Tag: hazing

Fourth player to get probation in hazing scandal:

The fourth and final suspect in the Mepham hazing/sexual assault trial was sentenced on was sentenced on Wednesday, and again another one escapes with a cushy sentence.

The mystery suspect only has to do 50 hours of community service, write a letter of apology to the victims, and compose an essay describing how the case has affected him and others. Why didn’t the judge just make him write “I will not shove pine cones in other people’s asses” on the blackboard a hundred times?

I seriously do not understand what Judge Robert J. Conway was thinking. He closed of proceeding to the public, instituted gag orders for all those involved, tried none of the four as adults, and gave mostly light sentences to the offenders. It seems like he thought that this was just a case of boys being boys. That would be true if they were trying out for the football team in ATTICA!!!!!!!!!!!

JUDGE SLAMS MEPHAM HAZERS:

The 3 football players from Mepham High in Long Island were sentenced today for sodomizing younger teammates in a hazing attack with broomsticks, golf balls, and pine cones.

One was sent to a boot camp, the other to a juvenile detention facility, and the third got probation after providing prosecutors with information.

On the one hand, the punishment sort of fits the crime because in boot camp and juvenile hall they’ll be able to find out what it’s like to be intimidated by someone bigger than you or in a position of authority over you.

On the other hand, the punishment isn’t enough. For all intents and purposes, they raped their younger teammates. Poetic justice would have been trying them as adults and putting them in a real prison where they can have a whole array of objects rectally inserted into them.

These rapists will get out eventually. The victims have to live with this their entire lives. Hopefully, they’re in facilities like the one in the movie Sleepers.

Inside Mepham Football Camp:

The fact that a Pennsylvania judge would try these rapists as juveniles is beyond me, especially after such acts as…

Witnesses and victims say the varsity players also targeted a black player with racial epithets repeatedly during camp, forcing the victims and other junior varsity players to put on white sheets and scream things like ‘we’re gonna lynch you, — ‘ and “the Klan is back.”

Someone had grabbed the broomstick already from the corner of the cabin and slathered the handle with mineral ice. The boy struggled, but two other varsity players, a junior and a senior who was a team co-captain, held him down.

Twenty-four hours later, about 1 p.m., the senior captain attacked the junior varsity player with duct tape, ripping the hair off his right leg, then his left, off his eyebrows and his armpits. Then, the senior handed the roll of tape to one of the juniors, who pulled the boy’s shorts down and used the tape to tear his pubic hair.

The three admitted attackers ordered another junior varsity player to sodomize the boy with a broomstick. When the other player resisted, they threatened to do the same to him.

Ten minutes later, they sodomized the other player anyway. The senior and one of the juniors held that boy down as he was sodomized with a pine cone covered with mineral ice. Then, using the broomstick, they sodomized him with a golf ball

These are not the acts of juveniles. These are the acts of rapists that deserve to be in prison. Again, I say the karma train was derailed. And again, I am still waiting for just one athlete to come forward and defend this kind of forced sodomy as just good fun. Until then, I’ll be making my way to the North Pole.

Thanks to Bad Jocks for the Mepham Link.

Out of Bounds:

This is a great article about the Mepham High sodomy hazing case in Long Island. Some quotes and observations from the article…

Observation: Mineral Ice was used on the foreign objects before insertion. If anyone has gotten that stuff anywhere near a sensitive area or any kind of mucous membrane knows how painful that can be.

Quote: Victims were laughed at in the halls and called “faggot” and “broomstick boy.”

Quote: “Most of the shit they did was pranks, like shaving cream,”

Quote:“The kid that did it, I feel so bad for him,” the boy says. “I don’t even care what they did.”

What about the boys who were raped? I ask.

“Two of the kids are underclassmen, little kids,” he says. “They really couldn’t do anything about it. But one kid who got it in the shitter, he’s just like a fag.”

He stops, waiting for my reaction.

“Yeah,” he says. “I heard the kid liked it.”

Quote: A day later, the three alleged victims are still having broomsticks thrown at them from cars in the parking lot.

Quote: Superintendent Caramore tries to explain that hazing simply doesn’t happen at Mepham—that football was canceled not because of what the boys allegedly did but because their teammates never reported it. That hasn’t satisfied parents who complain about the lost scholarships, the deflated homecoming celebration, and the fund-raisers for other sports, all of which depend on football and are now ruined, they’re saying, because of a couple of messed-up kids. (God forbid anyone should actually be responsible for their actions.)

Quote: In July, when Reichstein’s son, an incoming freshman, showed up for football practice, a junior on the team—the lineman—started calling him and some of the other boys “pussy,” “faggot,” and “cocksucker.” Reichstein went to McElroy. He says the coach said, “Okay, I’ll handle it.” From that moment on, the junior stopped calling Reichstein’s son “faggot” and started calling him “tattletale boy.”

Now some words about the attacker…

Observation: The kid’s father died the day after hearing his son was possibly going to face criminal charges. I can sympathize with that but it does not change what he’s done.

Quote: And then the lineman—whom classmates call a bully, who would shove kids he’d never even met into lockers as they walked by—stands suddenly, stepping out from his place in the front, and walks back eight rows to give a bear hug to his little brother

Quote:One day at practice, the lineman approached him while he was drinking from a water fountain. “Who do you think you are?” said the lineman, according to Reichstein’s son. “Are you on crack? Do you know who I am?”

The freshman, trying to show a little backbone, replied: “This is America. Go to the back of the line.”

The lineman was furious. “Don’t even think about sleeping at camp,” he said.

Quote: “I knew all those kids,” says another boy, a JV player. “I went to summer school with them.” The lineman, he says, “was always starting fights. You could just see he had so much anger in him. He’d just beat up on people—he’d be walking by and boom! Into the locker! I think he’s a dirtbag. Decent football player, though.”

All this over a game that children play. What gets me is that these parents who were expecting football scholarships for their kids are pissed at the school for canceling the season. The only people they should be pissed off at are the 3 little rat bastards who sodomized these poor kids. I guess common sense is in short supply in Bellmore.

Police to charge school athletes in sex assault:

Well, it looks like at least one police department is going to get it right. The Pennsylvania State Police are planning to file charges against the 3 Mepham High athletes who sodomized their younger teammates with broomsticks, golf balls, and pine cones. Hopefully, when they get to prison, they’ll be wishing for pine cones.

Link via Bad Jocks.

This one has been going on for a while now, but between the hurricane and the server change I haven’t had much time to talk about this.

Anyway let’s begin…

Mepham FB Players Accused of Sexually Abusing Teammates:

A Long Island High School football team goes to a training camp in Pennsylvania. The students are in separate quarters than the coaches. Guess what happens. 3 players get sodomized in a hazing incident. Reportedly with broomsticks. 3 players get suspended from the team but are allowed to stay in school, of course. It gets better.

Bellmore’s Awful Silence:

Students who witnessed the events and their parents were refusing to come forward and were retaining lawyers. One parent’s quote…‘Well, we’re not getting involved.’ But wait, there’s more.

Teens Attacked 3 Times at Camp:

The three boys, junior varsity players at the Bellmore school, allegedly were sodomized with broomsticks, golf balls and…wait for it…. PINE CONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only reason the boys came forward in the first place is because one of them continued bleeding for several days later and required surgery.

Board Benches Mepham:

So the school board canceled Mepham High’s football season, and rightfully so. But check out this quote from the mother of a player who obviously had no life of her own, so tries to live through her son…

But the mother of a ninth-grade player said the district, not the students, is responsible for what happened during the preseason football camp in Pennsylvania last month.

“I blame the school district because they let it happen,” the parent, who did not want to be identified, said yesterday afternoon. “A lot of the problems they have is due to lack of supervision at the camp.”

Sure, it’s the district’s fault. Hey, did you ever stop to think that maybe if these kids didn’t FORCE PINE CONES UP THEIR ASSES there would still be a football season? Dumbass. It doesn’t end there

Mepham Students Protest Board’s Decision:

30 football players, cheerleaders (of course) and supposed “supporters” (kids who wanted out of class), walked out of class and on to the football field to protest the school board’s decision to cancel the football season. The majority felt that the entire football team should not be punished for what 3 players did. Well maybe if some of the other players had tried to put a stop to it then that might not have been an issue assclown. As far as I’m concerned, this school should never be allowed to have a football team ever.

The three suspects have been suspended. They should be expelled, but that never happens to athletes. The Pennsylvania State Police are performing their own investigation, so let’s hope some arrests will be made. This time with some jail time.

I would love to hear from some buckethead jock either from Mepham or any other school defend sodomy hazing. C’mon and step up if you have the balls. Tell me why sodomizing someone with a pine cone to the point of bleeding is so cool.