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Fifth Suspect Avoids Jail Time in Texas High-School Football Mass Rape Case
Will Sommer RetweetedEXCLUSIVE: A fifth suspect agreed to a plea deal this week and will avoid jail time in the La Vernia mass rape case. Robert Olivarez Jr allegedly raped a 16-year-old with the threaded end of a CO2 tank during an “initiation” to the football team.
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Fifth Suspect Avoids Jail Time in Texas High-School Football Mass Rape Case
Authorities say high-school athletes used deodorant bottles, cardboard rods, flashlights, and bats to sodomize 10 of their teammates. So far, no one has spent time behind bars.
Olivia Messer
Reporter
Updated 10.24.19 7:34PM ET / Published 10.24.19 11:29AM ET
A fifth suspect will avoid jail time for his alleged role in the mass rape case that victimized 10 high school boys and has for years roiled the tiny town of La Vernia, Texas, just 30 miles southeast of San Antonio.
Robert Olivarez Jr. pleaded no-contest to a felony charge of unlawful restraint on Monday and was sentenced to five years deferred adjudication, which often includes community service and probation but does not involve jail time, the Texas Attorney General’s Office confirmed on Thursday. Unlike a guilty plea, a no-contest plea is an acceptance of the court’s punishment without an admission of guilt. So far, none of the former students who were allegedly involved in the mass rapes have been sentenced to time behind bars.
Olivarez, then 17, was accused of holding down a 16-year-old boy on a bed while sodomizing him with the threaded end of a carbon-dioxide tank as part of a November 2016 “initiation” to the varsity football team, according to an affidavit filed in his arrest.
Olivarez and two others were at a home off-campus when they shouted “Get him!” and allegedly pinned the 16-year-old face down on the bed and attacked him, The Daily Beast previously reported.
“The victim struggled to stop the assault, but was overpowered by the four suspects and pinned down where he could not move,” La Vernia police Sgt. Donald Keil wrote in the affidavit.
Four other teens pleaded no contest and were sentenced to probation earlier this month for their alleged roles in the mass rapes, which were reported by The Daily Beast in March 2017. That month, 13 La Vernia High School students—many of them varsity athletes on the football and basketball teams—were arrested over allegations that they sodomized their younger teammates using deodorant bottles, cardboard rods, flashlights, soda bottles, pipes, and baseball bats.
The assaults became so routine, according to mothers of purported victims and court documents, that boys who were promoted to varsity teams began showering with underwear on in an effort to deter their assailants. There was so much ripped, bloody underwear shoved down drains that it clogged the pipes in the locker room, two La Vernia mothers told The Daily Beast in 2017.
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Authorities say high-school athletes used deodorant bottles, cardboard rods, flashlights, and bats to sodomize 10 of their teammates. So far, no one has spent time behind bars.
Olivia Messer
Reporter
Updated 10.24.19 7:34PM ET / Published 10.24.19 11:29AM ET
A fifth suspect will avoid jail time for his alleged role in the mass rape case that victimized 10 high school boys and has for years roiled the tiny town of La Vernia, Texas, just 30 miles southeast of San Antonio.
Robert Olivarez Jr. pleaded no-contest to a felony charge of unlawful restraint on Monday and was sentenced to five years deferred adjudication, which often includes community service and probation but does not involve jail time, the Texas Attorney General’s Office confirmed on Thursday. Unlike a guilty plea, a no-contest plea is an acceptance of the court’s punishment without an admission of guilt. So far, none of the former students who were allegedly involved in the mass rapes have been sentenced to time behind bars.
Olivarez, then 17, was accused of holding down a 16-year-old boy on a bed while sodomizing him with the threaded end of a carbon-dioxide tank as part of a November 2016 “initiation” to the varsity football team, according to an affidavit filed in his arrest.
Olivarez and two others were at a home off-campus when they shouted “Get him!” and allegedly pinned the 16-year-old face down on the bed and attacked him, The Daily Beast previously reported.
“The victim struggled to stop the assault, but was overpowered by the four suspects and pinned down where he could not move,” La Vernia police Sgt. Donald Keil wrote in the affidavit.
Four other teens pleaded no contest and were sentenced to probation earlier this month for their alleged roles in the mass rapes, which were reported by The Daily Beast in March 2017. That month, 13 La Vernia High School students—many of them varsity athletes on the football and basketball teams—were arrested over allegations that they sodomized their younger teammates using deodorant bottles, cardboard rods, flashlights, soda bottles, pipes, and baseball bats.
The assaults became so routine, according to mothers of purported victims and court documents, that boys who were promoted to varsity teams began showering with underwear on in an effort to deter their assailants. There was so much ripped, bloody underwear shoved down drains that it clogged the pipes in the locker room, two La Vernia mothers told The Daily Beast in 2017.
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