Prosecutors have just filed charges against two teenage boys who allegedly helped their 16-year-old friend rape multiple students at their school, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Misty Cox says her 15-year-old son was held down and sexually assaulted after football practice.
“Two boys held him down, a third boy pulled his own pants down and rubbed his backside and genitalia all over my son’s face,” she tells FOX13.
The alleged attack happened in October 2017 at Gunnison Valley High School in Gunnison, Utah, a small town of about 3,200 people.
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Five more victims have since come forward since a 16-year-old was charged of six counts of object rape and four counts of forcible sex abuse, according to the Tribune, while FOX13 said there were five counts of forcible sex abuse.
The investigation has revealed at least 13 suspected assaults, according to the Tribune. … The first alleged assault occurred in October 2017, according to charging documents. One assault was reported in November and December 2017, with two in January. One was reported in March and another in June. Four assaults reportedly occurred on the same day: Sept. 17.
Nine of the 13 victims were male. There are currently 349 students enrolled at the school, which means four percent them are alleged victims.
“We’re dealing with a lot of victims and a diverse [set] of victims,” said County Attorney Kevin Daniels.
Gunnison Valley police detective Carl Wimmer added, “I’ve never seen anything like this before.” Wimmer also said the school district has hired crisis counselors for students who need support.
School officials have remained quiet about the matter, aside from superintendent Kent Larsen saying the 16-year-old would not be allowed back at the school until the case has been resolved.
jaack
Sounds like the team is loaded with closeted rapists. Their use of force shows a deep insecurity of what makes a man. The school coach had to know what was going on and covered it up or tacitly approved the assaults. He should be investigated as a potential co-conspirator. If he really didn’t know, maybe he did things to NOT KNOW, which is worse!
Larry
Conservative states have the most rape and divorce and teen pregnancy. Praise “Jesus!”
mbbbjb
Do you have any proof of this assertion about conservative states?
ocahan
Last I heard, Utah also watched the most porn.
loren_1955
Compassion for the victims, but sitting here chuckling. Utah, no surprise with all of those suppressed Mormons.
KerryB
I thinks it’s pronounced ‘MORONS’.
jcoberkrom
The coach is gravely responsible for this. This is more than one bad apple. The coach may not know exactly what is happening but he sets the tone.
Fire him now!
RIGay
And it goes up to the school leadership, too!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Yet another sexuality repressed Mormon…..
MyrnaOne
Why is it that the victim is being held from school? Shouldn’t the alleged perps be the ones taken out of school?
jayceecook
The one victim mentioned here isn’t being kept from the school, the 16 year old perp is. Go back and read the article again. What you should be asking is why are the other two boys who helped him also not allowed back.
TimothyBeauchamp
Too bad they won’t name him so we can say, “We remember when!” when he becomes a Conservative Republican Supreme Court Justice!
robert_rupp
Damn you took my thought
theafricanwiththemouth
LMAO. True talk.
starkraver
The school’s name soon will be changed to Kavanaugh High School.
Mick406
Oh, this is just boys will be boys. If you ever played on a football or basketball team, things like this went on all the time in the locker room. It’s not rape. It’s called horse play. They didn’t physically hurt that boy. He got some free ‘face time’!
Greg
I wanted to go to this school, but father wouldn’t hear of it. He needed help behind the notions counter.
startenout
What a disgusting response and advocation of sexual assault. Anyone putting their genitalia on you without your consent, née while you actively struggle and are held down by two others, IS RAPE. Rape is a show of power by an assailant no matter who the victims are. You make me sick.
DHT
Your attitude is far too common among gay men…it is repulsive.
Dymension
While I disagree with Mick406, he is right in that it is not rape. According to Utah statutes, rape involves penetration. The activity described in the article falls under forcible sex abuse.
dean089
The police detective says “I’ve never seen anything like this before.” That’s because you didn’t WANT to see it. This might — emphasis on MIGHT — be an extreme case but it’s certainly nothing new.
Josh in OR
Why do these high school boys make up lies to ruin the lives of other high school boys? My son won’t go to the locker room alone, in case he gets accused of gang raping a freshman or seeing a transgender. What these false accusers need is a dose of Jesus. Maybe if the accuser hadn’t dressed so provocatively/been drunk/kept his legs closed, this wouldn’t have happened. #HimToo
/obvious sarcasm
Really, though, I hope that the aggressors get what’s coming to them, but if any of them are rich, handsome-ish and/or white, I think we all know they’ll wind up nominated for the Supreme Court in 30 years.
Robothedestroyer
Whats most sad about the above comment is for a split second I thought you where serious. Reactionists are really starting to become (highly predictable) broken records.
baggins435
I just moved back home after living in a small town in Utah for the last 18 years-moved there for a job. Some fun facts and trivia:
None of the jokes come close to the reality of the LDS church dominating the politics and policies of the state. The state legislature is called the “Churchislature” by non-LDS. The legislature won’t even consider changes to the liquor laws without closed door meetings with representatives of the LDS church. The recent and much publicized gay rights legislation was stalled until the LDS church said it approved, then suddenly it passed.
The town I lived in had the highest rate of teen pregnancies in the state when I moved there. The laws expressly forbid mentioning any form of contraception in what passed for sex ed. It was taught that sex was only acceptable between heterosexual married couples. Basically, the parents won’t teach their kids and don’t want anyone else teaching them either. A guy I worked with claimed he became sexually active at 12 trying to keep up with his older brother’s exploits. I only believed him after he said he wished he had waited.
A woman at work moved to Utah from Alabama thinking a change of culture and environment would be better for raising the granddaughter she had custody of. Then, her 12 year old granddaughter came home one day and told her there was a girl in her class who was pregnant and the girl’s mother was happy she was going to be a grandmother.
There were school districts that called Gay-Straight Alliances “sex clubs” and banned all student clubs and organizations so they wouldn’t have to allow any kids to form GSAs. You can bet that made the LGBT students even more popular.
DHT
There is no way I would let a child of mine go to a public school. I recently spoke with a man at a party who told me his nephew was being home schooled because of bullying. He said the parents did everything they were supposed to do but the school allowed it to continue. I told him that his nephew is better off, that there are a lot of studies indicating home schooled children accomplish more than their peers. A lot of other people at the party jumped in and said that he won’t learn to properly socialize. I said that I thought there were a lot of venues to teach children to socialize that are far superior to the toxic environment of public schools, and what kind of skills does someone take away from this environment anyways? I said to one very vocal proponent of public schools that he obviously had never been bullied. He countered that he had been bullied mercilessly and he learned to fight. If that is the best endorsement that someone can come up with for public schools then they need to go away.
Heywood Jablowme
Totally agree! Public schools ALWAYS find ways to blame bullying on the victim. “Snitching is bad.” (Great way to cover all the bases; the victim can’t do anything at all.) “You should stand up for yourself more.” (Whatever the f**k that means.) Nowadays they like to blame social media for making bullying a 24/7 thing instead of the 7 hr/5 day problem it was previously, and their “solution” of course is to tell victims to stay off social media so they won’t commit suicide and focus attention on the school.
kramermason
I have to take exception with the term “gay rape” in your headline. Rape is not about sexual orientation. It is power over someone and an act of violence. Male on Male rape has nothing to do with being gay. Most male on male rape is perpetrated by a heterosexual man upon another heterosexual man. Sure gay men rape other gay men and gay men on occasion rape straight men, but these are not the vast majority of rapes. This is about violence not sexual orientation. I would encourage you to change the headline of your story.
Birdbrain1963
It will be dismissed as there is probably some asshat Judge supporting the Kavanaugh/Trump defense that boys will be boys.
ohiogreg
To me it sounds like hazing gone bad!