3 Were Afraid To Tell of Abuse-New details in Mepham investigation

[salin]

3 Were Afraid To Tell of Abuse
New details in Mepham investigation

By Karla Schuster, Robert E. Kessler and Keiko Morris
STAFF WRITERS

September 12, 2003


At least one of the boys allegedly abused during a Mepham High School football camp was locked in a room by three older players who held him down and sodomized him with a broomstick, a source close to the victim's family said last night.

The boy, a ninth-grader at the Bellmore school, told his parents the older boys assaulted him while he was alone in a cabin during a weeklong training camp in Pennsylvania last month. Several days later, the boy discovered that two other junior varsity players allegedly had been abused in a similar way during the trip, the source said.

The boys were too ashamed to tell anyone what had happened, the source said. But days later, scared because two of them were still bleeding continuously, the boys finally told their parents, who reported it to the school and Pennsylvania police, the source said.

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[TrogL]

1. So these kids have to confront their rapists every day

Three varsity players, ages 15, 16 and 17, have been suspended from the team but remain in school,

Why aren't they in jail without bail. They are a likely threat to re-offend.

[demnan]

2. I think they have a future

either in the British military or as New York City Police.