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Gregory Leary
Denver for News
The girl's own 15-year-old stepsister sold her like a prostitute at the party, police said. 
Protesters gather outside a vacant apartment 13C at Rowan Towers in Trenton, N.J., in protest of the recent gang rape of a 7-year-old girl in the apartment.
The developments followed an intense, weeklong inquiry into what occurred on March 28 in a 13th-floor apartment at the Rowan Towers complex on West State Street, near the State Capitol. Officials said they expected to make more arrests in the coming days.
Investigators arrested one man, Gregory Joseph Leary, 20, of Trenton, on Thursday and charged him with raping the 15-year-old girl, whom the authorities did not identify. Another man Tiemear Lewis, 19, of Trenton, was also charged in the case, officials said.
Joseph L. Bocchini Jr., the Mercer County prosecutor, said his office would likely seek to try at least one of three juveniles who were charged, ages 17, 14 and 13, in adult court.
But the 15-year-old girl may have been more than a victim, the authorities said.
She also was arrested this week on aggravated sexual assault and other charges “for her role in allowing her 7-year-old sister to be sexually assaulted,” the police said in a statement. The girl was remanded to the Mercer County Youth Detention Center.
Trenton officials said that the 15-year-old is accused of first having sex for money herself, then accepting cash to let men touch the 7-year-old. That touching then led to rape by multiple men, according to the investigation, which is continuing, officials said.
At a news conference at the city’s police headquarters on Saturday evening, Mayor Douglas H. Palmer of Trenton said: “Good people came forward to try and get justice for this 7-year-old angel, who was brutally gang-raped by pedophile animals. Everyone that was responsible is still not arrested. Police won’t rest until we get every one.”
Officials said the two sisters went together to a party in the high-rise, where they were both assaulted.
The 7-year-old girl told the police she knew the party was trouble, but she went because she wanted to protect her sister, Mr. Palmer said. Both girls had been on the blotters of various child welfare services, he said.
The girls had been reported missing to the Trenton police at the time of the episode, Mr. Bocchini said.
Mr. Palmer said the 7-year-old met him at his office on Thursday, and he gave her a stuffed Easter bunny. But the family will soon be moved out of the area, he said, because “she will be stigmatized.”
Mr. Palmer said the girl told him: “Everybody’s staring at me. They know it’s me.”
Two adults and three juveniles were arrested Saturday for the gang rape of a 7-year-old Trenton, N.J. girl who was sold like a prostitute by her stepsister, cops said.
The horrible crime happened at a crowded apartment last Sunday. The teen left the girl unattended while she had sex for money with several men, cops said.
After she was done, the teen told her stepsister to let the men touch her.
"It went from touching to straight out assault and rape," Trenton Police Capt. Joseph Juniak said at the time. "They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone."
The stepsister was charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes.
Details of Saturday's arrests were not immediately available.
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