Chicago police announced on Twitter Sunday that they had arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that had been streamed live on Facebook in March.
The boy faces felony counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, manufacturing of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography, police said. They said during a Sunday news conference that an arrest warrant had been issued for a second teenager and that they were actively searching for him.
The girl was reported missing from Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood after she went to the store and did not return. Then the girl's mother was alerted to the Facebook Live video of the attack, which she showed to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. The girl was found the next day, taken to the hospital and reunited with her family.
"Due to the graphic content that I observed, I don't want to go into the detail of what was on the video, but I want to tell you that the young men responsible, they should be ashamed of themselves," Johnson said during Sunday's news conference. "They've humiliated themselves, they've humiliated their families, and now they're going to be held accountable for what they did."
Police have said that the attack involved five or six people, and that 40 people watched the assault live on Facebook and did not call the authorities.