A number of college students at a New Jersey highschool have been criminally charged over a collection of alleged hazing incidents within the soccer staff’s locker room, prosecutors stated Monday.
The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Workplace stated the “juvenile defendants” are going through costs together with hazing, legal sexual contact and false imprisonment over the purported assaults at Wall Township Excessive Faculty final September and October.
Prosecutors didn’t element the accusations. However the highschool was reportedly investigating claims in November {that a} sophomore soccer participant was pinned to the ground of the locker room and hazed with a broomstick as he screamed for assist.
About six older gamers on the Crimson Knights staff had been being investigated after movies of the alleged incident surfaced, NJ.com had reported.
In one of many alleged incidents, a bunch of gamers may very well be seen surrounding the sophomore with a broomstick as he screamed, based on dad and mom. Whereas the video didn’t present sodomy, the dad and mom stated it was clearly the intention.
“The outcomes of our investigations necessitated the submitting of juvenile complaints in opposition to these concerned in an effort to serve the pursuits of justice,” Performing Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey stated in a press release.
“It’s crucial that victims of hazing, harassment, intimidation, and bullying know that such conduct is just not a ‘ceremony of passage’ and shouldn’t be endured with out consequence in an effort to acquire acceptance in social, membership, sport, or tutorial settings,” Linskey added.
A separate investigation by the prosecutor’s workplace additionally led to costs in opposition to one scholar accused of a sexual assault outdoors the varsity.
