High School Girls Haze With Feces, Paint
N O R T H B R O O K, Ill., May 7 -- A "powder puff" football game between senior and junior girls in suburban Chicago turned ugly when older girls dumped paint and human feces onto the underclassmen, and five girls landed in the hospital with injuries.
The girls attend Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Ill. But the game, held Sunday, is an annual event held in a wooded area off school property — beyond the control of school officials.
About 50 to 60 students were watching the post-game melee, and some captured it on videotape. Zac Blum, a senior at the school, described the hazing-style ritual that followed the game.
"The senior girls were kicking and pushing the junior girls, kind of beating them up, throwing paint at them, throwing paint cans at them," Blum, 18, told Good Morning America.
Blum said human feces and paint was dumped on the underclassmen. The girls were seen on video of the event kneeling in a field, and didn't seem to resist. One girl who was hit on the head with a paint can required stitches, but the girls were so caked in various substances that the blood was not even visible.
Smeared Feces, Fish Guts
The video shows seniors throwing bottles, plastic bins, plastic paint containers — anything and everything — into a sort of mosh pit of junior girls, clearly hitting the girls in their heads, in some instances. The older girls are also seen striking the juniors and pushing them down, smearing fish guts and human feces into their faces.
No one seems to help the younger girls, though at one point a small group crowds around one girl, who apparently injured her ankle.
After some of the girls got hurt, the melee subsided. Five girls — two 16-year-olds, two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old — went to the hospital. One suffered a broken ankle and another had to get sutures on her head.
The school is cooperating with police investigators in helping to identify teens in the tape. Police have also been visiting the school to interview students about what happened. At this point, though, no criminal charges have been filed.
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