A teenage girl claims she was gang-raped on a busy Melbourne street by two men she said were her friends.
Key points:The girl, who cannot be named, says she was assaulted by a group of men on the busy street near her home in Melbourne’s west last yearShe said she did not tell anyone and the two men did not report it to police.
The girl said she was sexually assaulted by four men at the same time in the CBD on the night of December 18 last year.
She said the men threatened to rape her, and she said one of the men put a gun to her head and threatened to kill her.
She was able to call police after one of her attackers left her alone and she called a friend to tell her about what had happened.
“I don, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to say that I feel safe at this point,” she said.
“And I have a bit of an emotional reaction and it’s a bit scary and I’m really not sure what to do.”
But I do feel that I’ve got to say something.
I’ve just been through so much and I don, at the end of the day, don’t really know what to say.
“The 16-year-old said she had reported the incident to police but they did not respond to her request.
She has since moved back home to the Sunshine Coast and is working on her degree.
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