Nine suspected gang members and associates have been charged with a sexual assault of a 14-year-old who was raped after trying to leave a party.
The girl and her friend were arrested at school in Chicago for one of the men and attracted to a party with alleged members of the TB22, or True Blood 22, street gang, prosecutors said.
They were forced to enter an abandoned house in St. Paul after he tried to leave the party, held last November.
According to a criminal complaint, the girl wanted to leave the game, but was taken out of a car and taken back inside.
"This crime was every parent's nightmare," said Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said in a statement.
"Crimes like these shock the conscience of our community. "
"The victim reported to grab everything he could, including door frames, to stop bringing it to the room," the complaint said.
The girl told a nurse after he was forced to a mattress on the floor inside the room, a group of men held her down while she struggled and screamed for help.
One defendant told police at least two men raped the girl, according to the complaint.
She told the nurse that when she asked the man who brought to the party, 24 year old Mang Yang for help, he said he had to go, according to the complaint. The assault stopped when one of the men yelled "police" and ran around the world, the lawsuit said.
Kong Meng Vang, 38, Mitchell Teng Yang, 22, Tou Vang Vue Germany, 19, and Van Chai Xiong, 18, were charged in the alleged assault Yang.
Four children, Jim Ella, 17; Shaileng Shong Lor, 16, Xou Yang, 16, and fourth is not immediately named because it is 15, were also charged.
According to the complaint, Yang told police he knew the others planned to rape the girl and "has the intention of the band each time you get the girls to party with them to get drunk and rape them.
One of the teenagers told police that Yang told him to keep the child. But the complaint, said Yang told police he went looking for the girl after she took his car and heard her scream and saw the teen run out of a room.
Yang said that he asked if anything happened, but she was crying and did not respond, according to the complaint.
Yang is charged along with four other men, between 18 and 37. Four male minors, ages 15 to 17, also paid. They each face four counts: aiding and abetting first-degree sexual conduct, conspiracy to commit first degree sexual conduct, kidnapping a child under 16 years of age, and the commission of a crime for the benefit of a gang.
The nine defendants are alleged gang members or associates.
Yang and three other adult defendants made their first court appearances on Friday and were appointed public defenders.
"This is a very serious case in many cases the co-accused and hope to offer the best defense possible in each case to reach a fair solution," said Kelley Malone O'Neill, managing attorney in the Ramsey County Office of Public Counsel.
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