BOARDMAN Girl reports rape during movie trip

The girl said the attack took place in a van in the theater's parking lot.
By JOHN W. GOODWIN JR.
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
BOARDMAN -- Township police continue their investigation of the reported rape of a 15-year-old girl outside the Cinemark Movies 8 Theater on Boardman-Poland Road.
The girl was taken to Forum Health Northside Medical Center for treatment. She is a resident at Lincoln Place Campus Residential Center on Indianola Avenue, Youngstown, a juvenile detention facility.
The victim is under the jurisdiction of Portage County Children Services.
Police reports say the girl and nine other Lincoln Place residents went to the theater Saturday night accompanied by one of the facility's adult workers.
Left theater: The girl told police that once the group was inside the theater, she decided to sit with a male friend who also happened to be at the theater. The boy and the girl made plans to leave the theater, without permission from the adult chaperone, to smoke a cigarette.
The girl said she and the boy were smoking cigarettes on the side of a van when three other males reportedly came over and started whispering in the boy's ear.
He left, and the girl stayed in the parking lot with the three males.
The girl said all three males then pushed her into the van and repeatedly raped her. She could not estimate the ages of her attackers.
Reports say the attack lasted about 45 minutes until another unidentified male knocked on the van's window and said "Hurry up; the movie is over." The girl told officers her attackers then threw her clothes at her, told her to get dressed and not to mention the attack to anyone.
Fight: Police said the girl got out of the van and was heading back to the theater but was stopped by a girlfriend from Lincoln Place and questioned about being in the vehicle with the three males.
The girl told officers a fistfight started between the two because the friend assumed a consensual sex act had taken place.
Shortly after the fight had been broken up, reports say, the adult chaperone asked the victim about her whereabouts. The girl said she went outside to smoke a cigarette. She did not report the rape to any adults until returning to the Lincoln Place facility later that evening.