Sexual assault among high school teammates

[jerseydevil]

The last couple of weeks the news has been covering two sexual abuse cases that occurred between high school teammates. The first one - is being called a "hazing" incident - but really it's sexual abuse.

A high school football team from Long Island was at a summer camp in Pennsylvania. While there some of the varsity players sodomized some of the younger players with a broom stick, golf ball and a pine cone. The younger players are 13 and 14 and the varsity players ranged in age from 15 - 17. Other players watched.

No one said anything about the incident until one boy's bleeding wouldn't stop for 3 days - he finally told his parents. The entire football season is cancelled - some parents are outraged by this. You can read more about the incident here...

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Here is an episode that occurred in a high school locker room -

Officials Investigating Charges Of Abuse In Baldwin High School Locker Room
Baldwin Teenagers Charged With Sexually Assaulting Classmate

The most recent incident occurred to a 14 year old soccer player by a 17 year old. Supposedly soemthing happened on the field and then in the locker room the 17 year old and two other players held the 14 year old down while the 17 year old sexually assualted him. They don't say how he was sexually assualted. This is the only thing I could find right now on the web - but we have had this in our news for about the past week,

Arrests made in connection to teen sex abuse
October 14, 2003
An arrest has been made in the shocking abuse against a 14-year-old boy from the town of Friendship.

Police say a 17-year-old is behind bars, charged with sexual abuse.

Bail has been set at $5,000.

Police say he was involved in last week's incident involving the Friendship boys soccer team.

There is a report of a similar situation from Cattaraugus County this morning.

A 17-year-old from the Southern Tier has been charged with sexually abusing a 14- year-old boy, at the Randolph Children's Home.

The suspect is also charged with harassment and is being held on $5,000 bail at the Cattaraugus County Jail.

He's due back in court in November.

WKBW-TV Buffalo

So why are teammates resorting to sexual assault against fellow players like this? This I think it really disturbing. Some of the parents in the Long Island case asked "where were the chaperones during all this". As it turns out - because of the fear of sexual abuse by adults - adults are not allowed to stay in the same cabins as the students. Therefore the students are completely on their own - this also goes for Boy Scouts, etc. Now the parents are wondering if they traded in the fear of one abuser - for another (their children's own teammates).

I was just wondering about other people's thoughts on this.

What also seems strange is that this happens in front of many of the other players. I would think they would look at it as something "gay" - but that doesn't seem to be the case at all.