As a woman was raped on a public transit train in Philadelphia last week, riders held up their cellphones and pointed them in the direction of the sexual assault instead of calling 911, authorities say.
last week, riders held up their cellphones and pointed them in the direction of the sexual assault instead of calling 911, authorities said.
"I can tell you that people were holding their phone up in the direction of this woman being attacked," SEPTA Police Chief Thomas J. Nestel III said at a news conference Monday. Nestel said that other riders were on the train at the time but that"there were very few notifications to the police." The attack wasn't reported until a SEPTA employee saw what was happening. Officials said at the news conference that officers responded within three minutes of the employee's report.
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