A video of a mother being gang raped appeared on YouTube in late February 2008. Reportedly, the video is three minutes long, and the victim is seen unconscious during the attack, while her two children are heard screaming, watching their mother being raped repeatedly. The suspects have been arrested, but the video was reportedly seen by hundreds of people before it was taken down by the popular website. The alleged victim criticized YouTube for allowing the "degrading" video to be put online.

On April 1, 2008 Google, YouTube's parent company admitted it's mistake in not removing the video from their site sooner, stating generally inappropriate videos are removed one hour after they are submitted.

Also on April 1, 2008, the alleged victim in the video was arrested for suspicion of having sex with a 14 year-old boy, prompting police to further investigate the prior rape claims she made concerning the video.

1. The woman is reportedly 24 years old
2. The attack allegedly took place in her home
3. Victim is reportedly from South London
4. Three teenage boys committed the crime
5. Video is three minutes long
6. Video was titled "Mashin"
7. Suspects allegedly filmed the incident on a camera phone
8. Suspects are reportedly 14 to 16 years old
9. Allegedly the attack took place for 14 hours
10. Reportedly 600 people saw the footage before it was pulled by YouTube
11. Reportedly mother was raped in front of screaming children
12. Allegedly Champagne was spiked with a narcotic, which rendered the victim helpless

Quotes:

1. "[Screening each video] would burden the process of creativity,... You do not have a policeman on every street corner to stop things from happening, you have policemen responding very quickly when things do happen." —Kent Walker, Google spokesperson
2. "A YouTube spokesman told The Times that the site's rules prohibited content such as pornography and gratuitous violence from being uploaded." - The Daily Telegraph
3. "'Putting [the video] on the internet was an abomination,' the mother said. 'I cannot understand how any website could show such a thing.'" - Times Online