Teen boys injured in brutal hazing incident

[Alan C.]

Wash. teen boys injured in brutal hazing incident; group banned (with video)

A group of teens were found injured in a wooded area in Bothell after an apparent school-related hazing incident on Monday night, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said.

About 10:40 p.m. deputies responded to the 23900 block of Carter Road after receiving a report of young men yelling in a large wooded area.

Deputies arrived to find a dozen teens who ranged in age from 16 to 18 years old, Lt. Jeff Brand said.

All the teens were current or former students of Inglemoor High School in Kenmore, Brand said. The hazing of seven juniors by five recent graduates was an initiation rite for "Naked Vikings," a group not officially sanctioned by the school, but the school allowed it to cheer at football and basketball games.

James Walvatnee, Sr. said his son, James Walvatnee, Jr., a junior at the school, was one of the underclassmen who was brutally beaten.

Walvatnee, Sr. said his son was burned with cigarettes and cigars, had urine thrown on him and as well as eggs, and got hit with a headless golf club and PVC pipe.

"He didn't know it was that kind of brutality but he says he couldn't say anything because if he said something he couldn't be a Naked Vik," Walvatnee, Sr. said.

When police arrived they observed that some of the teens were dressed only in shorts. Others were bent over a log when deputies first found them and some of them had open wounds from being struck with switches and other items.

A few also appeared to be suffering from hypothermia so medical aid cars were called to the scene.

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[Joey M]

This is horrible. Of course the police department isn't taking any action until one of the boys that committed the crime comes forward. How stupid is that? They brutalized kids and yet the assaulters are the ones that need to come forward before the police can act upon it. They even said "if one of them doesn't come forward, this case may never be closed." Typical pathetic bureaucracy.

[Guest darkskyabove]

Don't take this as defending the police, but the article did say that none of the victims would identify their attackers.

[Joey M]

 

Don't take this as defending the police, but the article did say that none of the victims would identify their attackers.

 

The kid in the video did say who the group was that did it to them, and so did his parents.

[Guest darkskyabove]

Would you advocate arresting any, and all, members, and suspected members, of the "Naked Vikings"?

[Joey M]

 

Would you advocate arresting any, and all, members, and suspected members, of the "Naked Vikings"?

 

I would at least want them questioned and the case be taken more seriously by the police department than them just sitting on their hands until one of them comes forward.

[Lowe D]

This is horrible. Of course the police department isn't taking any action until one of the boys that committed the crime comes forward.

Are consensual beatings a crime?  I don't think so.

H/e it is a crime to hurt a boy to the extent that he would do this to someone else, later in life.

 

 

[Joey M]

 

This is horrible. Of course the police department isn't taking any action until one of the boys that committed the crime comes forward.

Are consensual beatings a crime?  I don't think so.

H/e it is a crime to hurt a boy to the extent that he would do this to someone else, later in life.

 

 

 

They wanted to do the initiation for the club, but they didn't know that it would lead to such a terrible beating. The one student that was shown his back was the one that didn't consent to the beatings. I would at least want the names of the boys that did this to them out there to ruin their reputation.