Dearbhail McDonald: Rapists think they can get away with it — because most of them do
Marcos Vinicius De Silva Umbelino, aged 22, of Riverview, Kilbeggan, Co Westmeath, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in the Midlands. Pictures: Collins Courts
What were they thinking? As they drove around in their souped-up VW Passat in the early hours of the morning, leering at passers-by, what were the five young men sentenced this week for their part in a horrific gang rape in the Midlands thinking?
What was going through their minds when the then group of 17-19-year-old friends enticed a 17-year old girl into their car, subjecting her to a horrific ordeal of vaginal and oral rape, and allowing her nightmare to be filmed on a camera phone before abandoning her to her fate?
