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A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested over the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in Chicago that was streamed live on Facebook and watched by about 40 people who didn’t report it to authorities, police have said.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said more arrests are expected as the investigation continues. Police have said the attack involved five or six males, and Guglielmi said the boy “was one of the offenders in the video”.
Guglielmi said the juvenile suspect faces felony charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault, and manufacturing and dissemination of images of child sexual abuse.
The spokesman has said police were not aware of the mid-March attack until the girl’s mother approached Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and showed him the video.
‘Visibly upset’
Johnson was “visibly upset” after he watched, both by the video’s content and the fact that there were “40 or so live viewers and no one thought to call authorities”, Guglielmi said.
The girl’s mother said her daughter received online threats following the attack. The Chicago Sun Times later reported that the girl’s family had been relocated.
The video marks the second time in recent months that Chicago police have investigated an apparent attack that was broadcast live on Facebook. In January, four people were arrested after video showed them allegedly taunting and beating a man with mental disabilities.
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TXFM sounds likes a country music station.
I hope not
Who wants to listen to songs about the wife leaving and the dog dying
Exactly, sounds like they will play tex-mex all the time !
there is a country radio station in the states with that name
As if anyone is actually going to start calling it TXFM…what a shite name.
Very sorry for the genuinely good presenters who are being made redundant. But going for a ‘fun’ breakfast show was when the alarm bells started ringing. RIP Phantom.
Totally agree BB. That breakfast show dragged the rest of the station under. I feel sorry for Charlotte – she had a lot to put up with. Once Sinister Pete was ousted, things started to slip out of their grasp. It was like the first few rocks falling at the beginning of a landslide – you think “ah ’twill be grand” but it’s already too late to get out of the way.
I really hope they don’t muck it up more.
PS: The TX is industry shorthand for “transmission”, though it reminds me of the old pirate days when they used to buy in whole branding and audio station ID packages from the states and just cut the “K” or “W” off the top of the name!
I’ve been a listener to Phantom for a good few years but have to agree about the breakfast show, that guy is so unfunny that my toes curl for him, used to love it when Michelle Doherty was on in the morning.
Not a great start is it? Phantom is a far better name. Hopefully they won’t start dishing out the more commercial side of the scene and the music doesn’t suffer. There’s only so much kings of Leon and snow patrol I can listen to without wanting to drive into a wall!
Haha or kill the crack ‘Killers’
When PhantomFM went “legal” and a certain media mogul ( who owns way too many radio stations and other media outlets) got involved , that was the beginning of the end for PhantomFM and REAL music
Irish radio stations (wit few progressive exceptions) have missed a huge opportunity to go digital. Phantom should have been the first to go do it but now have been left behind.
Phantom to TXFM to 2FM to silence
I think you have a few too many steps there. I think it’s more Phantom to TXFM to silence. How can they have a radio station with only 3 djs, one of whom is pants, one is so-so and the other one decent? The new schedule is gona look very strange. I’d say just get a Spotify account or something similar. At least then you won’t have to listen to ads.
I have one, much better than the radio, newstalk or sunshine in the car, spotify at home
Who are the surviving DJs?
Spotify account? How does that work in the car then? That solves nothing when driving, without a bunch of messing about with wires for 10mins before you even turn on the engine. For the car, you need a radio with a couple good stations to flick through. Done. No need for all this overreaction.
^ phone bluetooth…no wires.
Try changing a song on a phone while driving without looking at it and taking your mind off the road. Then compare that to a simple button on the steering wheel, already in your line of sight. No debate needed. Plus with Spotify, your counting on your 3G all the time. The whole process is unnecessary when compared to changing a channel.
You try 8tracks Anto? Choose play list and it’ll keep going. I find it handier than Spotify tbh.
Just looked up 8tracks there, looks interesting. May be better than Spotify, but the fundamentals of the rigmarole before driving are the same. I’d probably listen to 8tracks in the house though.
@anto. connect an ipod to the car radio, set up a few playlists. I hate wires all over the car myself, and agree it is much safer changing a radio station than looking though a phone. Ipod is handy
Anto just get a BMW with Idrive?
Ok. Thanks. Can I borrow a few quid off you? I promise I’ll pay you back…..
You don’t need 3G when using your Spotify. There is a listen offline option when you’re browsing music, saved to your phone then. Any car can get a complete Bluetooth system installed to listen to all your music on your phone via your car radio, roughly 150 euro.
€150? BMW’s? Spotify subscriptions? Just listen to the radio, it’s free! If something bad comes on, change the channel! The amount of overreacting going on here is unbelievable. You people need a smack of reality in the face.
But radio is shite.
I guess some people would rather pay a few quid to be able to listen to something they like when driving rather than flicking through stations and listening to what a DJ is playing. Whos right? whos wrong? do what you want. Thats the reality.
Anto I said I listen to newstalk or sunshine in the car, spotify in the house and shed.
Works for us – still not sure about Spotify but use in car all the time no inane chatter or endless ads!
Been a listener since 2007, don’t like new name. Xfm is an already well known brand, txfm sounds like someone trying to copy it.
One of the best stations in the country!
It was at one point. The changes they made sent it down the tubes.
RnaG is better
My favourite station keeps me company every morning on my commute, will miss the guys…dunno if I’ll keep listening, will have to wait n see…
Terrible news for old Phantom listeners- the re brand/ realignment with Today FM will mean that middle of the road, drivel merchants like the proven to be ratings toxic, Joe Donnelly will be protected so that he can carry on at the expense of talented, knowledgeable people – e.g the Richie Ryan, Wil St Ledger, Derek Byrne, Cathal Funge, Richie Mc Cormack & Nadine O Regan etc
A Sad day.
RIP Phantom
Hehe
Should have stayed a pirate station. Only play good music out of the core hours otherwise its the rubbish they are paid yo play. The problem is chasing the dollar … Now there is nothing to distinguish them from any other station
I personally loved the morning show
It’s no wonder Keith Walsh jumped ship, he knew himself he’d be the first for the dole queue !
He’s one of the main reasons people started switching off from the breakfast show. I’ve heard a bit of him on 2FM since and along with Bernard O’Shea and Jennifer Maguire they are excruciating
Is Communicorp the kiss of death to cool?
Sounds like the baddy in a Sci-fi movie
Stop the moaning, at least we’ll still have a Indie Rock station in Dublin. Music fans need to support this or we will be left with nothing good on the airwaves.
Sounds countryish “TeXas FM”
Who uses words like ‘indie’ and ‘alternative’ these days? Very 1990s. Whole enterprise sounds dated to me. Do they not listen to BBC 6 Music? Who just listens to indie music? Peoplejust want to hear great music by people who know their music.
So how would you categorise it? It does need a particular word to describe it to differentiate itself from typical chart music
As someone who bought probably 70% of his albums in the 90′s I shall persist with this terminology thank you very much.
So Joe is one of those to keep his job. There are no words. I could weep.
TodayXM sounds better than TXFM
XM is associated with digital radio rather than FM. Hence RTE 2XM for example, which is not on FM.
Trying to appeal to a broader listenership is what has ruined Phantom in the first place.
The surviving DJ’s as far as I’m aware are Joe from Phantom Breakfast, John Cadell & Clare Beck. Sad sad news. I agree the breakfast show hasn’t been the same since “Pure Morning”.
TextFm
Crap name, exactly right it sounds like a country music name.
It was great to start off with with Sinister Pete in the mornings but slowly but surely it got worse and worse and worse again.
Well done to all the bosses involved for running a great station into the ground. I hope someone comes up with a new one soon. Rip phantom. It was fantastic until you started acting the b*lix.
The surviving DJ’s as far as I’m aware are Joe from Phantom Breakfast, John Cadell & Clare Beck. Sad sad news. I agree the breakfast show hadn’t been the same since “Pure Morning”.
John Cadell is great. I’ll miss the two Richies though – they’re great also.
The name makes me want to spark up the BBQ
No finest work songs, no doherty, no listening for me. The station is indeed now a Phantom. Game Over.
RIP Phantom!
Well it’s a stupid name but it makes commercial since to link it to Today FM for brand power, and at least they didn’t just copy-and-paste one of Communicorp’s recently acquired conveyor-belt foreign brands like XFM, which was apparently one of the options.
Come to think of it, TodayFM sounded ridiculous when I first heard the name, but we’ve gotten used to it.
Dave couse Sunday night today fm.
:( Devastating. I really hope the music doesn’t suffer but to loose so many great DJs has got to have a negative effect on the output. A self-proclaimed alternative station wanting to align itself with it’s mainstream counterpart and retain it’s alternative integrity at the same time?! How does that make any sense..!
“He added that he believes that the indie-music fan base in Dublin will welcome this latest development”
#deluded
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