Teenage girl who broadcast friend being raped live on Periscope 'got caught up in the likes' | Americas. A teenager accused of livestreaming her friend’s rape on Periscope “got caught up in the likes” on social media, a court has heard. Marina Lonina, 18, has pleaded not guilty to rape and kidnapping alongside her co-defendant Raymond Gates, 29, who is accused of carrying out the attack at a house in Ohio. In a court hearing on Friday, prosecutors said Lonina told police she broadcast the alleged crime using the Periscope app to help her 17-year-old friend. Raymond Gates (AP) Ron O’Brien, the Franklin County Prosecutor, told the New York Times Lonina got “caught up in the likes” and was “giggling and laughing”.
“I have never seen a case such as this where you would actually live stream a sexual assault,” he added to WNCN television. “Based on the video that I saw it didn’t appear for the most part of it that she was attempting to help the victim.” Lonina is accused of being complicit in the assault at a house in Columbus, Ohio, on 27 February. The case continues. Teenager Is Accused of Live-Streaming a Friend’s Rape on Periscope. Video When an Ohio teenager witnessed her 17-year-old friend being raped, according to officials, she not only failed to help the victim, she pointed her phone and streamed a live video of it on the Periscope app. The teenager, Marina Lonina, 18, faces a spate of charges as severe as those facing Raymond Gates, 29, the man accused in the attack. Both have been charged with kidnapping, rape, sexual battery and pandering sexual matter involving a minor. “I have never seen a case such as this where you would actually live-stream a sexual assault,” Ron O’Brien, the Franklin County prosecutor, said in remarks to the local news media.
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