Barataria po­lice are search­ing for two men who al­leged­ly raped an 18-year-old Venezue­lan woman in the yard of an aban­doned house on Tues­day night.

The teenag­er, who lives in San Juan, had re­port­ed­ly gone out with a friend to drop off rub­ber bands for den­tal braces. She left her apart­ment around 10.30 pm.

As she walked east along the road­way, she no­ticed two men fol­low­ing her. When she reached El So­cor­ro Road near a mosque, the sus­pects—one armed with a knife—ap­proached her and an­nounced a rob­bery.

The teenag­er hand­ed over her hand­bag, which con­tained a cell­phone val­ued at $800. In­stead of let­ting her go, the men forced her to fol­low them to El So­cor­ro, where they dragged her in­to the open yard of an aban­doned apart­ment build­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the sus­pects held a knife to her neck, re­moved her cloth­ing, and then each raped her on a couch in the yard. Af­ter the as­sault, the men in­struct­ed her to leave and point­ed her to­ward the road.

The vic­tim flagged down a PH taxi and ex­plained what had hap­pened. The dri­ver took her to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion, where a Span­ish in­ter­preter was con­tact­ed to as­sist of­fi­cers with trans­lat­ing her state­ment.

Po­lice re­turned to the scene with the vic­tim, can­vassed the area, and ob­tained use­ful CCTV footage.

She was lat­er tak­en to the El So­cor­ro Health Cen­tre for a med­ical ex­am­i­na­tion, and a med­ical cer­tifi­cate was is­sued on her be­half.

The in­ter­preter has agreed to as­sist of­fi­cers in record­ing a full state­ment from the vic­tim.