Sayreville football team case went far beyond hazing

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(CNN) -- On Friday, the Sayreville High School football team was supposed to host a rival team in a homecoming game. But instead of taking the field, seven Sayreville, New Jersey, players were taken into custody, arrested and charged in flagrant sexual assaults on younger players. Many have referred to the incident as pervasive locker room "hazing."

What allegedly happened isn't just hazing, it's rape.

"It would start with a howling noise from a senior football player at Sayreville War Memorial High School, and then the locker room lights were abruptly shut off," NJ Advance Media reported (citing information from the parent of one victim).

"In the darkness, a freshman football player would be pinned to the locker-room floor, his arms and feet held down by multiple upperclassmen. Then, the victim would be lifted to his feet" and sexually assaulted.

If that's not enough to make you sick to your stomach, consider that these attacks allegedly happened several times -- between September 19 and September 29 -- and to four separate victims.

Consider that there were dozens of players in these locker rooms who allegedly witnessed the rapes and hazing and did nothing to stop, report or thwart them.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/opinion/robbins-sayreville-football-sex-assault/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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Consider that there were dozens of players in these locker rooms who allegedly witnessed the rapes and hazing and did nothing to stop, report or thwart them.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/opinion/robbins-sayreville-football-sex-assault/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

this sends up a red flag to me. like the rest of the kids were so afraid it would happen to them and they felt the administration wouldn't be able to protect them from it if they told..

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Football is so obviously homoerotic, how is any of this surprising?

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this sends up a red flag to me. like the rest of the kids were so afraid it would happen to them and they felt the administration wouldn't be able to protect them from it if they told..

Talk about scary. Howling, the lights getting cut off and then someone is raped? They're lucky someone didn't end up getting killed.

Football is so obviously homoerotic, how is any of this surprising?

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Football is so obviously homoerotic, how is any of this surprising?

rape isn't homoerotic, football is but rape isn't.