6 high school football players sentenced in hazing case
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Prosecutors say six of the seven football players accused of hazing and sexual assaulting four other teammates in a New Jersey high school locker room have been placed on probationary terms.
Each of the Sayreville War Memorial players will also have to serve 50 hours of community service. But they will not have to register as sex offenders.
The sentences were announced Monday night. They were imposed by a Family Court judge after four of the six players pleaded guilty to child endangerment and hazing.
Those four were placed on probation for two years. The two others received a year of probation following a Family Court trial in which they were found delinquent.
The seventh player is awaiting a Family Court trial.
CBS New York reports some of the players had faced more serious counts -- including aggravated sexual assault and aggravated assault but those charges were dropped. Prosecutors decided not to charge the boys as adults.
The team's 2014 season was canceled days before the players were accused. In the wake of the scandal, the team's coach George Najjar was reportedly removed from the team and now works at an elementary school as opposed to the high school.