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'No-Gay Thursday:' Horrid abuse alleged at Conestoga (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Mar 2016
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enough
(13,262 posts)1. Link to the original article:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160305_DA__3_charged_in_Conestoga_hazing_incident.html
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Three seniors, including a team captain, grabbed a freshman they didn't like, who was trying to leave the locker room during a hazing ritual. Two held him down, while the third penetrated his rectum with a broom handle, officials said.
"That's over 400 pounds of senior holding down this freshman," said Thomas P. Hogan, the Chester County district attorney, adding that the victim was 5-foot-7 and weighed about 160 pounds.
Police charged the three seniors, all 17 at the time, as juveniles with assault, unlawful restraint, making terroristic threats, and related offenses.
Hogan said the three were not charged with a sexual offense because "from our perspective, it's a physical assault and not a sex crime." He added that the decision was made after consulting with the victim and his family.
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Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160305_DA__3_charged_in_Conestoga_hazing_incident.html#PUyvvt4xDqVSIZ63.99
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Three seniors, including a team captain, grabbed a freshman they didn't like, who was trying to leave the locker room during a hazing ritual. Two held him down, while the third penetrated his rectum with a broom handle, officials said.
"That's over 400 pounds of senior holding down this freshman," said Thomas P. Hogan, the Chester County district attorney, adding that the victim was 5-foot-7 and weighed about 160 pounds.
Police charged the three seniors, all 17 at the time, as juveniles with assault, unlawful restraint, making terroristic threats, and related offenses.
Hogan said the three were not charged with a sexual offense because "from our perspective, it's a physical assault and not a sex crime." He added that the decision was made after consulting with the victim and his family.
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Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160305_DA__3_charged_in_Conestoga_hazing_incident.html#PUyvvt4xDqVSIZ63.99
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)2. Sounds like rape to me.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)3. Not a sex crime?
The Pennsylvania law is screwed up. Forced sodomy with a broom handle should lead to the most serious charges available, and they should be charged as adults (they were 17).
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)4. This "No-Gay Thursday" has been going on for 3 years.
Hogan said upperclassmen on the football team had held No-Gay Thursdays for at least the last three years.
Upperclassmen put their genitals on younger students' heads and ground their bodies against their legs. They also forced younger students to strip to their underwear and clean the locker room, which is what happened just before the assault, Hogan said.
They smacked their fellow students on their behinds and backs hard enough to leave marks, he said.
"There's nothing I can say right now," Conestoga football coach John Vogan said Friday, referring all questions to a school district official. The district said in a letter Friday night that he had been suspended.
Football coaches said they were unaware of the hazing, but students participating in other sports knew, Hogan said. "This was the worst-kept secret in the world," he said.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160305_DA__3_charged_in_Conestoga_hazing_incident.html#sb5YF4rdqgFDlzAA.99