{"id":1232987,"date":"2022-01-23T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1232987"},"modified":"2022-01-23T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:52:37","slug":"charges-not-expected-for-bystanders-who-witnessed-rape-on-philadelphia-train-da-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charges-not-expected-for-bystanders-who-witnessed-rape-on-philadelphia-train-da-office-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges Not Expected for Bystanders Who Witnessed Rape on Philadelphia Train, DA Office Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcharges-not-expected-for-bystanders-who-witnessed-rape-on-philadelphia-train-da-office-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1232987&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fiston-Ngoy-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Authorities say they do not expect to charge passengers for failing to intervene when an illegal alien allegedly raped a woman on a suburban Philadelphia train in October.<\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cIt\u2019s still an open investigation, but there is no expectation at this time that we will charge passengers,\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><span>spokeswoman Margie McAboy with the Delaware County District Attorney\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-philadelphia-d195a69fc7ab0b7bc8ab9d6cab229936\">said<\/a>, according to the Associated Press.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The rape occurred on October 13 around 10:00 p.m. on a&nbsp;<\/span>Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA)&nbsp;<span>Market-Frankford line train, Breitbart News previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/10\/17\/police-say-woman-raped-train-passengers-did-nothing\/\">reported<\/a>. An affidavit asserts that Fiston Ngoy, 35, groped and touched the victim during the 40-minute train ride as she attempted to stave him off, according to the Associated Press.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\"><span>Breitbart News previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/20\/illegal-alien-released-into-u-s-charged-with-raping-woman-on-pennsylvania-train\/\">reported<\/a> that Ngoy, who is from the Republic of the Congo, \u201c<\/span><span>originally arrived in the U.S. on an F-1 student visa in 2012. By 2015, though, Ngoy\u2019s visa was terminated and he began living as an illegal alien after failing to self-deport.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Per the Associated Press:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Investigators say Ngoy ripped the woman\u2019s pants off and proceeded to rape her for somewhere between six and eight minutes before officers boarded the train and detained him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Police declined to say how many passengers may have witnessed the assault, but have said it appeared that some held their phones up in the direction of the assault seemingly to film the attack. Police have also declined to say whether investigators have found any photos or videos of the attack posted online.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n[embedded content]\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">In the days after the attack, Superintendent of the Upper Darby Police Department Timothy&nbsp;Bernhardt said that surveillance footage showed passengers neither acted to stop the rape nor did they call 911, Breitbart News previously reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">\u201cWere they watching? I don\u2019t know. Again, we\u2019re still going through the video but there was a lot of people, in my opinion, that should\u2019ve intervened,\u201d Bernhardt <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2021\/10\/16\/woman-raped-on-el-train-in-upper-darby-while-others-stood-around-and-did-nothing-police-say\/\">told<\/a> CBS Philadelphia at the time. \u201cSomebody should\u2019ve done something. It speaks to where we are in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch stated that a SEPTA employee boarded the train after the assault was in progress and called police, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">\u201cWithout that call, the suspect might have been able to just walk off the train and we would still be looking for him,\u201d Busch said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Busch spoke regarding the bystanders Wednesday, per the Associated Press:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span> \u201cChief (Thomas) Nestel made his best estimate that 10 people were walking through, sitting or standing near where the attack was occurring at points throughout the assault,\u201d Busch said. \u201cOur hope is that people will realize when they see this type of activity, whether they fully understand it or not, that they will push the emergency call button or call the police. There really was no way to not see it even if they didn\u2019t fully understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer told the Associated Press via email that authorities do not want witnesses to be in fear of prosecution but rather to come forward and help investigators.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPennsylvania law does not allow for the prosecution of a passenger who may have witnessed a crime,\u201d he added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jules Epstein,&nbsp;<span>\u201ca law professor and director of advocacy programs at Temple University Beasley School of Law,\u201d&nbsp;<\/span>reiterated Stollsteimer\u2019s comments regarding the state\u2019s law, the AP reports.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUnless they have a legal duty to intervene, like a parent for their child, a person cannot be prosecuted for sitting back and doing nothing,\u201d Epstein explained.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cDoing nothing may be morally wrong, but in Pennsylvania, without that special duty relationship, it is not legally wrong,\u201d said the law professor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ngoy was <a href=\"https:\/\/ujsportal.pacourts.us\/Report\/MdjDocketSheet?docketNumber=MJ-32133-CR-0000379-2021&amp;dnh=bY0caPZazrI6baQh8vhIdA%3D%3D\">charged<\/a> with rape and a slew of other sexual assault-related counts and was being held on $180,000 bail, court records show.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say they do not expect to charge passengers for failing to intervene when an illegal alien allegedly raped a woman on a suburban Philadelphia train in October. \u201cIt\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}