UK- After hundreds of viewers were able to watch the alleged gang-rape of a young British mother on the popular website YouTube, the mother is speaking out and hitting back at the site that allowed her ordeal to be broadcast to the world. The clip, which is three minutes long, was apparently filmed on a mobile phone.

The attack reportedly occurred on November 6, and was posted within hours of the attack. The video remained on the site for three months, and received more than 600 views before it was finally taken down.

The woman, 25, claims the video showed her being raped by three boys in front of her screaming children, age two and four. She lied there unconscious after being drugged while the attack was carried out.

The video was not removed until mid-February when a visitor to the site filed a complaint.

The woman said, “They were really hurting me. My daughter was crying and I could not get to her. Afterwards they called me a slag and a bitch. I felt so ashamed.

“It’s just crazy to think that someone would get a kick out of watching that – someone perverted, someone not right, someone sick.

“The worst thing about it is you can clearly hear my baby crying.

“The next day I found out there was a video and everybody tried to make out I did it on purpose.

“I don’t see why I should have to go through all this. It is just really awful.”

According to the woman, her horrific ordeal began when a female friend invited her into a neighbor’s home for a drink. The pair shared a bottle of champagne, and the mother claims she went numb and soon realized that her drink had been tampered with.

After that, she was forced to endure a 14 hour attack by three boys, aged 14 to 16. She also says that she cannot remember how she ended up back her own place.

Distraught and wanting to hold things together for the children, the woman tried to forget the entire ordeal. She finally got the courage to report the incident to police on February 13, nearly three months after the alleged attack.

The clip entitled “Mashin” has since been removed from YouTube, who described the video as a “massive violation” of the site’s rules.

But even though the video has finally been removed, the question remains why it was allowed to stay on the site for that long. Why did it take three months for the video to be deleted?

A spokesman for YouTube insisted that it is impossible to view all of the videos on the site, and that they rely on the community of viewers to report questionable content.

Scotland Yard’s rape task force confirm that they have detectives investigating the rape allegations. So far, three teenaged boys have been questioned in regards to the attack.

Times Online Reports: LONDON — YouTube is facing criticism for making it too easy for people to upload violent or sexually explicit content to the Internet after a 25-year-old mother was filmed while being raped.

A three-minute video showing the mother sexually assaulted by three boys after her drink had been spiked was uploaded soon after the incident, which took place in November.

In the clip, which was filmed with a mobile phone, the mother appears to be unconscious, with her head lolling from side to side, as she is repeatedly raped. Her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are heard crying in the background.

The mother, from South London, told The Sun that she had been put through the ordeal after drinking champagne that had been spiked with a date-rape drug.

“Three boys aged 14 to 16 did it and it was set up by two girls,” she said. “They came round with a neighbor I trusted and I had no problems with them coming in for a while.”

She said that she opened a bottle of champagne “to be social” and that within seconds of having a glass, she began to feel strange.

A video of the episode was later placed on YouTube, but the clip was quickly taken down after a viewer complained about its graphic nature. It is understood to have been seen 600 times.

“Putting (the video) on the internet was an abomination,” the mother said. “I was raped on film, and you could hear my daughter and 4-year-old son crying. I cannot understand how any Web site could show such a thing.”

A YouTube spokesman said that the site’s rules prohibited content such as pornography and gratuitous violence from being uploaded. When people see content they think is inappropriate, he said, they can flag it and it will be reviewed.

“If the content breaks our terms, then we remove it, and if a user repeatedly breaks the rules we disable their account,” the spokesman said.

A source close to YouTube said it was impossible for the site to review every video that was posted because more than 10 hours of content is uploaded every minute.

The source added that trained staff acted quickly to take down inappropriate content when it was flagged.

Since the mother came forward last month, the Metropolitan Police have begun an investigation into the incident and three teenagers — two aged 16 and one aged 14 — have so far been questioned.

YouTube has said that it cooperates with police when material relevant to an investigation is posted on the site.

Under UK law, sites that host videos posted by third parties must act “expeditiously” to disable access to them in the event of a complaint in order to avoid any liability that may result from the content appearing.

Lawyers said that in this case, there may be liability that would stem from the publication of obscene material.

“It is extremely difficult for YouTube to control this kind of content because in this instance — where you have a video that may depict a crime — there’s no technical measure the site can apply that will prevent it being posted in the first place,” said Struan Robertson, a technology lawyer with Pinsent Masons.

“The only option would be for them to review every video before it is posted and that is unrealistic. What sites like YouTube need is a good reporting mechanism which enables content to be flagged to the site once it has been posted, and YouTube operates well in this sense.”

It is not the first time YouTube has been used as a forum for posting violent content.

Last month, a set of videos appeared on the site which showed students from Hitchin Boys’ School, in Hertfordshire, apparently fighting with each other while bystanders looked on and gave them encouragement.

The footage has since been removed.