Officials with the Hillsborough County School District are remaining tight-lipped as to the reasons behind the rape of a 13-year old boy in the locker room at Walker Middle School by four fellow male students.
The five teens were in the locker room following flag football practice and four allegedly raped the victim with a hockey stick and a broom handle. The victim had been harassed since mid-March by his four teammates but the reasons for that harassment have not been made public.
“We are not at liberty to say,” an unidentified woman answering the phone at the middle school told Watermark. “The case is under investigation.”
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested Randall John Moye, 14; Raymond A. Price-Murray, 14; Lee Louis Myers, 14; and Diemante J. Roberts, 15. The four will be charged as adults, Assistant State Attorney Pam Bondi told the St. Petersburg Times. They face charges of sexual battery and false imprisonment.
The four were arrested after the victim told a physical education teacher about the assault. The parents of the victim, who have not been identified to protect the teen’s identity, said they didn’t know their son was facing harassment at school.
The case comes just months after the State Legislature passed an anti-bullying bill protecting all students, including LGBT students, from bullying and harassment from classmates.
