Detroit Seeks Help After 8 Girls Raped

Detroit is enlisting parents and other volunteers to patrol the streets and escort youngsters to and from class after the rapes of eight girls since the start of the school year. About 300,000 letters have been mailed to parents, volunteers and city and school employees asking for help. “I’ve called the city of Detroit together to surround all of our children with a wall of protection as they travel to and from school every day,” Mayor Dennis Archer said in an address carried live on Detroit television stations. About 200 people responded to a similar request two weeks ago. In addition to the eight girls raped on the way to or from school, 26 have reported attempts to abduct them, though police said they had substantiated only three of those cases.