Homebush, violently assaulted and
dumped.
In the wake of the last known assault, at Guildford on
July 7, senior police this week conceded they were at a
loss about how to prevent more attacks.
According to one officer who spoke to The Sun-Herald,
they were now dealing with an average of at least one
Sayda-type incident every month.
As a result, moves are under way to commission expert
social research into the problem.
The concerns come in the wake of controversy over Police
Commissioner Peter Ryan's claim that crime is falling and
previous remarks he made about ethnic gangs, which led to
accusations of US-style racial profiling.
Police have been hampered because in several cases -
including some reported by a local hospital - the women
have been unwilling to assist them out of embarrassment
or fear of reprisals.
And some were simply too traumatised to help.
The Sun-Herald
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