This is happening near my hometown.
Basically, 3 high schoolers on the baseball team were charged of sexually assaulting at least one other student on the baseball team. The charges included inserting a foreign object into the rectum of one of the students attacked. Now, the charges are all being dropped in order to refile the charges as misdemeanors and keep the trial at the town level.
The part that got me even more? The fact that one of the defendant's lawyers actually said "boys will be boys" in defense. Excuse me? Boys will be boys is not an justification for assault of any kind, let alone sexual assault! The lawyers are saying that things were "blown out of proportion" and that the fact that the charges are being refiled at a local level demonstrates that their wasn't enough proof to file felony charges.
Apparently minors being penetrated by a foreign object isn't anything to worry about. I'm beyond disgusted right now, and I want to know what's happened to the victims.
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that is fucking horrible! Is there a news article about it? If i were you'd I'd go over and post about this on Current.com
People need to know that rape is not a misdemeanor and that forcibly inserting a foreign object into someone's rectum is not "boys will be boys"
This story is disgusting. To make matters worse, I'm sure the victim is being socially tormented by his peers.
I'm going to have a son in a few weeks and I'm so afraid of how he'll be affected by this stupid "boys will be boys" philosophy.
This is sad and horrible. Obviously the "boys will be boys" mentality is damaging to both genders. No sexual assault should trivialized and naturalized because the perpetrator was male.
It's probably this: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=wilsonhigh&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab5pos1
I can't believe that they are dismissing to file misdemeanors.