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This article was published 13 year(s) and 4 month(s) ago

Rape suspect said he felt ‘bad’ he didn’t stop gang rape

Taylor Provost

March 27, 2012 by Taylor Provost

SALEM – A former Salem High School student on trial for the rape of a teenage girl in a Lynn apartment said he didn’t participate in the rape but was aware of what was happening in his bedroom, according to a video recording of a police interview played in Superior Court this morning.?You want to do it because your friends are doing it,” Rafael Nino Brito told Lynn Police on Feb. 18, 2008. “I know I’m involved because it was at my house.”Brito, 22, formerly of Lynn, is charged with aggravated rape after allegedly participating in the gang-rape of a then-17-year-old Salem girl on Feb. 15, 2008 when he and three other men were supposed to be giving her a ride home from a friend?s house in Lynn.Assistant District Attorney Greg Friedholm played the jury the first interview Lynn Police had with Brito after the crime. In it, he admits the woman, who had been drinking before and after meeting up with the men, appeared drunk, but insisted she was “going with the flow at the beginning.”?I feel bad because I didn’t stop it,” Brito can be heard telling detectives in the interview room.Read the complete story in Wednesday’s Daily Item.

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