Facebook Won’t Take Down New Roast Busters Page

A new Roast Busters Facebook page has been set up, and the New Zealand police are aware of it while the social networking site itself can’t do anything about it. The old page of the notorious teen group that boasted their sexual exploits with drunk, underage girls and shamed their victims online was already taken down, but a new one has emerged.

There’s no evidence that the new page, which has already has over 1300 “likes,” was started by the members of the group themselves. It is likely that it was started by a person unconnected with the group.

“Comment your reason why you support/don’t support us, explain your reason,” the latest post on the page reads. It has over 300 replies.

The New Zealand police is aware of the new Facebook group, telling ONE News that they have already requested Facebook that all Roast Busters pages be removed.

But the page is still up and running as of the time of this writing. And by the looks of it, it would stay for a while.

One reader asked Facebook to take down the page, but the Web site doesn’t have a violation category for “sexual violence.”

“I attempted to report the page for sexual violence, which Facebook clearly doesn’t believe exists, so I chose graphic violence instead. Less than 5 minutes later, I received the response that the page had been reviewed, and it was fine,” the user told Jezebel.com.

The tipster answered back, telling Facebook, “If you bothered to look at the page you’d understand that this page is either the New Zealand’s rapists page, or someone purporting to be them. I do not believe this page was reviewed – or, given that Facebook has no ‘Sexual violence’ listing in it’s ‘violent’ category, you don’t consider rape to be an issue?’”

Police have received one formal and three informal complaints over the last two years about the group in Auckland. However, no arrests have been made yet as the police insisted that they do not have enough evidence against the members of the Roast Busters.

Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Karyn Malthus has been appointed to lead the Operation Clover, a newly-established body that will investigate the Roast Busters case. This came after the police admitted that they should have handled the case earlier and more appropriately.