FLINT, MI - Four alleged east side gang members are facing over 40 collective felony charges for allegedly taking turns raping and then tattooing a 13-year-old girl with gang insignia in 2014.

Jacob Yrles, Anthony Bunn, Terry Taylor and Steven Erwin Washburn -- all accused members of the Insane Spanish Cobras gang -- appeared in orange jail jumpsuits and shackles before Genesee County District Judge David Goggins on Wednesday, May 17.

After the nearly five-hour exam, Goggins determined that Yrles, Bunn, Taylor and Washburn -- ages 19, 18, 23 and 26, respectively -- will head toward trial on multiple gang, sexual assault and gun charges, including:

Five counts of first-degree criminal sexual assault (multiple variables)

Gang membership

Gang recruitment

Unlawful imprisonment

Assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder

Carrying a concealed weapon.

Bunn also faces an additional charge of felony firearm. All four Flint men face the possibility of a life sentence in prison.

According to testimony from the girl, the sexual assault and tattooing took place over two days during the summer of 2014, when she was 13 years old.

MLive and The Flint Journal typically do not identify alleged victims of sexual assault.

A self-described "loner" who had run away from home, the girl testified that she was "looking for a connection" and found herself on Flint's east side. Through a friend, she said she met Yrles, Bunn, Taylor and Washburn at a party.

She testified that she turned down the group's offer to join the Insane Spanish Cobras, which involved "rolling the dice" -- a gang initiation method that requires the recruit to have sex with the number of gang members rolled on a die.

Leaving the party, the five drove to a liquor store before traveling to a home on Franklin Street in Flint. In the car, the girl testified that Bunn brandished a handgun before placing it back in his pants.

When the group arrived at the home, the girl testified she got a "gut feeling" that something bad was about to happen when the four men allegedly huddled a yard away from her, talking in whispers.

Suddenly, she said Yrles grabbed her hand, leading her into the home's garage where he proceeded to tie a green bandana over her eyes and sexually assault her.

As Yrles left the garage, Bunn entered, telling her "you're not done yet," before stuffing his handgun under a couch cushion in the garage, she testified. With a green bandana covering his nose and mouth, Bunn then proceeded to sexually assault her, she said.

Taylor was next, then Washburn.

One by one and wearing bandana masks, the four accused gang members assaulted the girl, she testified.

"I did not say yes and I was too scared to say no," she said in court. "I got the feeling there was no saying 'no.'"

The next day, the four alleged gang members took the girl to Yrles' bedroom, where they began to tattoo her hips -- on the left, a gang name she said they assigned to her, and on the right, the beginning of a three-point diamond Cobra insignia.

On her back, she said they drew two more large gang-related tattoos.

Calling the forced tattooing "horrendous," Goggins upheld prosecutors' assault charges against the gang members.

Defense attorneys for the four men questioned the girl on why she chose to "hang out" with the men the day after the alleged rape.

"I think it's called a trauma bond," she said. "I didn't have people who would stand by my side at the time."

Defense attorneys for the four men also grilled the girl on why she decided to come forward with the allegations over two years after she claims they occurred. She answered that the events were traumatic and that it took her nearly a year to come forward to anyone -- including her sisters -- about what happened.

In his closing arguments, Yrles' attorney, Matthew Norwood, argued that the lapse in time between the alleged incidents and the girl coming forward gave her "significant credibility issues."

All four men are currently being held without bond in the Genesee County Jail.

Circuit court dates for the four have yet to be scheduled.