Egypt: 35 men raped three girls for two years

Three Egyptian girls who were casted away from their family homes’ and forced to beg in the streets were kidnapped by a group of unemployed where they were raped by 35 young people.

The investigative center of Giza south of Cairo received a report stating that three girls were begging on Al-Arish Street in the area of Haram in Giza. When they were busted, it turned out that they are street children who escaped from their families and mastered mendacity.

Investigations revealed that the girls are aged between 16 and 18 from the provinces of Gharbiya, Aswan and Giza. During their panhandling, they were abducted by a group of unemployed, street vendors and Auto rickshaw drivers who raped them in an unknown area.

The girls admitted before the prosecution that they had been raped, and gave the descriptions and the aliases of the accused. The number of accused was 35 young men, including street vendors, Auto rickshaw drivers and unemployed men on Arish Street; they had been raping the girls for two years, threatening them with white weapons and taking them to the deserted area to rape them. Security forces seized 5 of them and are searching for the others.

The five defendants were held for 15 days in custody on charges of rape and defamation. The Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the security services to act quickly to arrest the fugitives.