Idaho justice for the well-connected
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 5:40 pm
Must be nice to be white and know the right people so you can get out of jail time for:
Penalty?on October 23, 2015 when Howard, Tanner Ward and a third football player who cannot be named because he is a juvenile, pretended to give the disabled victim a hug. That is when they held him down and sodomized him with a coat hanger.
According to reports, the juvenile attacker then “kicked the coat hanger several times, forcing it farther into the victim’s body and causing rectal injuries that required treatment at a hospital.”
Accountable means a few hundred hours of community service. Civil suit pending.“We don’t believe it’s appropriate for Mr. Howard to suffer the consequences of a sex offender,” Hemmer stated. “But he still needs to be held accountable.”
“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,” according to the civil lawsuit. “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.”