metwadi
11-13-2006, 06:05 PM
Daniella Miletic
October 25, 2006
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/10/24/25N_DVD_narrowweb__300x308,0.jpg
The packaging of the DVD looks almost professional. Its cover includes an 'R' rating, and credits for some of its "stars" — alex, boofa, brendon and choco, to mention a few.
Then there's this cover line: "---- the movie is brought to you by the teenage kings of Werribee. No one messes with us, we only mess with them."
Some of its graphic contents, by now, are known: a 17-year-old girl being bullied, assaulted and humiliated by a gang of 12 youths near the edge of the Werribee River.
The DVD has been widely circulated around the district. Even yesterday, as it became the subject of a police investigation and of widespread public revulsion, a copy was offered for sale to The Age.
Four young men in a metallic orange car twice circled Werribee Secondary College, one of them hanging out of the passenger seat window, holding out a copy and asking: "Does anyone want to by a DVD?"
As the men spruiked, they may not have known that the net was already closing on some of those involved in the DVD's production and distribution.
At least two students have been expelled, and another three suspended from schools in the district, as parents, peers and police grapple with what has happened.
The DVD, which was shot in June, includes footage of the men urinating on the girl, setting her hair alight three times and throwing her top and jacket into the river.
Boys point to the girl, calling her "the victim" before laughing mockingly. One boy walks to the lens and declares: "What the f---, she's the ugliest thing I have ever seen."
The girl, who has a mild developmental delay, was also filmed in sex acts with the boys.
One of the extraordinary aspects of the case is that the alarm was not raised earlier. Parents of some of those involved have known about it for some time, and segments of the DVD were posted on the popular YouTube website more than three months ago, with one segment, titled Pimp My Wife, viewed by almost 2500 people.
It only came to wider notice when excerpts were screened on Monday on the Seven Network's Today Tonight.
Yesterday the girl's father cried as he declared the DVD's makers would face justice. The man, who identified himself as Allan, told ABC radio: "We are going to pursue this to the end to ensure justice comes … It's a horrible, horrible thing that's happened to my daughter."
Allan said his daughter had arranged to meet two of the boys through an MSN internet chat service at a Werribee shopping centre. Soon after arriving she was surrounded and forced by a gang, some of whom she knew, to walk to a nearby riverbank where she was attacked.
Source: http://www.theage.com.au (http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/outcry-over-teenage-girls-assault-recorded-on-dvd/2006/10/24/1161455722271.html)
Related video: Werribee students DVD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKqcGyE_WJ8)
October 25, 2006
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/10/24/25N_DVD_narrowweb__300x308,0.jpg
The packaging of the DVD looks almost professional. Its cover includes an 'R' rating, and credits for some of its "stars" — alex, boofa, brendon and choco, to mention a few.
Then there's this cover line: "---- the movie is brought to you by the teenage kings of Werribee. No one messes with us, we only mess with them."
Some of its graphic contents, by now, are known: a 17-year-old girl being bullied, assaulted and humiliated by a gang of 12 youths near the edge of the Werribee River.
The DVD has been widely circulated around the district. Even yesterday, as it became the subject of a police investigation and of widespread public revulsion, a copy was offered for sale to The Age.
Four young men in a metallic orange car twice circled Werribee Secondary College, one of them hanging out of the passenger seat window, holding out a copy and asking: "Does anyone want to by a DVD?"
As the men spruiked, they may not have known that the net was already closing on some of those involved in the DVD's production and distribution.
At least two students have been expelled, and another three suspended from schools in the district, as parents, peers and police grapple with what has happened.
The DVD, which was shot in June, includes footage of the men urinating on the girl, setting her hair alight three times and throwing her top and jacket into the river.
Boys point to the girl, calling her "the victim" before laughing mockingly. One boy walks to the lens and declares: "What the f---, she's the ugliest thing I have ever seen."
The girl, who has a mild developmental delay, was also filmed in sex acts with the boys.
One of the extraordinary aspects of the case is that the alarm was not raised earlier. Parents of some of those involved have known about it for some time, and segments of the DVD were posted on the popular YouTube website more than three months ago, with one segment, titled Pimp My Wife, viewed by almost 2500 people.
It only came to wider notice when excerpts were screened on Monday on the Seven Network's Today Tonight.
Yesterday the girl's father cried as he declared the DVD's makers would face justice. The man, who identified himself as Allan, told ABC radio: "We are going to pursue this to the end to ensure justice comes … It's a horrible, horrible thing that's happened to my daughter."
Allan said his daughter had arranged to meet two of the boys through an MSN internet chat service at a Werribee shopping centre. Soon after arriving she was surrounded and forced by a gang, some of whom she knew, to walk to a nearby riverbank where she was attacked.
Source: http://www.theage.com.au (http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/outcry-over-teenage-girls-assault-recorded-on-dvd/2006/10/24/1161455722271.html)
Related video: Werribee students DVD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKqcGyE_WJ8)