Hazing Shocker! Former Robertson HS Football Player Pleads Guilty to Sodomizing Younger Players With Broom Handle

This all started last summer, when members of the Robertson High School football team from Las Vegas, New Mexico were at one of those week-long overnight football camps. An alleged hazing incident happened and a complaint was filed. Almost immediately players were suspended, and the new head coach and his entire staff resigned. But, like most hazing incidents, school officials tried to downplay the seriousness of the incident, including District Superintendent Rick "There's Nothing to See Here" Romero who admitted at the time that there was an allegation from at least one young football player that he was pinned down and sodomized with a broomstick . . . . but that it now appears to be mostly false. "Mostly false?" At the time we were curious as to how that worked when you had a broomstick near your anus, but we took old Rick at his word. That is, until this week, when one of the upperclassmen on the RHS football team admitted in court that, yes indeed, he did try to sodomize some younger players and was willing to testify against five other players who are also heading to trial.

Here's more on the story from KRQE:

As part of a plea agreement Jarek Padilla will not be sentenced as an adult. He also could be called to testify against five former teammates who still face charges from the August incident.Padilla pleaded guilty as a minor to charges of rape and conspiracy.
The hazing, alleged to include older players sodomizing younger ones with a broom handle, happened at an out-of-town camp. New Mexico State Police were waiting when the team returned to Las Vegas by bus.
Padilla's surprise plea came at the start of a preliminary hearing for the accused teens. The hearing is being held in Santa Fe after prosecutors in Las Vegas handed the case to another jurisdictions because of conflicts of interest.
When the hearing began, the boys on the team who say they were assaulted by the six, gave emotional testimony as they described what they said happened to them.
The first witness, a sophomore, claimed the first attack started when he and a junior taunted each other through a cabin wall. Other witnesses called it trash talk over girlfriends.
The sophomore said four defendants came after him, and witnesses said they tried and failed to prevent the attack on led by defendant Michael Gallegos.
"He went back outside for a minute, and then he went back in," the sophomore witness testified. "He was holding a broomstick, and Lucas Martinez held him down in the top bunk. "That's when they assaulted him."