High School Cancels Football Season After Players Sodomize Teammate With Object, Post Video

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — WCCO has uncovered disturbing new details about why a Minnesota high school canceled its football season. School leaders and police in Proctor won’t talk specifics, but multiple students told WCCO about a locker room assault and the video that spread on social media.

Multiple students told us two football players held down another player as a third, older teammate used an item to sodomize that player held on the ground. Students told us it took days for school officials to find out as video and pictures circulated among classmates on Snapchat.

As the public awaits the findings of a police investigation, we were told the students in the video haven’t been seen in class since school leaders found out.

We checked again Friday and the school board, superintendent and police are still not talking publicly about what happened. All are citing privacy laws for their decisions to stay quiet. We also reached out to the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office. A spokesperson said they are waiting for the results of the police investigation before deciding on filing any possible criminal charges.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/10/05/proctor-teens-say-students-used-item-to-sodomize-teammate-shared-video-online-2/
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Something similar happened here in New Mexico (minus the video).
The boy assaulted was so injured he’ll have to wear a colostomy bag the rest of his life.

[marble falls]

1. That particular iniation is very widely practised. Coaches have even been present.

[Mister Ed]

5. Good god. It had better start being widely prosecuted, then, and with the strictist of penalties. nt

[marble falls]

6. There's guy in town who was subjected to this in the 90s in the next county over ...

... his coach was present and never said a word. His dad (who is a formidable man) was going to go to the HS and take it down brick by brick and get lawyers involved. My friend just wanted the whole thing buried out of embarrassment.

It changed his life in a terrible way, that he's only been able to fix in the last five or so years.

He was raped and he never got resolution because of his mortification from it.


Boys learn this sort of abuse from adult men.

[Mister Ed]

8. That horrible story illuminates the plight of all rape victims, I guess.

Over and over again, everywhere and throughout history, victims are shamed into silence while perpetrators walk free.

Humankind must undergo a fundamental transformation on this, and learn to redirect the shame onto those who commit shameful crimes. We see that starting a bit, here and there, but that trickle has to swell to an all-engulfing flood - and soon.

[marble falls]

9. I do not grok this urge to humilate and project power over others. The perpetrators are almost ...

... always men. I respect the natural suspicion of women and children about unknown men. I always give them plenty of space. Stranger danger is real. Bullying is real.

[blm]

2. Oh geez.

[cab67]

3. Understatement of the year in the article:

“I think the dude that did it should definitely get punished for what he did,” Jayce Grover, a senior, said.

[wryter2000]

4. Ironically

They’ll probably think canceling the season was unfair.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. The school also needs to

expel the participants (not the victim, obviously) and those who circulated the video, and suspend everyone who watched and didn't participate but chose not to tell. Do not allow those who did the deed to graduate. They can get their effing GED somewhere...if they want to. And as far as I'm concerned, they just lost any chance at any future football scholarship. No Minnesota school, at least, should even admit them. Harsh? Yeah. But if my grandson were the victim, I'd be looking for those guys with a shotgun. The hell with the police investigation. I've seen enough of this crap.

Sorry, but the memory of what happened in Hamilton County, TN, is still fresh in my mind.

/rant mode off.

[rsdsharp]

10. When I was a sophomore in high school, the sophomores dressed

in a separate dressing room from the one used by the varsity. The varsity dressing room was closer to the practice field, and the sophomores had to walk through it on the way to practice.

There were three or four varsity players (all juniors) who took delight in torturing the sophomores. They chose lockers nearest the exit door to the field, and the younger players had to run a gauntlet daily to get to practice. We were routinely punched — in the head, face, belly and the groin.

After a period of time we started exiting the locker room in the opposite direction, climbing a flight of stairs, walking across a stage, and descending another flight of stairs that ended outside the varsity locker room. They quickly tumbled to that trick and started meeting us at the bottom of the stairs for even more enthusiastic “fun.”

Finally, one Saturday night, away from the school, and the safety of the locker room, they went too far, and seriously beat up some kid. That resulted in them being thrown off the team, with 3-4 weeks left in the season. The ringleader was allowed on the wrestling team that year, which was coached by the varsity football line coach.

There was no sexual abuse involved, but about three or four years later there were sexual issues in the initiation to the letterman’s club. It was degrading stuff, rather than violent sexual assault, but it resulted in the athletic director losing his job. He had been one of the varsity coaches my sophomore year, and my BSCS teacher.

[NowISeetheLight]

11. This is sexual assault

Try them as adults, send them to prison, and put them on the sex offender registry when they get out. Make examples out of them. Then put on a presentation in every other high school in the state describing the punishment these "hazers" got and emphasizing how their lives are basically ruined forever.

This isn't innocent and this isn't non-traumatic.