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http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.s...l_nature_of_locker_room_ritual_exclusive.htmlSayreville football parent reveals sexual nature of alleged locker room hazing ritual (Exclusive)
Matthew Stanmyre | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com By Matthew Stanmyre | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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on October 08, 2014 at 4:07 PM, updated October 08, 2014 at 5:46 PM
It came without warning.
It would start with a howling noise from a senior football player at Sayreville War Memorial High School, and then the locker room lights were abruptly shut off.
In the darkness, a freshman football player would be pinned to the locker-room floor, his arms and feet held down by multiple upperclassmen. Then, the victim would be lifted to his feet while a finger was forced into his rectum. Sometimes, the same finger was then shoved into the freshman player’s mouth.
This disturbing hazing within the storied Sayreville football program, as told to NJ Advance Media on Wednesday by the parent of a player in the program, happened almost every day in the locker room this fall, he said.
The allegations — for the first time — provide details to the events that sparked a criminal investigation by local and county police, and prompted the cancellation of the remainder of the Sayreville football season this week by Superintendent of Schools Richard Labbe.
The parent, informed by his son and other parents close to the investigation, is the first to come forward to reveal the hazing practices Labbe has characterized as “incidences of harassment, intimidation and bullying as constituted by the definition within the anti-bullying statute that took place on a pervasive level, on a wide-scale level, and at a level in which the players knew, tolerated, and in general accepted.”
According to the parent, whose identity is being protected because the parent feared retribution against the family and the player, the routine was initiated when an upperclassman would enter the locker room and make a wolf call or howling noise.
“[For] 10 seconds, the lights would go off and they would grab a freshman and they would go on,” the parent said. “Right on the floor. … It was happening every day. They would get the freshmen.”
He added: “Kids would just sit around and witness [stuff] like this.”
Detectives from the Middlesex County Prosecutors Office and the Sayreville Police Department are investigating the allegations, but officials have refused to reveal any specifics about the case. The parent said his son and several other Sayreville players have been questioned by police. No charges have been filed. The parent also said he is in the process of retaining an attorney.
“These parents here, they’re in shock,” the parent said. “We never expected anything like this to happen. Your kid, he’s going to school, school’s got to be a place where you think the kid is the safest.”
When told of the specific allegations over the phone Wednesday, Labbe declined to comment. He referred to his previous comments calling the allegations “very serious.”
A message left in the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office was not immediately returned. David Abromaitis, a detective in the office, declined comment Wednesday when reached by phone.
The parent said the “ringleaders” involved in the hazing are seniors.
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Madeline Thillet, speaking at Tuesday night’s board of education meeting, said her son was one of the members of the team interviewed by investigators. She downplayed the hazing while protesting the cancellation of the season.
“I was at the police station with him when they were questioning him,” she said. “They were talking about a butt being grabbed. That’s about it. No one was hurt. No one died. I don’t understand why they’re being punished. I think that the forfeited game was punishment enough.”
Mother of Dylan Thillet Sayreville football player speaks to School Board
Mother of Dylan Thillet Sayreville football player speaks to School Board and says 'I was at the police station with him when they were questioning him. They were talking about a butt being grabbed' as the Sayreville football season is canceled
The parent said he could not “understand how none of the coaches were aware of it. As a coach, you know what’s going on in your clubhouse. You know what’s going on in the locker room.”
On Oct. 1, Labbe said he was alerted to an anonymous allegation made to Sayreville police about a serious incident of inappropriate conduct —possibly more — by members of the football team. The next day, the matter was turned over to the Middlesex County prosecutor and Labbe canceled Sayreville’s football games — varsity, junior varsity and freshman contests — last weekend against rival South Brunswick. Then, on Friday, an attorney for assistant coach Charles Garcia said his client had resigned after details of his arrest for steroids possession surfaced.
On Monday, Labbe announced he was canceling the rest of the season.
The hazing allegations have turned Sayreville’s no frills, blue-collar community upside-down, as both local and national news vans and media reporters have descended on the town, scouring the streets and interviewing people in parking lots and strip malls.
Many Sayreville residents have expressed outrage over the cancellation of the football season. The varsity team, nicknamed the Bombers, has made the playoffs in each of the past 20 seasons, and Sayreville has captured three state championships over the past four years, feeding nearby Rutgers University with a host of elite players.
More than a hundred Sayreville residents attended Tuesday night’s previously scheduled board of education meeting to urge the members to reconsider the decision to cancel the season. The crowd, at times, grew heated and animated, but the board affirmed the decision to end the football season.
Afterward, about a hundred people gathered under the lights on the football field, until it was time to go home.
SAYREVILLE, N.J. --- The lights were off in the locker room. What happened next has both consumed and divided this town. It is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation and the reason the Sayreville High School Bombers will not play football again this season.
Investigators and school administrators have been mum on specifics, but this much is clear: there was a hazing incident, and according to SI sources, the acts went beyond any reasonable definition of harmless and fun. By Oct. 2, investigators revealed enough information to school administrators that a game against South Brunswick was cancelled just hours before kickoff, citing “very strong allegations that we’re investigating about inappropriate conduct by players.” On Monday night, Superintendent Richard Labbe announced the remaining five games for the Bombers – who have won sectional titles in three of the last four seasons, with 20-straight playoff appearances -- would not be played.
According to SI sources, including one close to the investigation, the allegations are lewd: Investigators are looking into whether upperclassmen on the Sayreville football team digitally penetrated underclassmen on the team. That could explain why one parent told the Newark Star-Ledger that underclassmen players would “stampede” to the locker room to get dressed and exit quickly.
"There was enough evidence that there were incidents of harassment, of intimidation and bullying that took place on a pervasive level, on a wide-scale level and at a level at which the players knew, tolerated and generally accepted," Labbetold reporters Monday night. "Based upon what has been substantiated to have occurred, we have canceled the remainder of the football season."
Middlesex County Prosecutor Spokesman Jim O’Neill said the investigation is ongoing, adding there is no timeline for its completion.
A football-centric community, a culture of bullying, alleged crimes featuring sexual overtones: Sayreville’s scandal has enough ingredients to stew into a national obsession. It’s a news story that transcends football, a textured saga that could unravel a community and expose dirty truths about high school athletics.
By the time school got out on Tuesday afternoon, a handful of TV trucks hovered by the student parking lot and two police officers helped direct traffic. According to students, nearly half of the football team didn’t show up to school on Tuesday. Players who attended classes wore their uniforms.
This was supposed to be spirit week, culminating with Friday’s Homecoming game against Monroe. “But how are we supposed to have spirit if we don’t have a football team?” freshman Yasmine Gomez lamented.
Members of the cheerleading team felt like collateral damage. There will be no Homecoming, no Senior Night, and no ceremonial last lap around the football field. The cheerleaders held a meeting Tuesday night to discuss their next move. “Football runs this school,” says William Simmons, a 17-year-old in the school band. “That’s all everyone cares about. Football, football football.”
Simmons’ sentiment is echoed by a popular school legend: A few years ago,Sayreville alum Bon Jovi donated a large sum to be designated for school activities. As the story goes, the football team burned through most – if not all – of the rocker’s gift.
Some students said their teachers were told not to talk about the allegations. Others said the topic dominated class discussion. The Facebook page “Support Coach [George] Najjar & The Sayreville Bomber Football Program” garnered 565 likes within 24 hours.
“Things have been blown out of proportion,” said Gomez, the freshman. “We know the players, and hazing, to them, they didn’t mean it in that way. It was more like being friends.”
“People who see the news, they don’t know exactly what’s going on,” says Alex Martinez, a senior, who said he was one of many students who heard of the lewd nature of the acts. “So it’s just ‘hazing.’ But this changes it.”
Just 35 miles southwest of Manhattan but geographically light-years apart,Sayreville is a middle-class town of 42,000, nestled along the Raritan River, sitting at the tip of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. Lawns are dotted with election signs for the heated Borough Council race; there are an unusually high number of Halloween decorations. The windy roads are marked by strip malls, which usually feature a family-run deli, a nail salon and either a Quick Check or a Krauser's.
Adjacent to one strip mall, in an overgrown gravelly lot off Main Street, stands a 30-foot blue billboard with the high school football team’s schedule.
Sept. 12 away vs J.P. Stevens – 42-7 win.
Sept. 19 home vs North Brunswick – 48-12 win.
Sept. 27 –away vs Manapalan- 64-28 loss.
There are six more game on the schedule. The scores are, and will be, left blank.
In front of the billboard is a hot-dog stand with drive-by service -- a popular lunch destination for the football team. On Tuesday afternoon, a 2012 Sayrevillegraduate was among a handful of men loitering by it. He had buzzed hair, a linebacker’s build and wore his leather varsity jacket. He became tense when approached by a reporter.
“I don’t want to talk about it,” the former Bomber said. “Nobody wants to talk about it. I’m sorry. We all are waiting for it to go away.”
http://www.si.com/high-school/2014/10/07/sayreville-high-school-football-investigation-hazing
" but you CANNOT pin a freshman down, insert your finger in his a$$hole (pause), and then put that same finger in his mouth. shyt is sick yo. And it allegedly happened every day man go on 
so we can see what these sodomites look like.