She was a lamb among the jackals -- a 15-year-old girl trying to find her way home at 4:30 a.m. while four predators stalked their young prey, a court heard Thursday.

The girl, now 17, took the witness stand to testify about a gang sex attack at the hands of four young men.

Maher Fafayi, Hanten Hersi, Christian Kadima, all 22, and Warsama Youssouf, 21, have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and other related charges.

The complainant cannot be named because of a standard publication ban.

It was Aug. 11, 2013. She'd been at a party and was trying to find her way to her grandmother's house from the Blair Rd. Transitway station when four men set upon her, she said in a police interview played to the court.

One of the men slipped an arm around her shoulder and led her to a bench, demanding she perform a sex act on him. He pulled out a fat wad of cash and said he'd give her a ride home if she did what he asked.

She refused but he forced her, the court heard.

Then he led her across the Transitway overpass to a secluded alcove at a nearby office building, his arm again around her shoulder.

Security footage played in court shows the man walking with her, with the other three men dawdling and following a short distance behind.

In the police interview room -- where she gave a statement later that day -- Sgt. Jeff Webster asked how she felt.

There was a pause.

"Helpless," the girl said bleakly.

And the worst was yet to come.

She said the men crowded around her in the dark alcove, exposing themselves to her and grabbing her everywhere.

"Stop yelling, I'm gonna slit your throat," one of them told her.

They tore at her leggings and ripped off her red underwear, leaving it on the ground for police officers to find later on.

"They were all trying to touch me," she told Crown prosecutor Lisa Miles. "I felt trapped, and like I couldn't get away from this."

"I felt overpowered and scared."

Miles asked if she had consented to sexual activity.

The reply was immediate, and emphatic.

"No," the girl said.

The men left after a security guard -- alerted by an office worker who heard the girl's screams -- approached the area.

From there, it was a trip to CHEO for a rape kit and then the police interview.

Her testimony resumes Friday.

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