Two New York high school students have been charged for allegedly carrying out a violent hazing ritual – including sodomy and branding – on two boys under 15-years-old during an overnight trip last year.
The two students, both 16 at the time, have not been named by the court but the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office have issued multiple assault and hazing charges against the two teenagers.
Both of the accused, who attend the Francis Lewis High School in Queens, are said to have forced a younger cadet to strip-naked and lay face down while they burned his buttocks with a hot clothes iron.
One of the boys is then said to have attempted to sodomize the victim, who was 15 at the time, with his finger before ordering him to masturbate, court documents allege.
He said the two boys stuffed socks into his mouth to stifle his screams so that their teachers wouldn’t hear.
They’re said to have told him ‘it was tradition, and [he] should be grateful,’ because the hazing had been ‘a lot worse in the past.’
Both of the accused, who attend the Francis Lewis High School in Queens (shown), are said to have forced a younger cadet to strip-naked and lay face down while they burned his buttocks with a hot clothes iron
All of the boys involved were cadets on the school's prestigious athletics team, The Raiders (pictured with Retired Master Sgt. Peter Rompf)
One of the students has been charged with second-degree assault, as well as five counts of endangering a child and multiple hazing documents.
The second has been charged with aggravated sexual assault, hazing and invasion of privacy.
Neither of the defendants have yet entered a plea to the litany of charges, the New York Post understands.
The purported hazing incident is said to have occurred in April 2018 at the Hilton Garden Inn, in Westhampton, New Jersey, where the school’s athletics squad, The Raiders, were staying overnight as part of a field trip.
Staying in a room with the two older boys,
