13-year-old Sodomized with a Pencil

[RedRoseSpiral]

13-year-old Colorado Wrestler Sodomized with a Pencil, Blamed, Teased and His Family Run Out of Town

I'm just disgusted, and I feel for this poor boy and his family. No one deserves to be raped or blamed for it. The people in this school and community are just as bad as those in Stubenville. I really fucking hate small towns with the mentality that their sports players can do no wrong and it's the victims fault for being the fucking victim.

[Gravekeeper]

Not a single fuck will be given if the Internet descends on this shit hole like they did Stubenville. The fucked up pack mentality of the town seems to be even worse here than it was with Stubenville. To the point even the cops were shocked.

[crashhelmet]

I was hazed and took part in hazing rituals in multiple different times of my life. Military school, sports teams, marching bands, and a Fraternity. In none of these organizations did shit EVER get sexual in any way, shape, or form. Sure, we'd drag you out of bed at 3am and through you into a lake, but we'd never rape or defile you.

Hazing is supposed to test your dedication and build up the team as a whole. It's not supposed to ridicule and reduce its members.

This wasn't hazing. It was criminal bullying.

[Andara Bledin]

More details to make you mad in an article at Bloomberg.

A scene out of Lord of the Flies, indeed.

[Gravekeeper]

I was hazed and took part in hazing rituals in multiple different times of my life. Military school, sports teams, marching bands, and a Fraternity. In none of these organizations did shit EVER get sexual in any way, shape, or form. Sure, we'd drag you out of bed at 3am and through you into a lake, but we'd never rape or defile you.

Yeah, thats what I don't get here with these mouth breathers talking about the boys will be boys good ol' days. When the Hell was dehumanizing shame, sexual assault or rape ever the good ol' days? And how the fuck is it suppose to foster any sort of team spirit?

When I was in high school "hazing" just meant a prank that you spent more than an hour planning and ended up with someone's shorts up a flag pole.

[Rageaholic]

"It should have been left alone," said Sheldon Cline, a 54-year-old electrician. "It should have been handled through the system here. If you publicize it, it gets blown out of proportion."

Well it wouldn't have been publicized had the whole town not bullied the poor kid after he was sexually assaulted.

Dumbasses.

[Panacea]

So the coach is also the school board president? No wonder he got his contract renewed. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house.

And these dumb asses talking about bullying as if it were a rite of passage. It's not. It's cruel, and it's wrong.

In this case, it was criminal. What the FUCK is wrong with these people to think that sodomy is "boys will be boys?"

[Nekojin]

Hazing is socially-accepted bullying, period*. The only reason it's tolerated is because of the whole, "We had to do it, and now we're in on the joke," bullshit. It's reprehensible at any level, and should be banned.

* Well, bullying is far more socially accepted than I'm comfortable with, to be honest. There are far, far too many people who think that standing up to bullies is some sort of manhood thing, a rite of passage. Bullshit. It's cruelty, plain and simple, and bullies get away with it because people downplay it.

[Kheldarson]

Hazing is socially-accepted bullying, period*. The only reason it's tolerated is because of the whole, "We had to do it, and now we're in on the joke," bullshit. It's reprehensible at any level, and should be banned.

I think that depends on what you're talking about with hazing too. One of the frats on my campus did hazing, but it was mostly things like a scavenger hunt that they had to get signed off on. One of those was being someone's servant for a day kind of thing...you got to choose the person. We had a hilarious day on the track as the guys filled that one out (they all asked our team captain, one of the sweetest girls ever, to sign on that one. She just asked them to do silly things ). You can have a hazing rituals without being bullying.

[HYHYBT]

...and it's the victims fault for being the fucking victim.

Ow. Rather unfortunate phrasing.

[Greenday]

High school football is where I dealt with hazing. There was some small funny things, like asking you to sign something only to get shocked by the pen. Carrying upper-classman's equipment.

Then you had guys who took it too far. One time while lifting weights, I felt something on my shoulder. Looked it it and it was a dick...

Another senior who was lazy during practice would take plays off and then when an under-classman would make him look bad, he intentionally try to hurt them the next couple plays. He chokeslammed me once after I dodged a pathetic excuse for a block and got the running back. He did it right in front of a coach but the coach said nothing.

These people where they are too dumb for anything but sports tend to be the ones who do it and go on to coaching where they just let it continue on.

[BlaqueKatt]

but "rape culture" doesn't exist