Four high school football players in Maryland are accused of raping several of their teammates with a broken broom handle during a homophobic hazing that is being described as “astonishingly cruel”, the Washington Post reports.
The alleged attacks happened at Damascus High School in the town of Damascus, an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The four athletes, all aged 15, are being charged as adults with one count of first-degree rape, three counts of attempted rape, and one count of conspiracy to commit rape.
A fifth student was originally one of the victims but later joined the gang of rapists to help assault at least one other teammate; he is being charged as a juvenile.
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According to prosectors, one of the alleged victims says he was held him down as his pants were ripped off his body and a broomstick “was inserted into his anus a few inches.”
Two other victims say were also attacked, but both managed to fight off their assailants before they “got the broom.”
A fourth victim claims the broomstick, which he described as a wooden handle with a “cut on the tip of it” said he was repeatedly “stabbed” in the anus. When he tried to fight off his attackers, they told him it was just a team “tradition” from “generations ago.”
“Each defendant played a significant role in carrying out their plan to sexually assault the victims in this case,” the state’s attorney Peter Feeney said in court this week.
“Whether it was pushing, punching, stomping, holding down, tackling or wielding the broom. The crimes could only have been committed with the active participation of each defendant.”
Feeney went on to call the attacks “astonishingly cruel.”
All of the accused assailants were released Tuesday on $20,000 bond each, according to court records.
Montgomery County Public School District Superintendent Jack Smith confirmed that the district is working with police and offering support to students who have been hurt.
“Our thoughts are with the students, staff and all who have been affected,” Smith says.
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Repressed closet cases acting out their jerk off fantasies…..
Its 2018 for chrisakes. You don’t have to rip up some poor kids rectum to do what you want to do with your dick…
SFHarry
Why so quick to claim them as one of our own?
jjose712
I doubt it.
This is clearly a sexual asault but i doubt it’s sexually motivated. It’s more like a hazing prank going way too far
youarekiddingme
Plays Well With Others, Forcible Rape is NOT “sexual fantasy.” Rape in general is not sexual…it’s about power over the victim. Just because it’s male-on-male and it may be one of YOUR FANTASIES let’s not attribute it to someone else. The facts are that most underage same sex rape is committed by HETEROSEXUAL MALES!
Brian
Most bigots are straight. After all, most *people* are straight.
Also consider how homophobic the NFL players and owners are. It’s not as if the whole league is secretly gay. It’s the opposite. The league is disproportionately straight.
Wicked Dickie
“…When he tried to fight off his attackers, they told him it was just a team “tradition” from “generations ago.” Pillaging, lynching and raping used to be a ‘tradition’ also. Stupid kids.
joelk57
Send them all to county lock up for 3 years, when they come out they will know what the real thing feels like first hand and it’s what they all deserve.
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Prax07
This was a tradition in my high school as well. Everyone knew about it, but no one ever talked about it much. It was written off as jocks being jocks and an initiation for new players. Just another reason I never wanted any part of sports in school.
Bob LaBlah
I heard about this on CBS this morning. I just went over to the Washington Post website (I didnt click on the link) and there is nothing. The article has vanished like a fart in the wind off of their website. I’ll bet they all have videos on the web fooling around half naked in their jockstraps and bvd’s and j/o videos. Check their phones for tumblr and xtube accounts.
Catholicslutbox
AGAIN?! I could’ve sworn I read about earlier this year…and last..
I blame 13 reasons why..
startenout
You blame the second season of a show that many people didn’t watch unless the subscribe to Netflix for a “tradition” of rape that has been going on around the country for decades? That seems wrong. I remember when there was a local case of a mentally challenged girl who was raped by football players in the same manner long before the book was even written.
Brian
Yes. Children are watching Netflix, then jumping into time machines, and raping people in the past. That’s obviously the explanation.
SFHarry
There is a reason we charge people as juveniles — it’s because they are juveniles. Mob mentality is strong in 15 year olds and they don’t always make the smartest decisions. This was horrible and cruel but charging them as adults is just wrong. Imagine if this was a couple of 35 year old men who jumped a random guy coming out of a restaurant and raping them with a broom. Doesn’t that seem different to anyone else?
It was bad behavior but charge them as juveniles and punish them as juveniles.
Clay83
Seriously! Your way of thinking has been so warped by your religious claptrap that you cant see that this is a seirous crime. In todays world poeple are far more infirmed as to what is going on and these kids should know better! Rather keep quiet when you are going to be a criminal sympathiser
Charlie in Charge
Yes, this always astounds me. They are not adults.
rand503
I agree. If they really want convictions, they should try them all as black men, since we all know that black men get a higher conviction rate than white men. I mean, if you can magically make them adults just to get a higher sentence, you can surely magically make them black.
Creamsicle
I agree that this is different from the scenario you described. It is much worse. You know why this is worse? This was serial assault. Given their behavior and their reasoning, they were never going to stop ritually raping their teammates. Who knows how many men have been traumatized by this alleged tradition?
These boys need to be tried as adults because they conspired to rape multiple peers. That requires a level of premeditation and targetting that makes what they did even scarier than a group of random bogeymen attacking a restaurant patron for no discernible reason.
Brian
Cops and DAs plan it this way. Charge them for multiple versions of the same crime, and scare them so much that they plead out. If they’re facing 8 charges as adults, they might plead down to 2 charges as a juvenile. (On the other hand, if the DA only began with 1 charge as a juvenile, there would be less to negotiate with.)
And Randy, they don’t need to be “magically” black. They are black.
cancorv
I agree SFH. There is no reason to change aspects of a law because the crime was “astonishingly cruel”. People are charged with breaking the law when the crime is trivial, like drinking beer at a certain age and traffic infringements. They get charged for breaking a law not for doing something bad. When juveniles do bad stuff, they should be charged as juveniles. And I hope they are seriously punished for this and that such generations old traditions come to an immediate end everywhere.
youarekiddingme
Cancorv, “Drinking beer at a certain age” is not a “crime” but a status offense…traffic infringements are not crimes but Civil Infractions. HUGE DIFFERENCE between those examples and forcible anal penetration with an object while being held down by a group!
Game-a-saurus
Good. I know a group of people who went to this school around 15 years ago and they had to be told not to say the three letter f word around me when I would hang out with one of my friends who was in that group.
Also : please stop trying to “insult” the criminals by accusing them of being gay. Straight people can be homophobic and can commit sexual assault against people of the same sex. Stop giving straight men a get out of jail free card when it comes to homophobic behaviour. Stop idolizing them. Stop worshipping them. If every homophobic male is secretly gay, then every male misogynist is straight by the same logic.
draven
Did anyone see the “gay” story line on ABC’s “Rookie Cop” on Wednesday night at 10:00pm? There’s no talk of it no anywhere.
It was good. I found it interesting that no one was even mentioning it. I couldn’t find one article on it story line. All they talked about was the story line “Hawke”. A out of control cop that’s a member of the force. Hmmm
draven
Not one article on the gay storyline on Rookie Cop on ABC the other night. Excuse typo in prior comment before this one. : )
Bob LaBlah
Draven, since the majority of us didn’t see the episode but you obviously did why not give us more detail what the story line was about other than being gay themed. What was the plot and outcome? Thank you.