Two Held in Rape of Girl Fleeing Captors

Two teen-agers have been arrested in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old Thousand Oaks girl who told police she had been held captive and raped repeatedly over six days, only to escape and be raped again by three “rescuers,” police reported Monday.

The 16- and 17-year-old suspects, whose names were withheld because of their ages, were arrested late Saturday and booked at Eastlake Juvenile Hall, said Los Angeles Police Detective Ben Lovato. A third suspect, Antonio Diaz, 18, of Los Angeles, was also arrested and held in lieu of $10,000 bail, Lovato said.

The victim, who was not identified, told police she had flagged down a car after escaping from a South-Central Los Angeles residence where she had been held for six days and raped repeatedly. The girl told police she was abducted at knifepoint April 16 at the Greyhound terminal downtown by two men who took her to a car in which three other men were waiting, drove her to a home in South-Central Los Angeles and assaulted her repeatedly.