by KYW's Tony Hanson
Two young men have pleaded guilty, two others have turned down plea deals and decided to go to trial set for June in a case that started with robbery and ended with a gang rape in South Philadelphia in June of last year.
Prosecutor Bill Davis says the four young men targeted a West Philadelphia man who had bragged about coming into money. But he didn't have any money, so at gunpoint and afraid for his life, he directed the robbers to his sister's home in South Philadelphia in the middle of the night:
"It was just her and her young daughter home at the time. In addition to stealing her Mac card and getting her pin number and taking money out of the ATM with with her account, all four males, multiple times, sexually assaulted her, both in the living room and upstairs in the bedroom before they left."
Davis says the woman pleaded with the men not to go near her daughter, and at one point she asked them to stop so she could check on her daughter and make sure she was still asleep.
The little girl was not harmed. The woman's husband was at work at the time.
One of the defendants who pleaded guilty has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years, while the judge has yet to decide the sentence for the second.
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