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FOXNews One of seven women who were assaulted — and videotaped — Sunday in New York's Central Park

The mother of a 16-year-old Long Island girl who was attacked with a female friend has complained that police officers did nothing to help her daughter when the teenager first told the police she had been knocked down and robbed. A second officer, the mother told the New York Times, directed the girls to an ambulance.

A second victim, Peyton Bryant, said she complained about the out-of-control mob three times to three different police officers Sunday evening, but that police ignored her each time. Bryant was rollerblading through the park around 6:15 p.m. Sunday when a group of about 50 men doused her with beer and water, dragged her to the ground and began ripping off her shorts. After about five minutes, Bryant was rescued by someone in the crowd, the Times reported.

Police arrested and charged two men, David Rowe, 24, of Hempstead, and Tremayne Bain, 23, of Brooklyn, with robbery and sexual abuse, but are still looking for the other assailants. They are being held on $10,000 bail each. The suspects were identified by another victim, an 18-year-old English tourist who was viciously assaulted, fondled and robbed of $200.

FOXNews Some victims allege they complained several times to police but no action was taken to stop the attacks

The gang of about 50 men smelled of alcohol and marijuana, the victims reported, and were squirting people with water guns filled with water and beer, the victims reported. The attacks occurred on Central Park South, near the tony Plaza hotel and the famous Central Park Zoo, following the National Puerto Rican Day Parade.

"They were trying to pull my top up, and at the same time guys were trying to pull my shorts down," the English tourist told WPIX-TV on Monday. "I was touched everywhere, and it was really humiliating. There must have been 14 guys touching me, just trying to take my clothes off."

Police eventually did come to the rescue of a young French couple on their honeymoon when the gang restrained the husband while they stripped the wife naked and stole her jewelry. The couple fled down Central Park South until they found a police officer. At that time, police called for reinforcements.

Suspects were being identified by amateur videotapes from the cameras of bystanders.

The assaults came on a particularly violent weekend in New York City, during which six people were killed and 59 others stabbed or shot as temperatures soared past 90 degrees Saturday and Sunday.

But Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police commissioner Howard Safir were quick to defend the city's crime rate and the performance of the police.

"It's unrealistic to assume that police officers can be everywhere at every time, at all times, particularly when they are dealing with a parade," Giuliani said, pointing out that the crime rate in Central Park had dropped dramatically.

"If I put 10,000 cops in Central Park, we couldn't cover every single area," Safir said.

— The Associated Press contributed to this report

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