Psychologists Weigh In on the Teen Who Live-Streamed Her Friend's Rape (Very disturbing)

Eighteen-year-old Marina Lonina claims she filmed her friend being sexually assaulted to prevent her from being raped. But mental health practitioners aren't buying it—and neither is the Franklin County prosecutor.

An Ohio teenager who is facing charges for allegedly live-streaming her friend's rape was too "caught up in the likes" to stop filming, or to call the police, prosecutors say.

On February 27, Marina Lonina, 18, and her friend, who was 17 at the time, met and went home with 29-year-old Raymond Boyd Gates, who allegedly began to sexually assault the younger girl. According to police, Lonina started filming the assault on her phone using the Periscope app, which streams video live in real time.

"When she was interviewed by the police, she said originally she thought that by live-streaming or taping it, it would prevent the assailant from doing what he actually was doing before her very eyes, but that she got caught up in it by the number of likes that her live stream was getting, so she continued to do it," the Franklin County prosecutor, Ron O'Brien, told reporters outside the courthouse last week.

Prosecutors say that a friend of Lonina's in another state saw the live stream and called the police.

Both Lonina and Gates, the man accused, have now been charged with kidnapping, rape, sexual battery, and pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor.

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