UPDATE: Dad of Teenager Gang-raped in the Park Was Too Drunk to Report the Incident

Posted by Lolade on Tue 12th Jan, 2016 - tori.ng

A fresh report has revealed that the father of the teenager who was gang-raped in a park was too drunk to report the incident.

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It was learnt that the dad of the 18-year old victim tried to get help when his daughter was attacked but shop workers couldn't understand him.

Two men have however been arrested after the young woman was allegedly gang raped while walking in the park with her dad.

Police say the pair voluntarily handed themselves in on Sunday evening, while two others had been apprehended and another was at large.

A shop worker recounted how the dad ran to stores nearby to try to call the police, but no one could understand him.

The grocery store worker told the New York Post: "He was swaying side to side. He asked me, ‘Lend me your phone.’ I said no.

"He didn’t tell me it was an emergency or I need to call the police, or of course I would’ve given it to him or just called the police for him."

The four in custody are aged between 14 and 17 and charges were pending, according to a police statement.

Officers said that the five men took turns raping the teenager at the playground operated by the New York City Parks Department in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn just after 9pm on Thursday.

One man pointed a gun at the father and told him to leave before the men took turns in assaulting the woman, police said.

In a statement on Sunday, police said the father approached a patrol car on the street to report the attack.

Officers went to the scene immediately, but the men had fled, said the statement from Stephen Davis, deputy commissioner for public information.

"There was no delay in the police response," Davis said.

"There were no 911 calls associated with the attack, contrary to media reports."

The woman was taken by ambulance to a hospital, treated and allowed home, police said.

Police released surveillance video taken nearby that they said showed the five suspects before the attack.

The video depicts a group of black men in jackets and sweatshirts talking and laughing inside the store.

A police spokesman confirmed in an email that two of the suspects turned themselves in on Sunday.

A statement issued by the department said two others had been apprehended and the fifth suspect was still at large.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday denounced the rape, pledging police would work to swiftly apprehend the suspects.

"We will take every step possible to find and swiftly prosecute the assailants of this vicious crime," de Blasio said in a statement.

"Every New Yorker in every neighborhood deserves to feel safe and protected, and we will not stop until the perpetrators of this disturbing attack are held accountable for their actions."