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Hazing Charged Dropped on Technicality
By ABC 11
Hazing charges against five Methodist College football players and two other men have been dropped after lawyers argued the charges violated separation of church and state.
One of the players was charged with sodomizing a student with a magic marker, and the other six suspects were charged with misdemeanor hazing.
According to a police report, 18-year-old Kent Murphy was pinned to a locker room floor and stripped by teammates after a practice in November. The report says teammates tried to write on his backside with a marker and he was sexually assaulted with it.
The players' lawyers successfully argued that because the school is a religious institution, the campus police cannot enforce state law, and they violated separation of church and state when they arrested the students for violating a North Carolina law.
The case will now be turned over to the Cumberland County Sheriff's office.
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