A 14 year-old girl in the US may face criminal charges after allegedly helping to organise the gang rape of a classmate.
The teenager, who cannot be named, has told media that she and her 14-year-old classmate planned to have consensual sex with the three alleged attackers, aged 16, 17 and 20, at a house in Monroeville, Alabama, last Monday.
But local prosecutor Tommy Chapman said the teenager, who is in a relationship with one of the three men, was now being investigated as an accomplice in the assault.
"The victim told police that the attack did begin as consensual contact," Mr Chapman told local newspaper the Press Register of Mobile.
"But when all three suspects began to join in, she told them no repeatedly, but they did not stop."
The girl was injured so badly she required surgery and had to spend three days in the intensive care unit.
Police allege the girls and the alleged attackers — Steven Scott, 20, DeShon Riley, 16, and Justin Williams, 17 — left school early on the day of the attack and walked to the house.
When they arrived at the house, police allege Scott, Riley and Williams took turns to rape one of the girls.
The other girl now under investigation has told police the three then tried to rape her, but that nothing happened.
The alleged attackers are being held on charges of felony rape.
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