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   Three years after the gang rape of an 11-year-old Cleveland girl   
   by two dozen young men made national headlines, the same city 46   
   miles north of Houston is grappling with the possibility of yet   
   another similar attack.   
      
   Both cases involved underaged girls, multiple young men and two   
   dilapidated, vacant homes in the poorer area of Cleveland known   
   as "the Quarters."   
      
   But Cleveland Police Chief Darrel Broussard stressed the newest   
   case "does not reach the same magnitude" of the 2010 case.   
      
   The young girl making an outcry this time is 15 — four years   
   older than the one in 2010. The legal age of consent in Texas is   
   17.   
      
   The number of alleged attackers in the latest case is less than   
   the 21 young men who have been convicted in the earlier gang   
   rape case. Police said they have four to five suspects in the   
   newest case.   
      
   No video tapes   
      
   Also, there are no lurid videotapes of the assaults recorded by   
   the attackers as occurred in the 2010 case. Those graphic tapes,   
   which went viral around the Cleveland school district, were   
   apprehended and triggered the investigation.   
      
   In the latest case, the parents of the 15-year-old girl reported   
   the crime to police on Tuesday.   
      
   "Their daughter had not been home over the weekend. They had   
   reported her as a runaway in the past but not this time," said   
   Broussard.   
      
   When the girl returned home, she told her parents what had   
   happened to her and they reported it to the police, he said.   
      
   The teenage girl was taken to a hospital for examination for   
   sexual assault and possible drugging. Police are looking into   
   allegations that she might have been given an unspecified drug   
   by a 17-year-old girl prior to the alleged assault.   
      
   'It's still early'   
      
   Broussard said results of the hospital examination are pending.   
      
   "It's still early. We are aggressively investigating the case   
   and have a number of people to interview," he said.   
      
   He said the assault was alleged to have occurred on one day and   
   not multiple instances like the 2010 case.   
      
   Since it's an ongoing investigation, Broussard said he was   
   limited on what he could release.   
      
   "I can only say we are working with the victim and her family to   
   gather all the facts and evidence that we can," he said.   
      
   In the 2010 case, seven juveniles accepted plea agreements for   
   seven-year probated sentences, while 12 adults pleaded guilty in   
   exchange for 15-year sentences. Two adults took their cases to   
   court and received life or 99-year sentences.   
      
   http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Another-girl-may-   
   have-been-gang-raped-in-Cleveland-4864500.php   
      
        
      
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