The 20-something victim told police she was attacked about 2 a.m. Saturday while she was at a party inside a fraternity house on the 3500 block of Locust Walk, the university’s main pedestrian thoroughfare, said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore.
A source identified the fraternity house as that of Phi Kappa Sigma.
According to Vanore, Philadelphia police became involved after the victim sought treatment at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania later on Saturday.
Investigators from the police Special Victims Unit have interviewed a number of people who attended the party in an attempt to build an accurate description of the assailant, Vanore said.
In a statement addressing the incident, university officials wrote in part: “The university takes this matter very seriously and is cooperating fully with the Philadelphia police investigation.
“The university is offering support services to our student. Police have indicated that the situation poses no obvious danger to other members of the university community.”
Several hours before the Penn student was attacked, a teenager was raped inside her East Mt. Airy home, police said.
The 15-year-old victim was home alone about 11:30 p.m. Friday when she heard a noise on the first floor of her house on Blakemore Street near Montana, said Lt. Tom McDevitt, of the Special Victims Unit.
When the girl ventured downstairs to investigate the noise, a man who entered through the front door reached out, grabbed her and forced her to a sofa where he raped her, McDevitt said.
The living room was dark, so the victim was unable to focus on the features of her attacker, McDevitt said.
About 12:30 a.m. Friday, a 21-year-old woman was confronted by three men on Duval Street near Chew Avenue, in East Germantown, after she left a friend’s house.
The woman tried to ignore the men, McDevitt said, but they forced her into a nearby alley at knifepoint. Two of the thugs then raped her.
The victim told police one attacker was a thin, 5-foot-7 black man in his late 20s with braids and a beard. He wore black pants, a white T-shirt and Timberland boots.
Police said the second man was a light-complected, 5-foot-8 black man in his 20s. He had a beard, mustache and sideburns, and wore cargo pants and Timberland boots.
The third assailant was a light-complected black man in his mid-20s, who had a beard, mustache, braids and a black and white Dickies shirt.
Tipsters can contact SVU at 215-685-3251.
Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.
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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.
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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.
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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.
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