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Police probe report of rape
YOUNGSTOWN
City police are investigating the reported rape of a Struthers woman.
The 21-year-old woman told police the attack took place Nov. 30 on the city’s North Side. She reported the attack Wednesday afternoon.
According to reports, the woman told officers she received a phone call just after 10 p.m. Tuesday from a man she knows only by the street name “J.” The man wanted the woman to pay back $420 he had given her to cover court costs for an incident in Struthers court.
The woman told police she agreed to meet the man at a store in the 800 block of East Midlothian Boulevard. Two male friends drove the woman to the store.
The woman told police the man she was supposed to meet showed up at the store driving a gold-colored Cadillac and told her to get into the car. She said the man pulled a gun on her and drove to the North Side.
Reports say the woman was ordered, at gunpoint, into a home somewhere on the North Side, then beaten and thrown into walls. She told officers that a second man she did not know was in the house and held her legs while the man known as “J” performed various sex acts on her.
The attacker, she told officers, told her to call her friends and then dropped her off at the McDonald’s restaurant on Fifth Avenue. She told her friends what took place, and the group drove to the woman’s boyfriend’s house in Canfield. The boyfriend took the woman to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where police were called.