WTF: There Have Been Two Gang Rapes at UC Santa Barbara in Two Months
LatestOver the weekend, a female University of California, Santa Barbara student was beaten and raped by three men. Her rape was the second of that weekend and the second gang rape of a UCSB student in two months.
In January, three young men were arrested for raping a UCSB student on the street. The men had just been identified for shoplifting from a local store that same evening. On Saturday, a different set of men attacked another young woman in the same neighborhood of Isla Vista, which surrounds the UCSB community. Because the victim was so disoriented, police are unsure exactly where her attack occurred or exactly what the men looked like. The night prior to this second gang rape, a third young woman was raped outside a party by an identified man.
According to CBS 2, the University has sent out texts to students letting them know about the most recent gang assault and warning them to be on alert. Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover said that while “reports of sexual assaults in Isla Vista are not uncommon … this is definitely an extreme case.”