It is ‘simply not true’ that witnesses took cellphone videos of train rape instead of calling police, district attorney in Philadelphia says

Riders walk past SEPTA’s Market Frankford Line stop at 15th Street in Philadelphia. — The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

PHILADELPHIA: The Delaware County district attorney on Oct 21 said it was “simply not true” that Septa (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) passengers last week took cellphone videos of a man raping a woman on the train instead of deciding to intervene or call police.

Jack Stollsteimer, the county’s top prosecutor, said that although one person did take video of part of the longer overall interaction between the accused assailant, Fiston Ngoy, 35, and the victim, it was incorrect to suggest that groups of bystanders on the train were “callously sitting there filming (the rape) and didn’t act”, the prosecutor said.