The Bystander effect .

    It was the end of a homecoming dance at Richmond high school in 2009. A fifteen year old girl, whose name has not been released due to her age, joined a classmate and his group of friends. The males, ages fifteen to mid-twenties, were drinking alcohol in a courtyard area on campus. The girl had drunk a large amount of liquor and was asked to have sex by the alleged attackers. When she refused to do it, she was forced on to a nearby bench and continuously beaten and raped for 2½ hours by the males and with “foreign objects”. There were twelve dozen witnesses watching the attack happened.
    
I believe this incident is an example of the bystander effect because out of all twenty-four people that stood there watching, none of them got involved because looking around analyzing the situation no one else was doing anything about it either. If one person would have made an attempt to help her everyone else would have joined in and the large group of witnesses could have easily outnumbered and over powered the group of attackers to put an end to what was happening. I understand Intervening is neither best nor safest route all the time but even a phone call to the police would have sufficed but because people were using their phones to record and take pictures instead of call the police, no one acted in a way to help this young girl.