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No one from the campus informed the security guard. The number of people increase around the crime location but none of them had informed the police. It was reported that around 10 other people were standing around the crime scene, and instead of helping the girl, they all were clicking the pictures and making videos of the incident on their mobiles.

This happened during the Homecoming dance party of the high school. This incident took place for about 2 and a half hours. This is the case of a 15 years old girl (name unknown), who was brutally raped and savagely beaten by around 10 men, on 24 October 2009. When the culprit was asked that why he committed that crime, he said that he just wanted to kill any woman that day, and when bystanders were asked that why they didn’t help the girl, they said that they didn’t want to get involved in the situation, and they assumed that someone else would help the girl. This news was published on the front of The New York Times, it was mentioned that around 37 People saw the incident but nobody came for help.

This whole incident took place in around 30 minutes. According to the witnesses, Moseley came back after around 10 minutes, stabbed Genovese and then raped her. The Genovese was crawling across the road to her apartment but nobody helped her in that situation. This scared the man for a while, and he left. Reportedly, one man looked from his window and shouted at the Moseley to stay away from the girl. A heavy machine operator named Winston Moseley stabbed the Genovese, she collapsed and screamed for help, several neighbours residing in the building heard her voice but nobody came for her help. A girl named Catherine Genovese was walking to her home after work at 3:15 am on 13 March 1964. The Kitty Genovese incident took place in the Kew Gardens, Queens, New York.

The Kitty Genovese Case is the most famous example of the bystander effect. Real-Life Examples of Bystander Effect 1. The framework of Darley and Latané method to analyse the bystanders guided the social psychologists to study the behaviour of the people in the laboratory settings. Darley and Latané proposed that with the increase in the number of people around the person in the emergency, the people become less likely to help the one in need. The phenomenon of the bystander effect was first explained by two psychologists named John Darley and Bibb Latané in 1968. The Bystander effect is a phenomenon in which people are less likely to help someone in an emergency due to the presence of the people (bystanders) around them.