A group of female friends of New Zealand's 'Roast Buster' group sex gang have defended them for 'just being teens' Female friends of the 'Roast Busters' have defended the actions of the boys. Courtesy 3News THEY'RE not rapists. They're cool dudes. They can make really dumb decisions, but they're being teenagers. With these words, female friends of the 'Roast Buster' boys at the centre of a New Zealand Facebook group-sex shaming scandal have come to their defence. The girls, aged between 16 and 19, say the boys just want to have fun and that their social media sexual boasting wasn't anything unusual - and nor was "drunken group sex." People send it on Snapchat, who cares ... it's normal in west Auckland, its normal here ... Not for everybody though, it's just the young ones 13- to 15-year-olds - that's what they do. The girls, who did not wish to be named, told New Zealand's 3 News that the rest was just "bravado." What they are doing is very wrong... they should not have put this on Facebook. They wanted to be famous, they got their fame but in the worst possible way," they said. They're not rapists, they're cool dudes. A group of girls have come out in defence of New Zealand's "Roast Busters" teen group-sex gang. People know that they are Roast Busters and they go hang out with them and do stuff... but they're not rapists, they're cool dudes. A girl who identified herself as one of the boys' ex-girlfriend defended their actions online. Of course it wasn't okay! I know that! But the girls that did it gave them consent and even went back for more!" she wrote. The girls always agreed to it. And a social media posts by one of the boys reveals their attitude: "Go ahead, Call the cops. They can't un-rape you," one message reads. But the group of six boys, whose group-sex antics include naming and shaming their "conquests" on a public Facebook website were exposed at the weekend, are being accused of enticing underage girls into an alcoholic stupor before sexually assaulting them. One is the son of Matrix star Anthony Ray Parker. Another is the son of a local police officer. Scandal surrounds the apparent inaction of police over complaints that young girls may have been raped, some of which date back to 2011. A member of the Parker family yesterday reportedly complained that the family had been receiving death threats. Police quickly acted to offer protection. Two of the six-strong "Roast Buster" teenage boys and the website upon which they boasted of their sexual "conquests." Waitemata police district commander Superintendent Bill Searle said he would give protection to the teenage boys if threats against them continued. "If the situation they find themselves in warranted us to take action, then we would, irrespective of who they are or what they may have been involved in," he said. The New Zealand Herald reports that an independent senior police officer has now been assigned to the Roast Busters case as "a fresh set of eyes." Police continue to insist they cannot act without a formal statement being made by at least one alleged victim. All suggestions of a "cover-up" as the gang involved the son of a police officer are being strongly denied. "Police take any allegations of criminal offending by any of its officers or their families extremely seriously... police will not hesitate to thoroughly investigate staff facing allegations of a criminal nature and will put them before the court if there is a case to answer," Superintendent Searle said. New Zealand police also yesterday closed a Facebook copycat page from a group claiming to the "Mount Albert chapter" of the Roast Busters gang. It was shut down shortly after Mount Albert Grammar school raised complaints about links to their campus.