Yesterday, Richmond police released a recording of the 911 call made on October 24 by 16-year-old Margarita Vargas, who reported the now infamous Richmond High School gang rape.

In the call, Vargas -- who had the decency to make the call after a 16-year-old girl was beaten, robbed and raped by 10 men over a two-and-a-half-hour period during a Richmond High School homecoming dance -- tells the dispatcher that "a naked girl could be found behind the dumpsters at the school." She goes on to point out that no one wanted to call the cops.

Six suspects have been arrested in the gang rape so far: Marcelles James Peter, 17, Ari Abdallah Morales, 16, Cody Ray Smith, 15, Elvis Torrentes, 21, Manuel Ortega, 19, and Jose Carlos Montano, 18. The rape victim, it's now being reported, was a friend of one of her attackers.

Neither Richmond High School principal Julio Franco nor any of the assistant principals -- who were responsible for the the homecoming dance's lack of security, which eventually led to the gang rape -- have yet to resign.

You can listen to the 911 tape here, or read a transcript of the call here or after the jump.

911 dispatcher: “911 — Where’s your emergency?”
Margarita Vargas: “Hi, um, it’s in Richmond High School.”
911: “What’s going on?”
Vargas: “Um, there’s a girl that’s like hecka drunk, and, and she’s naked.”
911: “Where at the high school?”
Vargas: “It’s in the back, it’s, um, Emeric and Hayes.”
911: “Is she on the school property?”
Vargas: “Yeah. She’s like ... in the back, though. She’s, like, by the Dumpsters.”
911: “By the Dumpsters?”
Vargas: “Uh-huh.”
911: “Is she saying anything?”
Vargas: (talking to someone off the phone) “Um, Is she saying anything?" (talking to 911) "She’s just passed ... She’s probably intoxicated because, um, she’s naked.”
911: “Is she black or white?”
Vargas: (talking to someone off the phone) “Is she black or white or what?” (talking to 911) "Uh, we ... haven’t seen her. We heard that from, um, two of, um, our friends. We don’t want to go back there because we’re scared.”
911: “Do we know if there was anybody around her?”
Vargas: (talking to someone off the phone) “Uh, is there anybody around her?” (talking to 911) “People have passed by there, have been seeing her, but nobody wants to call the cops, so we decided to call.”
911: “OK, and how old do you think she is?”
Vargas: “Um, they say she looks like a ninth-grader, like about 15, 16 probably.”
911: “What’s your name?”
Vargas: “Um, Maggie.”
911: “OK, Maggie, we’ll get someone out there.”
Vargas: “OK, thank you.”
911: “Thank you, bye-bye.”

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