Gang Rape Good Samaritan Speaks

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An 18-year-old mother from Richmond, Calif., has the distinction of being the only person of dozens who knew about the ongoing gang rape of a 15-year-old to actually alert the police.

For more than two hours, the victim was raped by a group of young men after leaving a high school dance. As many as 20 people stood and watched the ordeal, some even taking pictures, police said.

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According to ABC News affiliate KGO-TV, Margarita Vargas, a mother and former student at Richmond High School, was at home watching television when her brother-in-law arrived home from a dance at the school. He told her that a girl was being raped.

"He was like, 'I'm scared,' and I'm like, 'Well, we should call the cops because that's the thing to do,'" Vargas told KGO. "I didn't think about it twice. I immediately grabbed the phone and said, 'I'm gonna call the cops.' Because that's something I wouldn't want anybody to go through, [and] if I was in that situation, I would want someone to do the same for me."

After making the call, Vargas went to the school to make sure police were responding, KGO said.

Vargas credits leadership classes taken at Richmond High with teaching her to know the right thing to do in the situation.

So far six suspects have been charged in the rape, three of them minors.