Dispatches

Read a selection of quotes from Dispatches: Rape in the City. The first three quotes highlight the experiences of gang rape victims, the last quote is from a girl who has witnessed and helped to set up the rape of other girls. The names of all contributers have been changed.

Kerry

'I felt like a rag doll that's the best way just imagine a rag doll and a bunch of kids, you know, everyone's pulling and tagging so the rag doll's kind of in the middle.'

'I remember crying and the tears just running down my face and just trying not to look at any of them and them just doing it like it was okay the way they were so calm about it.'

Emma

'I was bombarded by a whole load of guys... they dragged me into the bush, one of them took my bag, I got slapped a few times and then I got raped.'

'The one thing I definitely do remember and never will forget is the way they kept telling me it's happening to me because I'm ugly if I was pretty like my other friend it wouldn't happen.'

'One of the guys had a knife as well, and he kept flashing it around my face. I just had to keep telling myself it's going to be over soon, and it wasn't going to last for ever, the pain will go away and all of that.'

'And I was like pleading with them, begging for them to just leave me alone and they were just laughing at me, the whole time just laughing.'

Stacey

'They took me into a little corridor thing outside people's houses. They turned off the lights and they left me in there and they held the door so I couldn't get out. Each one of them kept coming in and out by themselves and asking me to do the same thing.'

'I was like really upset now and I said no, no I'm not doing it. He like hit me in my face He like punched me.'

'He pinned me on the floor I had to lay there and he got on top of me and he physically raped me then.'

'And there was, erm, a woman that walked in and I was just sitting there on the floor crying and the woman walked passed me as well and she just looked at me and was like 'tut tut' and then she walked in her house and didn't do nothing.'

Susan (witness to a gang rape)

'You'd see the boys and then you'd see me walking next to them. And if they ever had a problem with a girl they'd call me and I'd be like, yeah, I would come with my girls and I do something to the girl as well. There was a couple of times where I actually set the girl up to get raped.'

'I walked into the wrong room with it and there was just loads of boys and the girl's tights were ripped up, like, she was bleeding as well because I think she was a virgin and they were like just taking turns on her basically and they were all there just waiting and she was like crying and I didn't get involved yeah because I thought if I get involved they're gonna turn on me. And because I don't know them, I just walked away and I didn't say nothing to no one.'