Three Pennsylvania men accused of abducting and repeatedly raping a teen girl allegedly committed the “brutal and heinous” acts over three days before they were nabbed, officials said.
“These are sickos, there is no doubt about it,” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday.
They allegedly kidnapped the 15-year-old while she walked to her father’s house in southwest Philadelphia at about 11 p.m. on Sept. 28.
She tried to break free, but was held down in the car, according to police.
The teen was allegedly taken to to Kulah’s and Kesselly’s apartment where the three men took turns sexually assaulting her, NBC 10 Philadelphia reported.
The victim said Kesselly woke up beside her on Saturday and threatened her mother as well, according to court documents.
“He said, ‘Do your mom look like you? We gonna get her too,'” a detective wrote in the documents. “The victim began to cry and told him she wanted to go home.”
At some point, she was allowed out to a McDonald’s, but was taken back to the apartment. On Sunday, she had heard a car pull away and believed her attackers were finally gone, police said.
A man in an SUV found the teen crying on the street and then drove her to her father, who took her to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
They reported the rape the following day.
Investigators helped her to retrace where she had been, finding the apartment and identifying the car used in the alleged abduction.
“The young girl was very credible,” Chitwood told the Inquirer.
The men were tracked down and identified by the victim, police said. They claimed she voluntarily got into the car.
They are charged with 36 counts, including rape, sex assault and kidnapping, according to NBC 10.
Bail was set at $100,000 each, and a hearing is scheduled for Oct. 12.
“As tragic as the events were,” Chitwood told the Inquirer, “she’s a lucky young lady that they didn’t kill her.”
