Pitch black in that park. I don't see the city paying to put in any lights there though, not unless more incidents occurred.

Wild beasts. Only 8 years? This girl will have issues for life because of this.

"Gangs thrive on being the biggest, baddest people on the block" -- so that's why 3 17-year-old males assaulted a drunk 13-year-old girl? Disgusting. Can't they just stick to killing each other? Thanks.

If the city won't cough up the money to pay for lights at busy crossing streets, they sure as heck will not pay for lights in dangerous parks.

But there is always more money for pet projects like bicycles.

So... let's see...approx'ly 3M females are raped in USA each year (reported and est. unreported) and which gang do those guys mainly belong to?
Why the good ol' boys' club gang that's been operating for the past 7,000 years.
Rape is all about violence and power like these guys said... and for too many males any excuse is a good reason to rape a female.

And what gang runs USA gov't for the most part? Why that would be the good ol' boys' club gang if I remember correctly.

IF you don't want to be an accomplice then you must speak up and take actions to confront the paradigm at every chance.

I don't think lights in the park would have stopped this from happening.

The poor girl was hanging out with monsters. She was too young to know it.

8 and 5 years aint long enough. We need to get rid of all plea bargains. Let a jury of our peers decide how long to put these [portion removed; see terms of use] away.

OK, lets say approx 3M women are raped. That means approx 3M rapists, and for this argument we'll presume they are all male, but as headlines prove that's not always the case. Anyway, 3M rapists out of a male population of 102,665,043. The equate to less than 3% of the male population aged 16-64.
Apparently if you WANT to hate an entire group, you just need a tiny minority to fed that hate and basically view 1/2 the population of the US as somehow supportive of rape.

Just wanted to put some fact to the emotion so we can all see who we're dealing with. Someone who sees half the US population as somehow supportive of rape.
I can't argue with that. Rather, I won't, just like I won't argue with the ranting people on Market Street in SF.

The park needs lights and security cameras.

Oh yeah, and that park is actually the Castro Elementary School Campus during the day. And the victim and one of the rapists went to that school. Lovely.