Juanita High School rape: Teens rape a special needs boy using a broomstick
Juanita High School rape: Teens attempted broomstick rape of special needs boy
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An alleged rape at Juanita High School in Kirkland, Washington has five teenage boys – ages 14 and 15 – facing attempted rape charges this week in a Seattle juvenile court. The boys, all members of the Juanita Rebels football team, are accused of luring an older, special needs student into the campus locker room and then sodomizing him with the end of a broomstick.
Writes the Seattle Times on Feb. 6: “According to court documents, an 18-year-old special-education student was lured into the shower area of the Juanita boy’s locker room and then held down by three of the boys, who then pulled down his pants and underwear while another boy attempted to sodomize him with a broomstick. Witness accounts and text messages leading up to the event suggested that the incident was planned.”
Names of the boys were not released, but the incident was reportedly captured on at least one of the suspect’s cell phones. According to KOMO News out of Seattle, four of the boys denied participating in the attack or blamed the others. Only one of the boys admitted to the sexual assault, telling Kirkland police that “I was going to stick a broomstick up (the victim’s) a**.”
In the video, one of the attackers can be heard telling the others “it isn’t funny anymore.” The victim was then released. His aunt was the first to report the rape to police after the school's athletic director called her to inform that “an incident” had occurred the day prior between her nephew and the members of the football team.
“Although the incident does not appear to have been sexually motivated, the charges reflect that the attack involved an attempted or threatened penetration with a broom handle while one student was restrained by several others,” the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said.
KOMO News picks up the story:
The victim – a senior in the school's special needs program – told police he had been hanging around the locker room with members of the school's freshman football team when five of the players started to tease him about finding a picture of his girlfriend, according to court papers.
The teasing continued, and one of the players eventually called the victim into the shower area, where police say he and the other players grabbed the victim and pulled down his sweatpants and underwear.
The victim told police that the Juanita football team’s head coach, Shaun Tarantola, approached him to tell him that he was “sorry that happened,” but did not report the incident to police.
According to arrest affidavits, witnesses to the attack inside of the locker room said they had “no doubt” that the assault was planned by the teenage boys. The players were “trying to stick the broom in (the victim's) rectum,” and called the attack a hazing-motivated action known as a “jubie,” which according to the witness statement is when “someone is held down and a broomstick or finger is stuck up that person's rectum.”
All five have been charged with second-degree attempted rape and are scheduled to be arraigned on February 20.
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