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Three teenage boys gang-raped a disabled girl at a birthday party, police have said.

The alleged victim was forced into a bedroom and attacked by Chris Shon Da Vell Carter, 18, and two boys aged 15 and 14, prosecutors said.

She was left with blood stains on her clothing after the brutal assault in Duluth, Minnesota, last month.

The girl, who has special needs, was initially too scared to tell anyone and threw her clothes away.

But she eventually told her parents and made a statement to police last week.

Carter and the two boys have been charged with rape, aggravated sodomy, and false imprisonment.

Carter is also sexual battery against a child under 16, child molestation and theft by taking in connection with a separate sex assault case that happened ten days later, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

The 14 and 15-year-old boys are being charged as adults but have not yet been named.