A 13 year old girl walking home alone from school on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn was kidnapped and raped by three young men and a teenage girl in a van. The four youths tried to recruit the girl as a prostitute. They forced her inside the vehicle, demanding she work for them as a hooker. The girl refused their demands and they drove off before several of them raped and assaulted her in the vehicle. The victim managed to escape and provided cops with details of the crime, leading to the arrests of Tyrell Averhart, 22, and Christina Pratt, 17. Two others were at large.
Averhart and Pratt was arraigned yesterday on charges of abducting the girl and viciously sodomizing and raping her during the horrifying two-hour attack. They pleaded not guilty to rape, unlawful imprisonment, endangering the welfare of a child and other charges.
(New York)