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<p><font size="+1">This story appeared in the Washington Post feed
just a moment ago.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">The story was written by Michael E. Miller, a
foreign affairs reporter,</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">which may indicate something about how that paper
views Idaho.<br>
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<p><font size="+1">Here's a link: </font><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/jbo2le8">http://tinyurl.com/jbo2le8</a></b></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/2016 12:36 PM, Janesta wrote:<br>
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<div>Courtesy of today's (May 25, 2016) <i>Idaho
Statesman</i> at:</div>
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<h1 style="font-size:52px;margin:10px 0px
35px;font-family:'McClatchy
Slab',Georgia,Times,'Times New
Roman',serif;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.3;padding:0px">Idaho
football players raped black, disabled teammate,
suit claims</h1>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">When
a teammate held out his arms after football
practice in their high school locker-room, the
boy thought he was about to get a hug. Instead,
he got viciously raped, authorities say.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">As
the teammate restrained the boy, another
football player allegedly thrust a coat hanger
into the boy’s rectum. Then a third teammate
kicked the coat hanger several times, according
to a criminal complaint.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
Oct. 23, 2015, incident has rocked the tiny town
of Dietrich. This spring, after several months
of investigation, the state Attorney General’s
office filed sexual assault charges against all
three alleged attackers. Two of the teenagers
are being charged as adults and could face life
in prison, under Idaho law.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Earlier
this month, the case took an even darker turn
when the boy’s family filed a $10 million
lawsuit against Dietrich High School.</span></p>
<h3
style="line-height:1.25em;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px"><font
size="3"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Suit
alleges months of abuse<span></span></span></font></h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">According
to the lawsuit, the alleged rape wasn’t a
one-off but rather the culmination of months of
racist abuse by white students against the boy,
who is black.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
boy “was taunted and called racist names by
other members of the team which names included
‘Kool-Aid’ ‘chicken eater’ ‘watermelon’ and [the
N-word],” the suit alleges.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
civil complaint filed in the U.S. District Court
in Idaho also claims that one of the students
charged with sexual assault displayed a
Confederate flag and demanded the boy recite a
racist song titled “Notorious KKK.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">All
three of the boy’s attackers were white, the
suit says.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
suit, which names the 18-year-old boy, was
provided to The Washington Post by his attorney.
However, The Post generally does not name
victims of sexual assault.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In
addition to Dietrich High School, the lawsuit
also names 11 employees as defendants. It claims
school administrators and coaches did nothing to
stop the racial and physical abuse towards the
boy, who was especially vulnerable due to
“mental disorders including learning
disabilities.”</span></p>
<h3
style="line-height:1.25em;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px"><font
size="3"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">‘Catcalls,
taunts and racial epithets’<span></span></span></font></h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
suit even claims that Dietrich football coaches
encouraged other players to fight the boy,
allowing a much larger student to knock the boy
unconscious as other students shouted “catcalls,
taunts and racial epithets.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dietrich
High School did not respond to a request for
comment.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Against
the alleged backdrop of widespread racial abuse
at Dietrich, one individual stands out: John
R.K. Howard.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Howard,
18, is one of the three students accused of
sexually assaulting the boy with the coat
hanger. He is charged as an adult with one count
of forcible penetration by use of force or a
foreign object, according to the criminal
complaint.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
lawsuit paints Howard as the ringleader of the
racist abuse against the boy, who was adopted at
age four by white parents living in the
predominantly white town of 334 people.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">When
a teammate held out his arms after football
practice in their high school locker-room, the
boy thought he was about to get a hug. Instead,
he got viciously raped, authorities say.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">As
the teammate restrained the boy, another
football player allegedly thrust a coat hanger
into the boy’s rectum. Then a third teammate
kicked the coat hanger several times, according
to a criminal complaint.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
Oct. 23, 2015, incident has rocked the tiny town
of Dietrich. This spring, after several months
of investigation, the state Attorney General’s
office filed sexual assault charges against all
three alleged attackers. Two of the teenagers
are being charged as adults and could face life
in prison, under Idaho law.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Earlier
this month, the case took an even darker turn
when the boy’s family filed a $10 million
lawsuit against Dietrich High School.</span></p>
<h3
style="line-height:1.25em;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px"><font
size="3"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Suit
alleges months of abuse<span></span></span></font></h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">According
to the lawsuit, the alleged rape wasn’t a
one-off but rather the culmination of months of
racist abuse by white students against the boy,
who is black.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
boy “was taunted and called racist names by
other members of the team which names included
‘Kool-Aid’ ‘chicken eater’ ‘watermelon’ and [the
N-word],” the suit alleges.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
civil complaint filed in the U.S. District Court
in Idaho also claims that one of the students
charged with sexual assault displayed a
Confederate flag and demanded the boy recite a
racist song titled “Notorious KKK.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">All
three of the boy’s attackers were white, the
suit says.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
suit, which names the 18-year-old boy, was
provided to The Washington Post by his attorney.
However, The Post generally does not name
victims of sexual assault.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In
addition to Dietrich High School, the lawsuit
also names 11 employees as defendants. It claims
school administrators and coaches did nothing to
stop the racial and physical abuse towards the
boy, who was especially vulnerable due to
“mental disorders including learning
disabilities.”</span></p>
<h3
style="line-height:1.25em;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px"><font
size="3"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">‘Catcalls,
taunts and racial epithets’<span></span></span></font></h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
suit even claims that Dietrich football coaches
encouraged other players to fight the boy,
allowing a much larger student to knock the boy
unconscious as other students shouted “catcalls,
taunts and racial epithets.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dietrich
High School did not respond to a request for
comment.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Against
the alleged backdrop of widespread racial abuse
at Dietrich, one individual stands out: John
R.K. Howard.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Howard,
18, is one of the three students accused of
sexually assaulting the boy with the coat
hanger. He is charged as an adult with one count
of forcible penetration by use of force or a
foreign object, according to the criminal
complaint.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
lawsuit paints Howard as the ringleader of the
racist abuse against the boy, who was adopted at
age four by white parents living in the
predominantly white town of 334 people.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Mr.
Howard is a large and aggressive male who had
been sent to live with his relatives in Idaho
due to his inability to keep out of trouble in
Texas,” the complaint says. “Mr. Howard is a
relative of prominent individuals in the
community and, at least in part due to his
athletic ability and community connections, the
Defendants ignored or were deliberately
indifferent to the behavior of Mr. Howard which
included aggression, taunting and bullying of
The Plaintiff and other students in the
District. With deliberate indifference, the
Defendants did nothing to curb the vicious acts
of Mr. Howard who brought with him from Texas a
culture of racial hatred towards the Plaintiff.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
boy, one of the few black students at Dietrich
and the only African American on his football
team, was subjected to frequent abuse by Howard
and his fellow teammates, including “aggressive
‘humping’, jumping on him from the back and
simulating anal sex,” according to the suit. His
fellow football players allegedly gave him
painful wedgies, stripped him of his clothes and
took naked photos of him in the locker room. One
student drew a picture of the boy sitting in the
back of the bus on a classroom chalkboard.</span></p>
<h3
style="line-height:1.25em;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px"><font
size="3"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Portrait
of an alleged ringleader<span></span></span></font></h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It
was Howard, however, who was allegedly behind
the worst abuse.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It
was Howard who allegedly forced the boy to
recite the words to “Notorious KKK,” a bitterly
racist and violent rap song set to the tune of
Notorious B.I.G.’s “Can’t You See,” the suit
alleges.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It
was Howard who, with his bare fists, allegedly
knocked out the boy, who was made to wear boxing
gloves, as teammates and coaches formed a circle
around them.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">And
it was Howard who allegedly kicked the coat
hanger five or six times, causing the boy
“rectal injuries” that required hospital
treatment, the lawsuit claims.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Another
player, 17-year-old wide receiver Tanner Ward,
has also been charged as an adult with forcible
penetration, according to local news website <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://magicvalley.com/" title=""
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">MagicValley.com</a>.
According to the lawsuit, Ward, “physically
forced a coat hanger into the Plaintiff’s
rectum” before Howard kicked it.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Facebook
photos show Ward participating in cowboy
competitions. A quick-footed wide receiver, he
has his own web page on <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://hudl.com"
target="_blank">hudl.com</a> devoted to
highlights of his football prowess.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">A
lawyer representing Ward did not return requests
for comment.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">A
third football player, age 16, has been charged
as a juvenile. His name has not been released.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Last
month, during a preliminary hearing in the case
against Ward, the boy testified how he had been
tricked with kindness moments before the cruel
attack.</span></p>
<h3
style="line-height:1.25em;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px"><font
size="3"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">‘A
pain I’ve never felt’<span></span></span></font></h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The
boy said Howard and Ward started harassing him
before practice on Oct. 22, giving him a “power
wedgie” so violent it tore his boxers.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">After
practice, when the third teammate asked the boy
for a hug, the boy agreed, only for the teammate
to restrain him and signal for the others to
attack, the boy said.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“I
screamed,” he testified, according to <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://magicvalley.com" target="_blank">MagicValley.com</a>.
“I was pretty upset. I felt really bad. A little
bit betrayed and confused at the same time. It
was terrible — a pain I’ve never felt.”</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Ward’s
attorney argued that the boy’s testimony
conflicted with that of another witness, but
Judge Mark Ingram allowed the case to continue.
Ward’s trial is scheduled to begin on Sept. 26.
The Lincoln County Clerk’s Office could not say
Tuesday whether he had filed a plea.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:1.5em"><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Howard,
who is finishing high school in Texas, has a
preliminary hearing set for June 10 and has not
yet entered a plea.</span></p>
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