Four charged in gang rape of girl, 14
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Criminal Courts Reporter/rhussain@suntimes.com
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Three Stickney teenagers and a man from Cicero gang-raped a 14-year-old LaGrange girl and recorded the attacks on a cell phone, police and prosecutors said.
Alex Picallo, 16, Majeed Khalifeh, 18, and Jonathan Leanos, 19, of Stickney, and 22-year-old Vicente Hernandez, of Cicero, were charged with two counts each of aggravated criminal sexual assault in the incident at Leanos’ Stickney home Saturday, authorities said.
Picallo was ordered held on $500,000 bail Tuesday. Khalifeh and Leanos appeared in court in Bridgeview on Wednesday and were ordered held in lieu of $600,000 and $750,000 bail, respectively.
Hernandez will appear for a bond hearing later Thursday at the Bridgeview courthouse, police said.
Leanos met the victim online last summer, and they met several times before Leanos took the victim to his house Saturday, prosecutors said.
Leanos asked the girl to have sex with him, police said. When she refused, he took her to pick up Khalifeh and Hernandez, then returned to his home where Picallo met them, police said. Leanos told the victim to have sex with his friends, and the encounter was filmed on a cell phone, police said.
The girl was treated at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn and released after the incident, police said.
Contributing: Sun-Times Media Wire
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