2002 Queens rape

On December 19, 2002 a gang of five men living in an encampment along a railroad track in Queens, New York violently raped a 42-year-old mother of two who had been sitting on a bench with her husband when she was dragged away by the group of perpetrators. Four of the five perpetrators were in the United States illegally; three of these had been arrested multiple times.
Crime
On December 12, 2002 five young men surrounded a couple as they sat on a bench, grabbed the woman, dragged her down two staircases, down a path between two lethal third rails, and into their hideout, adjacent to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, a subway line and a commuter rail line. The hideout was so well concealed that it took police searching with trained dogs two hours to locate it. It consisted of two areas, one "little more than a mattress and a refrigerator box," the other a "piece of plywood leaning on a pole and draped with a deli awning" sheltering a mattress and sundry discarded objects.
The man was left with a concussion and a broken nose.
The woman was brutally raped repeatedly by the five perpetrators.
Rodriguez and Juvenal are members of a criminal gang.
The victim attempted to sue the railroad for negligence in allowing the encampment to exist, but was denied on appeal.
Senator Frank Padavan cited this crime as an argument for passing a bill in the New York State legislature requiring police department in New York to check the legal status of arrested persons.

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