TWO private schoolboys are in prison just weeks after completing their HSC year on charges of having gang raped an 18-year-old girl at a New Year’s Eve party.

Norman Massimino and Beshoi Butros, both 18, graduated from Patrician Brothers Catholic College in December.

The two friends and basketball fans are both immigrant Australians from the South Sudanese community at Blacktown in western Sydney.

Beshoi Butros in particular dreamt of becoming a college basketball star.

The teenagers and a 17-year-old whose name is suppressed have been charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault in company and refused bail.

Police allege that on New Year’s Eve, Massimino, Butros and the unnamed boy went to an apartment block in Prospect, a western Sydney suburb a short drive from Blacktown.

The 18-year-old girl attended the party with friends on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve.

Between 10pm on December 31 and 2.40am on New Year’s Day, police allege the three young men sexually assaulted the girl in a bedroom of one of the Prospect flats.

Police were called and Massimino and Butros were ­arrested at the flat in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Appearing in Penrith Local Court on Monday, the two were remanded in custody to appear via video link from prison on January 13.

Pastor Eiliya Basha told news.com.au that Norman Massimino had emigrated from South Sudan 11 years ago and came from “a good family” in Blacktown’s Sudanese community.

Both Butros and Massimino are online friends with a basketball player in local Blacktown team, and Butros follows the US NBA team, Oklahoma City Thunder.

Butros comments constantly on his social media account about being bored and not wanting to go to school, which he calls “patties jail”, other than to make the college basketball team.