Student Sodomized with Broomstick in "No Gay Thursdays"

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A Pennsylvania prosecutor took an unusual step to defend his office’s investigation into a hazing tradition known as “No Gay Thursday” at a suburban Philadelphia high school — saying he wants to snuff out the misrepresentation of facts and victim shaming.

The Chester County District Attorney’s Office, led by District Attorney Tom Hogan, released a six-page letter Thursday to “set the record straight” regarding last year’s investigation at Conestoga High School, where a freshman alleged he was sodomized with a broomstick by older players who found him arrogant and overconfident.

The letter, which was released with a judge’s permission, follows “repeated public demand” for more detail on the investigation that ultimately led to the firing of the team’s coaching staff, the suspension of three senior football players and, ultimately, the 14-year-old victim being expelled because of his role in an earlier sexting investigation.

Critics began doubting the victim’s story soon after the accused teens pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of summary harassment in January. A statement released by Hogan and attorneys for the 17-year-old teens said the freshman victim “did not suffer any physical injury” during the hazing incident, instead getting “briefly poked” in the leg with a broomstick, CBS Philadelphia reported.

“The victim maintained that it happened and was found credible by the investigators,” the letter reads. “The charged juveniles could credibly admit that they held the victim down and poked him with a broom, but never intended to penetrate him or did not believe that they had penetrated him. At the victim’s original request, the District Attorney’s Office had never charged the felony offense involving penetration, so it became a moot point in the plea discussions.”

“Did the broomstick penetrate the victim? The victim says yes. And only he would know.”