From Deseret News archives:
3 East High football players arrested, kicked off team
The three defendants, all 15, each face multiple charges in 3rd District Juvenile Court, including forcible sodomy, attempted forcible sodomy and forcible sexual abuse, all first-degree felonies.
The Deseret Morning News does not print the names of defendants charged in juvenile court.
In one incident, a student said that after East's football game against American Fork on Aug. 30 and before the game against Highland on Sept. 6, he was jumped by two students in the locker room, according to court documents. The two juveniles held the victim down while a third attempted forcible sodomy, court documents state. The boy was able to escape by fighting off his attackers.
A second student said that sometime between Sept. 3 and 6 he was in the showers at East High School when two students pulled him to the ground and forced him into a corner of the shower.
After that incident, another sophomore who witnessed the incident reported it to one of the sophomore team coaches, who then called Leopards head coach Aaron Whitehead.
"The next morning I reported it to my administration, and then we called the Salt Lake police," Whitehead said. "We immediately suspended the three players from the team. ... We've never had anything like this happen, and we certainly do not condone such activities."
Within a day of East administrators reporting the incident, police referred the case to Salt Lake County prosecutors. The student-athletes eventually were dismissed from the team and have not been attending school at East High, although district officials declined to say whether the boys have received specific discipline, including expulsion or suspension.
Charges were filed Sept. 19.
"The school did everything they were supposed to do," said Salt Lake School District spokesman Jason Olsen.
Olsen said the school has been working closely with the victims.
The incidents were being called hazing by some. But Olsen said neither hazing nor sexual assault against any student would be tolerated in the district.
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