Brandon Vandenburg, the tall, heavyset 23 year old on trial, raised his head, while his mother burst into tears. Her son was found guilty on all counts: five of aggravated rape, two of aggravated sexual battery and one of unlawful photography. Her shoulders shook with relief and for the first time in three years of court proceedings, a tentative smile flickered across her face. Sources close to Jane maintain that her life was straightforward up until June
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By Alice Evans For Mailonline. Accused: Rafiullah Hamidy, pictured, is one of four men who denies raping a teenage girl in Ramsgate, Kent. A lost teenage girl was picked up off the street and gang raped in a dirty flat above a kebab shop after asking four men for help, a court heard. The girl, who had asked the men for directions after a night out in Ramsgate, Kent, told the court she did not complain when the men started kissing her because she was afraid they would hit her.
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But as he tossed a mattress on to the ground it was clear that it was no game that he was planning. For the next four hours the girl's mother and younger sisters, aged nine and seven, were forced to chant praises to Robert Mugabe and watch Dora being gang-raped by five "war veterans" and the policeman. When they had finished it hurt so much I couldn't walk. Now in hiding, spending most of her nights in frightened wakefulness, she remembers feeling the rough breath on her face, the hands forcing apart her thighs, and "that animal thing" as she calls it slamming into her underfed body. Dora was raped because her father is a supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. He is not a candidate, not a party official, just a simple carpenter who had mistakenly believed that he lived in a country where he could vote for whom he liked. Dora's story, as she tells it, started with a Land Rover full of war veterans drawing up at the door around 10pm one evening in June, while her father was away, and ended with her left bruised and bleeding at 2.
The girl was semi-conscious, and was soaking wet because her assailants had put her under a shower to wash vomit and menstrual blood off her after they gang-raped her. The ordeal started as a cosy reunion of three high-school girls after the holidays. Boys showed up at the party. Doctors at Shady Grove hospital later found Erin had almost three times the legal limit in her blood. Three teenagers, then aged 16 and 17, planned the rape.
