13-Year-Old South Carolina Girl's Sexual Assault Livestreamed On Facebook, Suspects Arrested

Two men were arrested Tuesday in South Carolina for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old. The incident was recorded on Facebook Live and shared dozens of times.

The North Charleston Police Department said that officers became aware of a livestream where the sexual assault of a juvenile had taken place. They launched an investigation and the victim's mother reached out to police.

Authorities met with the 13-year-old victim and her mother and were able to identify one of the suspects as 20-year-old Tasheen Walker. They later tracked him down through their investigation.

During questioning, the victim told police that she was walking to her grandmother’s house when a group of men asked her to come over to them – which she complied – and the men grabbed her and took her to an abandoned house where she was assaulted by about five individuals.

Walker is charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor, second degree. He is being held at the Al Cannon Detention Center on a $75,000 bond.

Another suspect was identified as 18-year-old Jonah Fishburne. He was also arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor, second degree.

Authorities are working on the case and it is yet to be revealed as to how much information police have about the other suspects.

Police urged the public not to share the sexual assault video of the teenager if anyone received it. The victim is underage, and the video is considered child pornography. The sharing of the video, images, or links to it, is unlawful pursuant to South Carolina Law 16-15-405 – Second Degree Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.

In another incident, two brothers in New Jersey were charged with kidnapping and sexual assault. The suspects, identified as 21-year-old Wilson Cesaire and 28-year-old Wilfrid Cesaire, were arrested May 1.

The brothers kidnapped four juvenile girls while they were walking by offering them a ride and later drugging them and sexually assaulting three of them.

According to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, the minor girls were reported missing in Millstone Township on April 22. Wilson and Wilfrid were charged with four counts each of first-degree kidnapping, fourth-degree cruelty and neglect, and fourth-degree endangering another person.