The actions of the Roast Busters, a group of teenagers who film their sexual exploits with drunk girls and post the footage online are “absolutely rape”, [Dr Kim McGregor], the director of Rape Prevention Education says.
But police say they cannot take action against the young men because no victims have laid formal complaints, Detective Inspector Bruce Scott said.
“It’s one thing to talk about it, but it’s another thing to prove it in court. And our difficulty is, we can’t prove it in court.
“People post [online] about all sorts of things, but we need evidence to actually prove it to the courts.”
The victims are understood to be as young as 13 years old.
The group of Auckland men, believed to be aged 17 and 18, go by the name the Roast Busters as they set out for group sex with mainly intoxicated young women before naming and shaming their conquests online.
“If the information that we’re getting through the media is correct, it’s absolutely rape,” executive director Dr Kim McGregor said.
“Some of the girls are children, they’re only aged 13 so that’s rape. Even if you’re over 16 and having sex with people who cannot give consent because they’re stupefied by a drug, that’s rape.”
The attitudes of the men involved are a “huge concern” and unfortunately widespread, she said.
“They have been saying it makes them feel like a man, and talking about women not as humans but as boasts – dehumanising them. I hope men’s groups are stepping up to address this.”
The group started a Facebook group five months ago and have been calling for other men to join them, 3 News reported. The Facebook page has since been taken down.
“We take what we do seriously, some of you think this is a joke, it’s not,” said one of the men in an online video.
“You try and get with the amount of girls we do. This is hard, it’s a job, we don’t do this s*** for pleasure.”
One underage girl who spoke with 3 News said she was a victim of the Roast Busters.
“I just kept blacking out ’cause I had drunken too much,” she said. “You could say I got raped. I had sex with three guys at one time.”
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