Charges In Football Camp Hazing
(AP) Prosecutors filed criminal charges Thursday against three high school football players accused of hazing and sexually abusing younger teammates at a training camp in Pennsylvania.
The teens, members of the Mepham High School football team in Bellmore, N.Y., face a list of juvenile court charges, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, kidnapping, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment.
Police and a Wayne County grand jury have been investigating allegations that the teens, who were ages 15, 16, and 17, sodomized younger players with a broomstick, pine cones and golf balls during an Aug. 22-27 trip to Camp Wayne for Girls in Preston Park, Pa.
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