First, this practice is allegedly so common among GHS sports teams that it has a name “G-ing.” As in, “He’s going to get his G-ing after the game tonight.” Sounds to us like there just might be a hazing tradition at Grant.

And second, according to this story, even parents of jocks at Grant feel intimidated, afraid to say anything about what is happening to their children for fear something worse might happen to the lads.  That puts things on a whole new serious level when even the culture gets to the parents.

Fortunately, someone did come forward, the school investigated and now the local sex crimes unit is looking into it to see if an charges will be brought.

Source: OregonLive

This latest incident comes from Nodaway Valley High School (IA) where two members of the wrestling team are accused of sodomizing three younger teammates with the handle of a jump-rope. Their “crime?” Reportedly missing practices. At least one report on this incident claims that the coaches were present right before the incident and had “. . . told the captains it was their decision and for the captains to do what they wanted for the punishment and the coaches walked out.”

Two wrestlers involved in the incident. Mikel Feick, 18, and Jacob Schliessman, 17, are charged with second-degree sexual abuse. An attorney for one of the three victims is asking for an independent investigation into the incident.

As far as we can tell, the coaches at NVHS are still in place the wrestling season continues.

Read more: http://www.kcci.com/news/30187841/detail.html#ixzz1jiOE5WyH

Same goes for coaches and the athletes themselves. Just because YOU don’t think it’s hazing, doesn’t absolve you of wrongdoing. In this case, the mother of a wrestler at Bridgewater-Raynham High in Massachusetts, Pamela Pace, who told The Brockton Enterprise that her son, Stephen Pace should not have been suspended for the incident (hitting teammates with brooms and towels if they lost a match) that wasn’t hazing because “no one was hurt.”

Unfortunately, Mrs. Pace, under Massachusetts state law, hazing is considered “any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on public or private property, which willfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health of any student or other person.” Someone doesn’t need to suffer a broken arm or rectal bleeding for it to be hazing.

Now, you may disagree with that law and the definition, but that doesn’t change it or allow you to ignore it. It’s also possible that the BRH hazing policy is even stronger. (BadJocks was unable to obtain a copy.)  But don’t feel bad Mrs. Pace, you’re not the first one to try and interpret hazing laws or policies to fit your personal vision (which usually involve men in hooded robes using paddles on young men in their underwear): several major universities have either ignored or re-interpreted their hazing policies after an incident.

One we can recall had members of the freshmen members of the baseball team singling naked in a bar. The school launched a special investigation with a special counsel who, after an lengthy process, decided it wasn’t hazing because the young men involved had agreed to participate. This, despite the fact that the school’s own anti-hazing policy said that agreeing to participate was not a defense. When pressed for documents related to the investigation via a FOIA request, we were told none existed. No transcripts of testimony from the victims, no final report in writing to the president of the university. Nothing. Just a verbal “It wasn’t hazing ’cause we say so.”

Hazing can also go unnoticed when held under the guise of a school “tradition” or a “team building exercise.” Case in point: the boys hockey team at Howell High School, not far from the BadJocks Bunker here in Michigan. Until recently coach Randy Montrose was considered the face of HHS hockey. That is, until pictures surfaced from a tournament in Marquette, Michigan where the new members of the team were doing a runway show in a bar wearing women’s underwear. (Coach Montrose claims it was women’s swimsuits, but does that really make a big difference?)  Apparently this “team building” exercise had been going on for years under Coach Montrose who saw it as more of a “rite of passage” than hazing.

Except it violated the Howell School District’s anti-hazing policy. Which coach Montrose should be familiar with and should have shared with his players. But, in his opinion, it wasn’t hazing. Hazing is evil, mean and cruel and done by drunken frat boys, not high school hockey players, right? Unfortunately Coach, like Mrs. Pace, your personal opinion on what is or isn’t hazing does not count here. The school district agreed and now Coach Montrose is no longer associated with the school. Interestingly, at least one suspended player on the hockey team thinks they’re being singled out because, “Other things have happened around the school with other sports.”  Hey, Howell High School: you may have a bigger hazing issue on your hands than you think.

And, while we’re on the subject of high school sports hazing, there is one other report of a incident involving the football team from Cooperstown High School (New York) last fall. I’ll let the father of one of the victims describe what happened:

“My son was tackled first, held down by two kids and one dropped his pants and put his butt in his face along with his genitals and stuff. They all had a pretty good laugh about it.”

The incident at New York wrestling powerhouse Warsaw High is a little different, but still stems from the concept that you can’t have just a little bit of hazing. Sorry, jocks just can’t seem to let it go: they insist on topping each other from year-to-year and we go from some innocent “horseplay” to assault.

In this case, he have a member of the wrestling team who was allegedly harassed last year as a freshman, but continued to be hazed this year, especially after he lost a match some of his older teammates thought he should have won. The victim reportedly complained to the coach (more on him later) and the harassment eased . . . for a while. After it picked up again (the other wrestlers reportedly “questioned his manhood” and you know what that means) the victim looked for a way out.

The older wrestlers allegedly agreed to stop tormenting him if he and another freshman (reportedly the victim’s friend) exchanged punches. (“Hey, we won’t get in trouble, they hit each other! We didn’t do anything!”)  They did, the older boys allegedly didn’t think the punches were good enough and punched them themselves. Then, there was reportedly a second punch between the two victims, and then a third . . . and that one was the one that broke the victim’s jaw. And to top things off, the whole thing was recorded on a cell phone, including older boys allegedly on the floor laughing as the victim lay bleeding. That video is key because the 17-year-old allegedly erased part of it and, in addition to facing hazing charges, also is accused of evidence tampering.

The school district decided that coach Robert Hirsch was not directly responsible, but suspended him anyway for failing to monitor the situation. Hirsch also decided to show up at the preliminary hearing for one of the accused, saying he was “showing support” for the team. Really? What about showing support for the victim? Hey coach: by showing up like that you’re telling the world you think the attacker is the one being wronged here . . . whether you meant to or not. And the school district has still failed to make a final judgement on this whole incident, but given this is a “state powerhouse” team, likely they will rule it’s “just horseplay that got out of hand” and deny there was any sort of “organized hazing.” No school wants to admit it has a hazing problem and most will go to great lengths to deny it, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. (Hint: That’s YOU Warsaw High.)

And, in a little bit of irony, the parents of the alleged 17-year-old bully got into a shoving match with a local TV cameraman as they entered the courtroom yesterday. Dad can be seen pushing away at the cameraman, while mom shouts “He’s a frickin’ 17-year-old. Give him a break, would you?” Can’t take having a TV camera in your face for 30 seconds? Try being harassed EVERY DAY in high school, being called names and being–allegedly–assaulted by the people who are supposed to your teammates.

Every, frickin’, day.

Yeah lady, let’s not cause your little boy any emotional pain, while one of his teammates sits across town eating dinner through a straw.

Watch the video below.

(Source: Athletic Business)

A lawsuit against Picayune Memorial High School (MS) claims that before a home game against Lumberton High last April, a freshman player was singled out for initiation into the nationally ranked baseball team. According to the suit, filed by the victim’s parents, Jeffrey Dixon Sr. and Amy Dixon, their son had his arms held behind his back while a third member of the team punched him in the chest. Instead of laughing it off, the victim went into convulsions and fell to the ground, while the scared members of the team scattered. The Dixon’s son was treated for the seizure, facial lacerations and a chest injury.

And what did the coach do when this transpired? According to the Dixon’s lawsuit, instead of attended to the injured player, the coach tried to console his star pitcher, who just happened to be the player who threw the hazing punch.

The Dixon’s lawsuit claims gross negligence, assault and battery, infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, conspiracy, civil rights violations and negligent supervision

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2012/01/05/3668175/suit-claims-teen-punched-in-chest.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2012/01/05/3668175/suit-claims-teen-punched-in-chest.html#storylink=cpy

Ty McGrath plays football for Sandwich High School (MA) and a few weeks ago allegedly kicked a freshman player, “prodded” him with a broom (whatever that means) and then force-fed him a brownie. The incident reportedly came to the attention of John J. Amaral who is NOT a member of the football team but a male cheerleader for SHS.  Apparently Mr. Amaral didn’t think the school was doing enough to protect the younger player so he allegedly took it upon himself to call Mr. McGrath seven times on his cell phone and reportedly left a voice-mail message “threatening to beat him up and ruin his football career.”

McGrath was eventually suspended from school for the Broom and Brownie incident and removed from the football team, while Amaral faced no actions from the school. As a result, McGrath’s parents have filed criminal charges against the cheerleader, including of two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon: his foot and a broom. They also say that the Broom and Brownie incident was just–wait for it–horseplay that got out of hand and nothing serious.

Not sure where this one is going to go, but things are a little screwy at Sandwich High, to say the least.

Source – Cape Cod Online

These charges are for a different hazing incident that ended with a broken leg after a female band member was beaten with fists AND a metal ruler to initiate her into something called the “Red Dawg Order.” Welcome to the club! Sorry you’ll never walk normally again!

So what next for the FAMU Marching Mobsters? If the school was smart they’d issue the Death Penalty: no band activities for five years (same as they would likely hand a frat or sorority which had a history of hazing) to get rid of anyone with a history with the group. Why no just a suspension or other punishment? Apparently the FAMU band hasn’t learned from past incidents: back in 1998, a clarinet player was hospitalized after he said he was paddled around 300 times, and in 2001 another band member suffered kidney damage–kidney damage– after being beaten with a paddle.

Yeah, death penalty.

Source – ABC News

Unfortunately, it seems like these things don’t get the attention they need until big buck lawsuits show up, but the game has started to change and college administrators better start paying attention to the hazing issues at their schools. And trust me, despite what everyone says, there is hazing going on at your school. It’s only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured.

Source – NY Times

If there’s anything worse than high school sports hazings, it’s high school jocks trying to cover their tracks and derail an investigation into what happened. Above are Facebook comments from members of a team accusing of a really disgusting new  hazing technique.

Details aren’t real clear, but apparently members of the Andover High (MA) boys basketball team allegedly decided that wedgies and wet willies weren’t good enough to haze the new members of the team. No, according to authorities, at least two “ringleaders” forced younger team members to participate ina game of “wet biscuit,” where the loser was–we’re not making this up!–forced to eat a semen-soaked cookie.

Nothing says “Welcome to the team” liking eating baked goods covered in one of your teammate’s DNA.

Who thinks of this stuff, and more importantly, who thinks of this stuff and then creates a Facebook page where the goal is to gather everyone on the team after school and come up with a plan to stonewall the investigation into this incident.

So far, at least five students have been kicked off the basketball team and and some kind of school suspensions. The two ringleaders, also known as the inventors of “The Wet Biscuit Game” have been expelled.

Source – Eagle Tribune

So, here’s the latest on this spreading scandal from the Great Falls Tribune:

Alex Mauricio Botina-Roehm, 18, faces a felony charge of sexual intercourse without consent as well as two misdemeanor charges of sexual assault after allegedly picking up two underclassmen football players by the crotch while in the shower room and in the case of one of the victims, allegedly sticking his thumb into his rectum.

Roehm was charged with the crime on Nov. 15, but the attorney for the victim, Scott Anderson of Anderson and Bliven in Kalispell, said the family didn’t get adequate assurance from the school district that their client would be protected from Roehm even after he was arrested and suspended from school.