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 Six of the seven teenagers from Sayreville War Memorial High
School were arrested on Friday evening in connection with four
assaults on four different students last month, the Times reported,
citing Middlesex County prosecutor Andrew Carey. Police are still
searching for the seventh teen, the Times reported.
Three of the defendants were charged with an array of sexual assault
and hazing charges, while one of those three and the four others
were charged with aggravated assault, aggravated criminal sexual
contact, and other crimes, the Times said.
The high school, which has about 1,700 students, canceled the
remaining games for its freshman, junior varsity and varsity
football teams, Moreen Proudman, a school district spokeswoman, said
on Tuesday.
 Reported incidents of intimidation and other bullying involving
football players at the school were largely allowed by the players,
said Richard Labbe, the schools superintendent for Sayreville
borough.
The incidents "took place on a pervasive level, a wide-scale level
and on a level in which the players knew, tolerated and generally
accepted," Labbe told reporters at a news conference on Monday
night.
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The Sayreville Bombers varsity football team has won three state
sectional championships and the head coach, George Najjar, was
inducted into the New Jersey Football Coaches Association Hall of
Fame.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Richard
Borsuk)
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