Three men and boy face rape charges of teen girls

Three men and a boy have been charged with more than 50 offences after allegedly drugging and raping three teenage girls at a party in Brisbane last year.

Three teenage girls were allegedly drugged and raped by three men and a boy in a Brisbane apartment after they were invited to a party via Instagram and Snapchat.

The men, aged 24, 21 and 20 and a boy, 16, are facing more than 50 charges, including the alleged rapes.

Detective will allege one of the males invited the three juvenile girls to attend a party in Toowong, via social media, before they were drugged and sexually assaulted multiple times.

The girls were allegedly given alcohol and toxicology results for one of the girls also tested positive to cannabis.

It’s unclear how many people were at the apartment on December 19.

Police raided homes in South Brisbane on Thursday and the men and the boy were arrested by detectives, who were helped by the dog squad, tactical crime squad and other specialist police.

Officers seized their belongings and mobile devices.

The men and the boy have each been charged with seven counts of rape, three counts of administering a stupefying drug to commit rape, two counts of sexual assault, contravene direction and drug offences.

The charges against the three men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were mentioned in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday.

Magistrate Sue Ganasan ordered blood and urine samples to be taken from two of the men for disease tests.

There was no bail application for one of the men and he was remanded in custody, with his case to be mentioned on April 27.

Another man, who was remanded in custody, will make a bail application in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

A third man was refused bail and was remanded in custody. He is also charged with contravening an order about information necessary to address information stored electronically for refusing to give his mobile phone password. His case will be mentioned on April 27.

A lawyer for that man said the girls had willingly gone to the party and had left the apartment at one stage and then returned.

Police prosecutor Josh Kelly said just because the girls left the apartment with the males and returned, it was not an indication of consent.

Magistrate Ganasan took into account the man’s refusal to give police his mobile phone password before refusing to allow bail.

The arrests followed an operation codenamed Tango Whirlpool set up by police in December last year.

Police have appealed for anyone with further information relating to the matter or victims of similar incidents to come forward.