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Must read: Parent with video camera captures demeaning co-ed initiation connected to high school activity

November 3, 2017 By Hank Nuwer Leave a Comment

Here is the link to the Washington Post and an excerpt

Good story by reporter Kyle Swenson. What part of “Please stop” didn’t the hazers understand?

The older team members shouted that the freshman had to do their dance routines, according to court records. As the girls fumbled through the steps, the older kids started bombing them with water balloons, some filled with oatmeal. They were sprayed with large water guns filled with ketchup. The senior team members then told the girls to strip down on the bikinis they had been ordered to wear. They were given garbage bags to don like dresses. A tarp, sticky with maple syrup and feathers, was unrolled on the ground. The young girls were ordered to wrestle.

“Last one standing wins.”

The young girls began toppling each other while helplessly begging. “Please stop, please stop.”

The high school hazing mayhem did not go unnoticed on the night of August 9, 2014. From nearby trees, Taissa Achcar-Winkels secretly filmed her 14-year-old daughter’s public humiliation.

“I was not OK with what had happened,” Achcar-Winkels’s daughter, identified in court records only by initials, told a federal court this week, according to the Lake Oswego Review. “I was terrified. I thought that had I stood up and said I didn’t want to do it, it wouldn’t have ended up well either way.”

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