Three high school basketball players from Tennessee are facing charges of aggravated rape and aggravated assault after allegedly attacking another teammate. Meanwhile, the school’s superintendent has canceled the remainder of the boys’ varsity basketball team season so a thorough investigation can be conducted.
The incident happened in a cabin on December 22 and involved the three older suspects and a 15-year-old freshmen. According to the victim’s grandmother, her grandson was pinned down by two of the suspects while the third ripped off the boy’s clothes and violently raped him with a pool stick.
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The injuries were so severe the victim had to be driven to a local hospital by the team’s coach. He was later transferred to another hospital in Knoxville to undergo emergency surgery. He’s currently recovering.
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As a result of the attack, the three suspects have all been kicked off the team, but the victim’s grandmother says that’s not enough. She wants them permanently expelled from the school, and she’s prepared to do whatever she must to make this happen.
“Legal actions will be taken against all negligent parties,” she threatened in a statement.
Meanwhile, school administrators are still grappling with how exactly to handle the situation.
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Superintendent Rick Smith called the whole thing a “tragedy” before canceling the remainder of the basketball season. Board Chairman Jonathan Welch added that he couldn’t even put into words how the assault has affected the community. “Tragic, horrific, none describe it,” he said.
But there are some families who say these assaults have been going on for months and that school officials have been largely ignoring them. They are accusing the school over trying to cover up what the local D.A.’s office calls “an ongoing pattern of assaults allegedly committed under the guise of hazing.”
The D.A.’s office says it is now investigating more reports made by other freshmen who say they assaulted by older teammates prior to the incident in December.
The accused teens are scheduled to appear in court on January 26.
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h/t: CNN
rand503
Criminal charges and then civil lawsuits agains the perps and the school. Maybe then they won’t look the other way when someone is violently attacked. This isn’t even rape — it’s just a plain old beating.
Lvng1Tor
Just sitting here waiting for the first a@@hole to say something like “isn’t that everyone’s porn fantasy” No it is not BTW.
DarkZephyr
@Lvng1Tor: They raped him with a pool stick, that has certainly never been a fantasy of mine.
youarekiddingme
How fucked up do you have to be as a teenager to get two other guys to hold down a little freshman kid, rip his clothes off and ram a pool cue up his ass…and call it hazing? What kind of fucked up “fraternity” is that?
Can you imagine how that kid screamed as they were injuring him so bad that he needed surgery? That’s nothing less than torture!
BlogShag
I wouldnt have pressed charges. I would have had a big smile on my face wanting more
NoCagada
@BlogShag: While you play with your new hole from your colostomy bag…don’t spill your poppers in there…
UltimateSin
No means no. Or is it no, stop, to the left. I can never remember which.
youarekiddingme
@UltimateSin:@BlogShag: Lets shove a baseball bat with spikes up your ass and see which way you want it. Idiots!
Kieran
This sounds more like sadistic sexual torture than rape.
Scribe38
Why aren’t these “kids” in fucking jail? What the hell is up with this they are off the team b.s.?
UltimateSin
@youarekiddingme: just make sure you spit on it first. Love me that hillbilly lube.
Goforit
@BlogShag: YOU FUCKING HEARTLESS PIG. Your mother must be so proud.
throwslikeagirl
Horrific. The three young men should be tried as adults and imprisoned. Can you imagine what would happen if the 15 year-old was a girl? Imagine this happening to your son. I’d like to see the ACLU or another high-profile group as the boy’s attorneys. Absolutely disgusting. Anything less than jail time smacks of homophobia. Even so, this isn’t a gay thing. It’s brutal torture, and could have been murder.
Leonard Woodrow
Slam the ignorant bastards in jail and keep them there for as long as it takes, to protect other innocent victims.
And if the university has knowingly allowed this type of juvenile delinquency, replace those in charge with somebody who has more intelligence and common sense.
gaym50ish
Kicked off the team? Not even expelled from school yet? Why aren’t these guys in jail already? And why is it the school district that is “grappling with how to handle the situation”? Why isn’t the district attorney dealing with it?
Dave Downunder
@Lvng1Tor: News flash. That person was you.
cancorv
@gaym50ish: There are too many things that schools accept as their responsibility. This is a good example of where it needs to be handled by the Law.
youarekiddingme
@UltimateSin: Hey, Warped One…got a great place for you to try out your “idea”…prison! With the rest of the demented freaks!
Giancarlo85
Some may say “I don’t think this story is real” and so forth… well this one has the evidence that point that a serious and violent assault did in fact happen. The evidence is all there.
This is one that needs to be prosecuted to the maximum potential of the law. I would even try the players as adults.
@youarekiddingme: You can’t fix a moron. UltimateSin is a big idiot.
oddchild1
Remember kids; there’s no such thing as rape culture; just ignore that in our society it is acceptable for media and everyone to turn male rape into a joke or a punchline.
Nahald
Basketball players from Tennessee….um….isn’t this state supposed to be like “Christian Central” ?
connorlarkin19
Eastern Tennessee is part of the Appalachian Ulster Protestant hillbilly culture with ‘Deliverance’ characters, Pentecostal faith healers and rattlesnake-handling Baptist preachers.
GayEGO
Hmmmm…….now what gender are these basketball players?
Mack
I’ve been following this situation on other sites for the last couple of days. In one of the comment sections one person was defending the three criminals. She was stating that they shouldn’t be sent to prison because it might ruin their lives and they might be raped. I guess the what happened to the victim wasn’t important to her.
Billysees
@throwslikeagirl:
” Horrific…this isn’t a gay thing. It’s brutal torture, and could have been murder. ”
This requires good legal advice. Only the payment of a huge settlement, awarded to the victim can help, but only help deter this from happening again. The loss of money ‘as compensation’ is the ‘only thing’ that’ll encourage the authorities to act.
Alan down in Florida
@BlogShag: Has anyone told you lately you’re an idiot? No? Consider yourself told.
Giancarlo85
@Mack: They are basketball players and they matter more than the victim. Asides that girl probably is a republican… according to the republican party, spouses can’t be raped by their husbands and women are inferior.
I would try these basketball players as adults. Simply put. They were probably pretty close to 18 anyways (I’m guessing most of them were seniors).
http://heavy.com/news/2016/01/ooltewah-high-school-tennessee-basketball-team-rape-hazing-pool-stick-coach-andre-montgomery-suspended-season-charges-names-timeline/
This is more facts into this. The fact is these were older boys on the team going after younger boys. They were probably pretty close to 18. The coach did little to stop it asides a verbal warning that made it worse.
I say throw the book at them. Charge them as adults. They already destroyed a guy’s life. They say he has nightmares and probably will suffer from PTSD as a result of the attack.
Anybody who defends this sort of behavior should be committed to a mental hospital.
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: “They are basketball players and they matter more than the victim.” – At least according to that idiot you saw defending them.
I think the victim needs to be respected and given some justice for what he had to suffer.
The injuries he suffered could have led his death. Would the answers by blogshag and ultimatesin be the same if this was a case of homicide?
echofro
Sadly this story sounded familiar to me. This was in the news in the Burlington VT area last year.http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/highschool/2014/08/20/football-team-hazing/14331163/
corey
Well at last they stopped calling “hazing” for once!
corey
@Giancarlo85: and these guys are predators…..it doesn’t stop just here, they probably have a history of abusing others, and will in the future of they themselves don’t seek help, NOT SAYING THEY ARE THE VICTIMS, it just concerns me that they have done this before, will again in the future, and probably have abused some animals too.
Giancarlo85
@corey: Well there are reports that they have indeed done this in the past and little was done about it. In fact school administrators have been accused of covering up the crimes.
joeyty
@connorlarkin19: The basketball team looks more ghetto than hillbilly.
timmycrawford1967
@Leonard Woodrow: This wasn’t a university. It was a high school.
timmycrawford1967
My heart, love, thoughts and prayers go out to the victim of this horrific, senseless and violent act. Makes absolutely no sense.
JamJewel
Because they are white, their lawyers got them charged as juveniles to protect their identities. Typical!