This past January, five high-school boys were charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl one afternoon at her middle school in an upscale suburb of New Jersey.
The girl supposedly knew two of her assailants, who were between the ages of 15 and 17. One may have been her ex-boyfriend.
The alleged gang rape of a young teenage girl shocked residents, many of whom felt that something like this couldn't happen in their town. But the sad truth is that rape and other sexual assaults occur in suburbs, cities, and rural areas, and victims come from every walk of life.
Rape and sexual ass…
