This is very disgusting, to think
that this multitude of onlookers could feel less concerned while a 19
year-old-girl is been raped in a broad day light, (by two able bodied young
university undergraduates), is the height of madness. This can never happen in
my country…at least, we are better than them in this aspect.
Fox News report…
A shocking video allegedly shows
a woman being gang-raped in broad daylight while onlookers do nothing to help
her.
Authorities say two Troy
University students, 22-year-old Delonte Martistee and 23-year-old Ryan Calhoun,
have been charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators in connection
with the alleged rape.
Over the past two years,
"Hannity" has documented the worsening behavior by young people on
Panama City's beaches.
He talked Tuesday night to Bay
County Sheriff Frank McKeithen,who called the video "disgusting" and
"sickening," saying the worst part was that onlookers were just feet
from the crime and were "more concerned about spilling their beer than
someone being raped."
Three people were participating
in the alleged gang rape, McKeithen said, adding that officers are in Alabama
with a warrant for the third suspect but haven't located him yet.
Watch the full report above.
Meantime, Florida tourism
officials are vowing to crack down on the yearly Spring Break rowdiness in
Panama City Beach.
Cop Breaks Up Spring Break Brawl,
Body Slams Drunk Beachgoer
Attention, Parents: This Is What
Spring Break REALLY Looks Like
AP reported:
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. --
Tourism officials who survived Florida's other Spring Break fevers are ready to
help Panama City Beach out of the horror show that led to a woman being
sexually assaulted on the sand as hundreds of revelers looked on.
"Shame on Panama City Beach
for letting itself devolve into what it has become," said Nicki E.
Grossman, now president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention &
Visitors Bureau.
She said she's sending a letter
to her Panama City Beach counterparts describing just how her city did it.
"Beer, vomit and urine,
that's not what we wanted," Grossman said.
Her recommendation: Clamp down
and seek a higher-spending clientele. Enforce tighter beach drinking rules,
eliminate traffic patterns that encourage cruising, and invest in tourism
infrastructure. These moves helped turn Fort Lauderdale's image around and
multiplied its spring-break economy tenfold, she said.
Authorities in Bay County, which
includes Panama City Beach, are already taking some of these steps. The Tourist
Development Council voted Tuesday to spend $120,000 more on security, to help
deputies enforce a new ban on alcohol consumption on the city and county's
beaches between March 1 and April 18.
The ban took effect April 1, in
the midst of a Spring Break that now attracts 300,000 partiers and generates
millions in revenue each year.
Businesses that profit from an
anything-goes atmosphere are going to fight this crackdown, Bay County
Commissioner Mike Thomas predicted.
Some clubs make $40,000 to
$50,000 a night just in cover charges to people under 21, and some hotels do
half their annual business during Spring Break alone, he said.
"They not going give that up
without a fight," Thomas said. "It is hard to have family squabbles
like this but our house got messed up and we got to clean it up”.
Culled: FOX News
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