PANAMA CITY, Fla. (TheBlaze/AP) — Two college students have been
charged with sexually attacking a woman on a crowded Florida
beach filled with spring break revelers who seemed to do nothing
to stop what authorities called an apparent “gang rape.”
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Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, and Delonte’ Martistee, 22, were
arrested Friday and charged with sexual battery by multiple
perpetrators, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. The
Panama City News Herald reports both men are students at Troy
University in Alabama.
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The attack, recorded on a cellphone video, happened sometime
March 10-12 in Panama City, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen
said at a news conference. Authorities learned of the assault
when police in Troy, Alabama, discovered the video while
investigating a shooting.
McKeithen described the recording as the “most disgusting,
sickening thing” he had ever seen. Several men can be seen
surrounding an incapacitated woman on a beach chair.
“This is happening in broad daylight with hundreds of people
seeing and hearing what is happening, and they are more
concerned about spilling their beer than somebody being raped,”
he said. The sheriff said he expected investigators will make
additional arrests.
“It is not safe for our children to be out there on the beaches
when these animals are out there, conducting themselves like
this,” McKeithen said, WJHG-TV reported. “This is no more than a
group of wild animals preying on a carcass as it’s laying in the
woods.”
The victim told police that she thought she had been drugged at
the time, and she did not remember the incident well enough to
report it.
“She knows something happened, but she doesn’t know what
happened,” McKeithen said.
Martistee and Calhoun were being taken Friday to Panama City for
a court hearing. It was unclear Saturday whether they had
defense attorneys.
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