I know it's a stretch, but couldn't they also be charged with something close to child pornography? Cause I mean the girl was 15, and even though you aren't watching it through a TV/computer screen, it is pretty much the same thing. Especially if there was that big an age difference (like someone mentioned one man was 32).

I think if they filmed it and it was distributable, yes.

Not sure if watching a live sex act (no matter how heinous) is 'porn'.

Most, if not of those laws require that the act be stored on some sort of recording medium. Also, some states have wonky definitions of who is a child and who is not.

lol @ "wonky"

It's interesting that sex acts aren't considered porn unless they're recorded somehow. I guess I never really thought much about the definition of porn.

The rapists need to suffer for the acts they committed. The other 15 people who watched should be persecuted. They may not be able to put them on trial, but there is always the trial of public opnion. They should suffer at the very least extreme public embarassment for watching this happen.

I do not agree that the students should not be allowed to have social functions. The kids who were inside the dance behaving shouldn't have to pay for the actions of these arseholes. They should also put much more money in to security.

What a terrible idea -- opening a criminal prosecution just to torment someone who is guilty of no crime, especially when the prosecutor knows for a fact they're not guilty. If that indeed happened, the prosecutor ought to lose her law license.

Sometimes the justice system doesn't produce just results. You can't play CalvinBall with the criminal justice system.

I concur
 

I agree whole heartedly with this, I understand that there are laws put in place and that one must abide by them (ie. children 14 and under) but given the type of crime, the length of time of the crime and how many bystanders there were, surely a good lawyer will find some type of loop whole in past cases won or lost. Its just completely unjust to say that these onlookers are in no way responsible for what happend to that young lady. If it were someone we all knew or were close to, surely we would all see it that way.

I agree. They shouldn't allow them to have any more school dances. That will definitely teach them a lesson.

As someone else said, even if the cops weren't called, someone could have informed a chaperone or something.

Sometimes you have to do extreme things to get the attention of others. That includes punishments that may seep over onto innocent students. But I think this situation is horrible enough to warrant that. Plus, if we are really honest with ourselves, most of the parents probably wouldn't allow their child to go to another school dance at this school.