40 people watched an alleged sexual assault video streamed live on Facebook — but no one did anything

Chicago police are looking for five or six men who reportedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old on Facebook Live. 

None of the roughly 40 people who watched the live video reported the attack to police, authorities told The Associated Press. 

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Police only learned of the assault when the girl's mother approached the head of Chicago police department, Superintendent Eddie Johnson, as he was leaving a department station on the city's West Side. 

The mother told him her daughter had been missing since Sunday and showed him screenshots of her being gang-raped, according to department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. (We are not naming the mother or the daughter to protect their privacy.) Read more...

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