Five DeMatha Catholic High School football players were removed from the program for an incident that occurred at the team hotel following the Stags’ season-opening win at Hillside (N.C.), according to two people with knowledge of the incident, including the parent of one of the players who withdrew from the school.

According to the parent, players hired prostitutes from a call service in North Carolina, and some engaged in sexual activities with those prostitutes in a hotel room. According to the two people with knowledge of the situation, the incident occurred at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning after DeMatha’s Friday night game.

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I wanted to know how other people who are not involved with the school felt about this. I feel that many people are saying "Boys will be boys" and that these boys will only get a slap on the wrist(maybe a small bout of suspension) and then it will be swept under the rug to protect the school's reputation.

A bit about the school, Dematha High School is a very well-off, private, catholic high school in a bit of a bad county school system wise(one bordering DC). They may be the nicest High School in our county(not counting their sister school).

I feel that these boys deserve criminal consequences, just because they are teenagers shouldn't mean they receive no consequences(as some are currently suggesting), there should still be something to show them that this was wrong.

The max. penalty in my county is one year in jail and/or $500 in fines for buying(?) a prostitute.

I would like this thread to become a place for discussion on the penalty the boys should receive(if any), prostitution and its pros and cons in a modern society, and if in fact, "boys will be boys," among other issues related to this incident.

I am unable to find laws regarding prostitution in the county the players were in, but I'm assuming that they are similar to my county's laws.

>>2 There are federal and state laws which supercede county laws.

Absolutely disgusting. I hate football players, they are always doing things like this. I have absolutely no faith in humanity. Everyone is just a bunch of morons who can not control their grotesque sexual instincts. Has the evolution of the mind been for naught!? Sorry, I do not mean to sound so aggressive and mean, but I can not stand stupidity, especially when it is in regard to a sexual nature. If you are not mature enough to reproduce, you are not mature enough to have sex. THAT SHOULD BE A LAW!

>>4 Yeah, because you have the god-given right to say who does and doesn't have the right to have sex. And I mean it's not like you generalized every last football player ever, because you must personally know every last one. You're an arrogant prick.

>>3 I feel so stupid. North Carolina's laws regarding prostitution are 45 days in jail or a small fine.

>>4 No, I'm pretty sure you meant to sound aggressive and mean. I was hoping this would be a place for a discussion not a rant. You want a law regarding which people can't have sex? Good luck getting that passed ( -_-) How would they enforce this? Like, seriously?

>>4 You're ignorant to think every football player is like this.

You said it should be a law that you have to be mature to have sex. What's next, taking away the right to reproduce because they are of an "inferior" race? That's the kind of shit that made the Nazis infamous you know. They took a group of people's rights away because they thought they were inferior.

Now do us all a favor and go die in a hole.

>>4 Im sorry,but you did kinda make a genralization about football players.Now trust me when I say Im not exactly popular,but I have alot of friends and most of the popular kids know my name.Im even friends with one of the popular jocl guys,luke,who's super nice.Not all of them are complete douchbags.While I support some of your views,I also have to strongly disagree woth the others.

Is nobody else suspicious of >>4

>>9 I am...his username just yells at you to be suspicious.

>>10 My username is provocative of suspicion? Luciferus - Because that is my name and Hellsing -Because I am a fan of the anime/manga series Hellsing. I can see that my strong opinions have made a lot of people angry. I am sorry for that, I did not mean to rant, but I DO have strong opinions. and I DO have personal reasons for them. So, I am sorry if I made anyone angry. Clearly, I live in a different world than all of you, so I must be careful what I say.

Okay its cool guys, he doesnt talk like a braindead moron. Im still keeping an eye on you though

>>11 If you're careful what you say, take particular care that you don't make broad generalizations that obviously aren't mostly true, and take SPECIAL care not to say some people do or don't have the right to do something that doesn't infringe on the rights/safety of others.

Honestly, why the fuck does it matter if they get laid by a couple of whores? Male of female, we all love sex, no sense in denying it.

>>9 >>10 >>12 I thought the same thing that you guys are thinking.
And if we are right on that, which I doubt, it will mean one thing:

Azazel is a legend of the internets.

>>14 You're exaggerating. Not EVERYONE loves sex.

>>14 There are the rare people that are asexual.

>>15 Your doubts are so far right, if we're considering his intro post: http://dollars-bbs.org/intro/res/1346721427.html

No emo loki pic, no FMA pic, it's just his name.

If they want to have sex with whores -- let them. Just broadcast it to everyone in their area though, so that every girlfriend they ever try to have will know what they're looking for in a relationship, and the possibility of they may have contracted STDs through one of their relationships.

>>20 That's an invasion of privacy, especially since they're minors.

Would you want all of your personal business broadcasted to everyone?

>>21 Honestly I'm probably not the best person to use that argument against because I couldn't exactly care less what society knows about me. And besides, everyone in that area likely already know the names of all of those students involved.

>>13 I have to agree.He does sound very smart and very educated,but not like he nows how to make a very good educated guess about society and the way it acts or processes things.

>>22 I'm actually in/very close to that area and I haven't heard names. I figure the only people who know are those in the school or those in the school who have told those outside.

I'm sure everyone there knows, but my friends there haven't said any names because it's a pretty tight-knit school from what I gather.

Clean sweep

I'm not surprised at all but its kinda ironical. They're 'so called' way of having fun ruined heir future.

>>4 While I don't agree with everything you say, I do agree with the privilege to reproduce being able to be taken away. If a person consistently proves that they don't have the capacity to take care of a child and continuously need outside help: Their privilege should be removed until they can prove otherwise.

>>27 The problem with this is there isn't really a way to stop people from reproducing "temporarily"(at least that I know of). You can tie tubes or snip some stuff, but that is permanent. You can't have govt. officials wasting time on making sure certain people take birth control each day.

If there was I gladly agree some people need it.

>>28 I kind of like China's rule. No more than two children per family. However, I'd probably increase it to two children per parent (for a total of four, and two for single mothers/fathers). In all honesty, I hate people like the Octo-mom. Having a whole bunch of children when you don't have another parent or guardian around is foolish and reckless.

>>29 Again, the problem is, how do you enforce it? I do agree, people shouldn't have very many children(four of five is probably the highest anyone should go), because you cannot give all of them the individual attention children need as well as the majority of these parents would be on financial aid from the government(octo-mom in a nutshell...)

>>30 You have to get a birth certificate for each child, so the law would be enforced then. And if they don't have a birth certificate, as far as the government is concerned the child isn't a United States citizen.

>>31 What would you do if people went over the max? It's not like we can just kill them or put them into an already overcrowded foster care system.

>>32 Foster care.

>>32 Foster care isn't always a good alternative. It's crowded and once your over five, you don't have a large chance of being adopted. And there's the fact that minorities are less likely to be adopted. Plus there are some foster home's that would be worse than if the child stayed with their biological parents.

Sure, the majority of the time it's a good thing, but it could turn out badly. And how can we ask parents which kid they want to toss away?

>>34 You don't ask. The first few that come out, you keep.

>>35 They're not toys from a crane game. It's not like you can just discard those you don't want. I can imagine lawsuits all over the place if this were the policy.

>>36 Then you shouldn't have had more children.

>>37 Yes, but that wouldn't stop people. They'd try and find ways to beat the system.

If this policy were to go in place, we would really have an over crowded foster system. We'd run out of place to stick kids. That brings up another issue, this policy would probably be the same for foster parents. I know of some foster parents that foster 5 or 6 middle/high schoolers, so even the large foster homes would become smaller and we'd have one less place to put these kids.

I'm also assuming orphanages would become a norm and those may be less appealing than foster care or a couple with 5 children.