Seven high school football players have been arrested in a hazing scandal in central New Jersey, and three of them have been charged with sex crimes for assaults on freshman team members last month, prosecutors said.
Six of the defendants, whose identities were withheld because they are juveniles, were arrested by investigators with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Sayreville Police Department on Friday night, according to a statement released by prosecutor Andrew Carey.
The alleged incidents took place at Sayreville War Memorial High School between Sept. 19 and Sept. 29, according to Carey, who said four juvenile players were held against their will and improperly touched in a sexual manner.
The hazing allegations surfaced earlier this week, and Middlesex County school officials canceled the school’s football season in response, angering parents and members of the Sayreville community. The team has won multiple state championships and is considered a powerhouse in the New Jersey sports landscape.
Three of the players were charged with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact and hazing for “engaging in an act of sexual penetration” on one of the victims, Carey said. The other four face aggravated assault and hazing charges.
Emails sent to Principal James Brown and the school’s athletic director seeking comment were not immediately returned. But the incident has drawn an outcry from New Jersey politicians, including Gov. Chris Christie, who called the allegations “extraordinarily disturbing” on Thursday.
“If these facts as alleged are true, then this is a nightmare for the parents of those young men and it tells us something about the attitude that was allowed to pervade in that program,” Christie told reporters on Thursday.
The defendants will appear in family court in New Jersey, though a hearing date has not been set. Criminal complaints against juveniles are not public record.
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“…it tells us something about the attitude that was allowed to pervade in that program,” Christie told reporters on Thursday.”
This is an example of the attitude that allowed it to pervade:
“‘No one was hurt, no one died — I don’t understand why they’re being punished,’ Madeline Thillet, who said she was the mother of a football team captain, told the board of education at a meeting last week.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/nyregion/7th-sayreville-football-player-surrenders-in-a-new-jersey-hazing-case.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
When this story appeared on the News12 online news section, the comments area was literally filled with comments calling Madeline Thillet exactly what she is, an idiot.
An obvious symptom of promoting homosex in our society.
My Fellow Americans:
This is near where I live.
I did NOT grow up in this pyschologically stunted, retarded, inbred town of low-brow surban hillbillies,… and had I known how corrupt the politics, police and courts are here, in addition to how dishonest,.. and cowardly most of the people are I have met here,.. I never would have! (nor would any rational,… self respecting,.. honest person.)
As it is,… notice how the parents are, “outraged!” that their mindless school sports activities have been inturrupted by suspending playing for the season!!! (…why,… Why!,.. HOW DARE THEY!!!!),… and how these same low grade morons couldn’t care less that a completely criminal cartel is in charge of this country,.. and is getting ready to slaugther them,.. their kids, families and friends (…..Who cares about that!!!,.. gives us our highschool football damn it!,… NOW!!!).
Yes my fellow Americans,.. Sayerville,… the town that now has TWO claims to fame!,… Bon Jovi (he went to Sayerville Highschool),…. and a football team where the seniors jam their fingers in the assholes of younger kids,… and then somethimes make them taste it!!,… mmm,…mm,…. that must be the taste of morality to them.
What the parents will NEVER admit: IT’S THEIR FAULT FOR FOR NOT PARENTING!!,.. ITS THEIR FAULT FOR LETTING “GOV’T” RAISE THEIR KIDS,…. ITS THEIR FAULT THEIR KIDS HAVE NO MORALS, NO PRINCIPLES AND NO SENSE OF HONOR, RESPECT, OR SIMPLE DECENCY!!!,.. Period,… BAR NONE!
Sayerville – the very definition of inbreed,…. surburban hillbillies,.. the whole lot of them.
JD – US Marines – Sayerville is not an exception to what is wrong with this country,… they are only helping to blaze the trail of depravity into the bowels of perdition.
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JD, your first paragraph could be describing most small town communities here in Wisconsin. They all have the “smiling masons” and the good ole boys clubs in their towns that determine who and what will be allowed to do business in town.
“Surban hillbillies” …..maybe more like surban snots raised by surban suck parents.
I never new there were hillbillies in Jerseky? LoL They just might meet their match in Juvie.
cutting through the doubletalk:
so they got ass-raped!
send the bitches to Iran or Zimbabwe, they know how to deal with such people!!!
just to add, if anybody had ever tried something like that on me, by the time i would have calmed down the attacker wouldnt even be usefull as a transplant donor!
“We have to prepare you for the NFL, so drop your pants and bend over, just like a real football player”.
“If these facts as alleged are true, then this is a nightmare for the parents of those young men…..”
Nightmare for the parents? What about the boys who got reamed? Are you suggesting that it’s okay for them, and they should just get used to being gay if they want to be football players?