Former New Mexico State players charged with sex crimes in locker-room hazing case

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.courthousenews.com/former-new-mexico-state-players-charged-
with-sex-crimes-in-locker-room-hazing-case/

(AP) — Three former New Mexico State basketball players were charged with
multiple sex crimes Thursday related to a series of alleged assaults of
teammates that led to the disbandment of the team in the middle of last
season.

A New Mexico grand jury indicted former Aggies Deshawndre Washington, Kim
Aiken Jr. and Doctor Bradley with multiple counts of criminal sexual
penetration, criminal sexual conduct and false imprisonment. Washington
and Bradley could face 27 years in prison if convicted on 13 charges
apiece. Aiken could face 24 years on 11 charges.

In announcing the indictments, the state attorney general did not release
the names of the victims. Earlier this week, two former players and a
student manager filed a civil lawsuit against the school, athletic
director Mario Moccia and former coaches, along with Washington, Aiken and
Bradley, contending they were sexually assaulted and threatened with guns
in the New Mexico State locker room.

Those allegations were similar to others lodged by former players Deuce
Benjamin and Shak Odunewu in a lawsuit the school settled for $8 million
earlier this year.

The lawsuits described a “humbling" ritual in which the defendants would
pull down the victims' pants and sometimes grab their genitals. The
descriptions were in line with findings in the school's recently completed
Title IX investigation into the same players.

Thursday marked the first criminal charges stemming from what the school
initially called a hazing incident. The indictments recount episodes
dating from August to November 2022 in which the defendants are accused
"of holding younger players and student staff against their will while
they violated them. Alleged acts included multiple incidents in which they
forcefully restrained victims while violently grabbing their genital
area.”

All three players are also charged with second-degree sexual penetration,
which by itself is punishable by up to nine years in prison.

Their first court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 22 in Dona Ana County,
where New Mexico State is based. No attorneys were listed for the players.

Neither Washington nor Aiken found new teams after leaving New Mexico
State when the season was abruptly canceled, and the team disbanded in
February. Bradley signed with Nicholls State, though a university
spokesman there told TV station KTSM on Thursday that Bradley was no
longer on the team.

State Attorney General Raúl Torrez has also been looking into the school's
handling of the events that led to the team's season being canceled.

Players, coaches and administrators “should also be aware that while this
action is an important first step in addressing this inexcusable behavior,
our work in correcting the culture that allowed these crimes to occur is
far from finished,” Torrez said in a statement.

Nobody has been charged in the death of a University of New Mexico student
shot by Aggies forward Mike Peake, who was ruled to have been acting in
self-defense. Carrying guns on campus or on school-sponsored trips is
against university policy and is a misdemeanor in New Mexico.


--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.

Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.

No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.

President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.