Five young men rape girl, circulate MMS

September 2nd, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Prompt police action foiled an attempt to abduct and rape a 14-year-old girl here Wednesday, officials said. The girl, a student of Class 9, was on her way home after school hours Wednesday afternoon when a man named Javed Khan, 21, offered to drop her home.

August 29th, 2009 Audio of 911 call in Liberian rape case releasedPHOENIX — Police have released a recording of a 911 call in the case of an 8-year-old Liberian girl allegedly raped by four boys last month. In the five-minute call, the manager of a Phoenix building complex tells the dispatcher that a resident says a teenage boy locked the girl in a vacant apartment and had her screaming.

August 10th, 2009 Liberian official meets with young rape victimPHOENIX —Liberia's deputy ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday that he tried to console an 8-year-old rape victim in Phoenix with hugs and a teddy bear in a case that has gripped Liberians worldwide.

August 1st, 2009 Teen indicted in rape of 8-year-old in PhoenixPHOENIX — A 14-year-old Liberian refugee has been indicted in connection with the rape of an 8-year-old girl at a Phoenix apartment complex. Police say four boys, also from Liberia, lured the girl to an empty storage shed July 16 with the promise of chewing gum.

July 27th, 2009 Beaten child-rape suspect has mental-health issuePHILADELPHIA — A child-rape suspect beaten by an angry Philadelphia mob last month says he has mental-health issues. Jose Carrasquillo disclosed the diagnosis before waiving a preliminary hearing Monday on charges he violently assaulted an 11-year-old schoolgirl.

July 15th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - A hospital here was attacked by family members of a young woman patient who alleged that a ward boy and a doctor tried to rape her and its owner ordered her to keep quiet about it. The young woman is an engineering student who was hospitalised Tuesday after she tried to commit suicide after failing in an examination.

June 29th, 2009 Mass man held in girl's kidnapping, attempted rapeHANOVER, Mass. — Prosecutors say a Massachusetts man lured a 6-year-old girl to an apartment, restrained her and injected her with an unknown substance intending to rape her, but instead freed her and slashed his own wrist.

June 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A 15-year-old Dalit girl was burnt to death by two young men after she resisted a rape attempt in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said Saturday. Pinki, a resident of Kacchigarhi village in Muzaffarnagar, 350 km from state capital Lucknow, was set on fire by her neighbours Pramod and Praveen, in their early 20s, after they failed to rape her Thursday.

June 24th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - An autopsy report Wednesday confirmed rape on a 16-year-old domestic help who allegedly committed suicide a day earlier by jumping off the ninth floor of an apartment block here, police said. Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar said the autopsy report established there were injuries and swelling on the private parts of the victim.

June 15th, 2009 SURAT - The Surat Police Monday asked owners of private coaching institutes and individual tutors in the city not to hold classes before 7 a.m. The move comes following the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl who was on her way to a tution class at 5.30 a.m.

June 14th, 2009 SURAT - A day after an enraged mob attacked three men accused of rape, two of whom are sons of policemen, the Gujarat government ordered Sunday that the men would be tried in a fast track court. The men, Shahid Saiyad, Tariq Saiyad - both sons of policemen posted in Surat - and Abu Bakr Sheikh, are accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in a moving car June 12 and video filming the act.

June 4th, 2009 Philly man beaten over rape released from hospitalPHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia man wanted for questioning in the rape of an 11-year-old girl has been released from the hospital two days after being beaten by an angry mob. Authorities say Jose Carrasquillo (kayr-uhs-KEE'-oh) is in police custody.

June 3rd, 2009 'Person of interest' in child rape beaten by mobPHILADELPHIA — An angry mob beat a man described by Philadelphia police as a person of interest in the rape of an 11-year-old girl on Tuesday after neighborhood residents recognized him from a photo distributed by police. "We were all standing on the corner and we saw him coming down the street.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A two-year-old girl was raped by a neighbour in Najafgarh area of southwest Delhi, police said Wednesday. Police have arrested Bunty, 25, on charges of raping the girl at his New Roshan Pura home Tuesday.

April 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - Two of the absconding accused in the TISS rape case were nabbed by the Mumbai police on Friday. The two accused-Hershverdhan and J S Bhullar-had reportedly escaped to Jamshedpur after the incident.