Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "5 Damascus High School JV football players charged with raping fellow male teammates with broomstick" "Alleged 'ringleader' in Damascus H.S. rapes to be tried as juvenile, victims 'outraged'"
https://wjla.com/news/local/police-3-juvenile-males-charged-with-rape-in-damasus-high-school-hazing-assaults
by Kevin Lewis/ABC7Friday, November 2nd 2018
Five junior varsity football players at Damascus High School have been charged with raping four of their fellow male teammates on Halloween.
Sources confirm the five accused players used a wooden broomstick to sodomize the victims. The attacks, which school administrators have called "upsetting and unacceptable," happened following afternoon dismissal in the boy's locker room near the gymnasium. The four victims were picked, in part, based on their age and level of athleticism, sources add.
On Friday, Montgomery County Police charged three of the players with two counts of second-degree rape and two counts of attempted second-degree rape. A fourth player was charged with three counts of second-degree rape. The fifth player was charged with one count of attempted second-degree rape.
https://wjla.com/news/local/so-called-ringleader-in-damascus-hs-rapes-to-be-tried-as-juvenile-victims-outraged
by Kevin Lewis, ABC7Thursday, March 21st 2019
The juvenile suspect — also known as the so-called ringleader in the Damascus High School locker room sexual assaults — will be tried as a juvenile due, in large part, to ADHD.
“We believe this mental condition led to this behavior because it went untreated,” Wright opined in court. “There is a treatment model far superior to the punishment model for a 15-year-old child.”
The juvenile suspect was born in South Africa, but came of age in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where, like Wortman, people quickly noticed his abnormal level of agitation and unrest.
In 2014, the juvenile suspect immigrated to the U.S. with his mother and three sisters, now ages 17, 15, and 7, due to “political unrest” in the Congo. They settled in a Clarksburg, Md. townhome. The family is of Christian faith and values education. The suspect's mother is currently taking college courses, while his older sister was recently accepted into Penn State University.
During their multiple counseling sessions, Wortman claimed the suspect was polite, and even opened the door for his mother. He shared a desire to one day attend college and later become a Navy SEAL. He also expressed remorse for his actions.
“He’s very sad about it. He doesn’t understand why he does things,” Wortman testified. “He said he wants to ‘unbreak’ [his mother’s] heart.”
“It began in sixth grade,” said assistant state’s attorney Carlotta Woodward. “Now that it’s escalated to first-degree rape, now they have a problem, they’re saying it’s all because of ADHD.”
Prosecutors reminded the judge that the suspect— who is 6 feet 1 inch tall and 245 pounds — “selected small boys to victimize” and was “laughing” while wielding the wooden broomstick in the freshman locker room on Halloween Day.
“This was a premeditated, planned attack,” Woodward added. “And this wasn’t the first time The evidence shows the defendant was part of a similar attack earlier in the year.”
