Investigators are also looking into whether some bystanders filmed the assault as it was taking place. Timothy Bernhardt, superintendent of the Upper Darby Police Department, was quoted by the New York Times as saying that bystanders who failed to help could face criminal charges if they recorded the incident. A final decision on potential criminal charges, he said, will rest with the Delaware County district attorney's office once it completes an investigation.
While Mr Bernhardt did not specify what charges witnesses could face, he said it would be "very difficult to bring charges against those" who saw the attack but did not help. In response to questions from the BBC, a spokesperson for the district attorney's office said that while an investigation is ongoing, "at the present time there is no expectation that charges will be brought against any passengers. By contrast, many foreign countries including Denmark, Germany and France have duty to assist statues or similar laws.
The absence of such laws here owes in part to the fact that courts have consistently ruled a person is not bound by law to help someone else even if one would think the law of common decency applied. Cevallos says as horrible as the crime may sound, only people with a specific job or relationship are required to render aid. Lifeguards, for example, are bound by their jobs to save people from drowning.
Parents are required to take care of their children. People who have endangered the welfare of others are often required to render aid. But the state cannot obligate citizens to act a certain way if they don't have a responsibility to do so. This is not the first time that people have been known to stand by and watch a crime in progress without intervening. Police: At least 40 people watched teen's sexual assault on Facebook Live.
Whether or not you were able to change the outcome of the situation, by stepping in you are helping change the way people think about their roles in preventing sexual violence. If you suspect that someone you know has been sexually assaulted, there are steps you can take to support that person. We can all take steps to increase safety on college campuses. Skip to main content. Que es la Linea de Ayuda? News accounts — and later, social psychology texts — said the victim and her screams were ignored by 38 witnesses as she was stabbed to death on a Queens street.
But while research has shown that many such witnesses do fail to intervene, in part because they assume others around them will do so, it turns out that the popular account of the Genovese case is largely urban legend. There were not in fact 38 witnesses, but many fewer, and most onlookers said they did not see or hear the full assault; many of the witnesses did call police.
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