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When women envision their worst nightmares of rape, this is the type of extreme and rare horror they imagine: in November 2014, a 17-year-old girl was standing at a bus stop in Northeast Calgary when she was approached by two men. They were carrying shovels.

They asked her for directions before forcing her into an alley. There, she was repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to perform oral sex.

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The men, who were brothers, told her to come with them, threatening to kill her if she didn’t. They took her to their nearby home where the raping continued for eight hours. The girlfriend and child of one of the brothers were in the house during the ordeal. So was their father. After taking drugs, believed to be crack, the Grade 12 student managed to escape the home. She wrote on her hand the address and the name of one of her attackers.

She later took police to the address and identified the faces of her attackers in a photo.