A defence prosecutor today claimed up to 28 men and boys may have been involved in the filmed gang rape of an 11-year-old girl.
At the moment only 18 suspects aged between 14 and 27 are accused of taking part in the rape last Thanksgiving in an abandoned mobile home in Cleveland, Texas.
Investigators confiscated mobile phones from some of the suspects, after it emerged videos of the alleged incident were circulated around schools, court documents showed.