Woman charged with livestreaming alleged rape of teen friend
Marina Lonina, left, and Raymond Gates. A prosecutor charged Lonina with using an app to livestream the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl. Lonina and her co-defendant Raymond Gates were charged today with rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexually-oriented matter involving a minor. (Franklin County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
COLUMBUS, Ohio » An 18-year-old woman who used a social media app to livestream the alleged rape of her 17-year-old friend was indicted along with another man by a grand jury on several charges including rape and kidnapping, an Ohio prosecutor said today.
The case came to light when authorities were contacted after an out-of-state friend of the accused woman saw the images, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said.
Marina Lonina and co-defendant Raymond Gates, 29, were charged with rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexually-oriented matter involving a minor. The alleged rape involved intercourse by force, according to today’s indictment, which did not mention her age as a factor.
Lonina was also charged with illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance, related to the alleged use of the social media livestreaming app Periscope.
Periscope, an app for smartphones, uses a video function to allow users to stream events live.
O’Brien said Lonina and the victim were socializing with Gates at a home in Columbus on Feb. 27 when Gates raped the 17-year-old girl. Lonina used the Periscope app to livestream the assault, O’Brien said.
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Lonina had also taken a picture of the girl in the nude the night before at Lonina’s house, O’Brien said.
Gates is scheduled for arraignment Friday. Court records don’t list attorneys for either defendant to respond to the charges. They each face up to 40 years in prison, if convicted.
In February, a Florida woman received a six-month license suspension and 150 hours of community service after she streamed live video of herself driving drunk last year.
18 responses to “Woman charged with livestreaming alleged rape of teen friend”
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Lonina’s “friend” is the rape victim. Lonina’s other out-of-state “friend” saw the video and reported it to authorities. Has the definition of “friend” changed that much since I was growing up? Wow.
Thanks to social media, the term “friend” doesn’t mean what it used to.
With friends like that, who needs enemies eh.
yikes!!!
don’t worry allie. trolls don’t get raped.
Neither do cretins who bother to respond to trolls.
Isn’t that sort of like the pot calling the kettle black?
lol then you have nothing to worry about! you remove your butt plug now.
Hopefully they get the 40 years…and they’ll be on video every day of their incarceration.
Hopefully these two are locked up for life so they can’t ruin anyone’s life. Prison sounds too good for them at this point.
send them to the one jared went to.
I doubt we’re getting the whole story here. If the girl was raped, why didn’t SHE report it. Why would she let the same “friend” take a nude picture of her the night before the rape? She might be more complicit than the article indicates. SA isn’t exactly the Washington Post.
If the Washington Post also picked the story up from the AP (that’s the Associated Press), I’m sure it ran exactly the same way.
Heartless, cruelty and mindlessly creatures from hell! That ain’t no friend – more like a fiend!
Marina is kinda hot! Too bad the punishment couldn’t be to livestream her own rape…I’d be the first to volunteer!
waaaaa?
If your name’s not registered yet, I’m guessing it should be.
Sick POS.