New York Daily News

5 busted in gang rape of girl in a Bronx apt.

- Rocco Parascando­la and Thomas Tracy

FIVE MEN have been arrested in the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in a Bronx apartment, police said Wednesday.

The alleged attack took place about 3 p.m. on Tuesday on Taylor Ave. near Archer St. in Van Nest, police sources said.

The teen told police she had met one of the five men Monday and exchanged Facebook informatio­n.

On Tuesday, she went to the man’s basement apartment, where he plied her with alcohol and marijuana, cops said.

The girl told police she passed out and woke up to a man raping her, passed out again and woke up to another man attacking her, cops said. Three other men were waiting in the wings, boasting they were next.

Based on the teen’s informatio­n, cops tracked down and arrested Airen Kellman, 23, and Touray Blackwood, 26. Both have been charged with rape.

The three other men were charged with endangerin­g the welfare of a child. Their names were not released.

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