COPARTNERS IN THE OFFENSE: HETEROSEXUAL OFFENSES VS. ADULTS
Five males (aged seventeen to nineteen) and the eighteen-year-old offender picked up a nineteen-year-old girl who had missed the bus home from an amusement park. After parking near the river two of the males went off to swim and the other three persuaded her to have coitus. She finally agreed and got into the back seat. One male attempted intercourse without success, but the second succeeded. The present offender claimed he only held the door open for her. As she was a virgin, she bled profusely and later charged rape against all five males. Here, while all the males were accessories, only two were apparently directly involved in the sex behavior.
An eighteen-year-old male and three companions en route home from a party all had coitus with a nineteen-year-old girl who was in the car with them. They were chased by the police and apprehended. The final conviction was based on their buying alcohol for another seventeen-year-old girl, but it was a direct result of the earlier event. The nineteen-year-old girl had given evidence, and, hence, was not involved in the charge.
Six army buddies, plus the offender, aged twenty-two, had a drinking party on the beach. It ended in their attacking a dating couple and attempting intercourse with the female. The offender claimed he did not have intercourse but admitted his fly was open, and he was charged with holding the girl’s head down while she was raped by a companion.
A twenty-two-year-old male and four friends picked up an eighteen-year-old girl and her girl friend. The latter was let out and the party continued into the hills, drinking. The girl accused the males of forceful coitus, but since medical examination showed her hymen to be intact, coitus was apparently attempted rather than completed.
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