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No time in custody.

For ganging up and sexually assaulting two vulnerable victims with a broomstick in a disgusting hazing mob attack at St. Michael’s College School, no time in custody. For gleefully causing these boys’ violation, their humiliation, their depression — no time in custody.

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Nothing. No time at all in a youth jail facility. No interruption at all to Christmas at home with their families. Just two years of probation.

What kind of message does that send about male violence and sexual assault?

All three teens were former students of the exclusive, all-boys’ Catholic private academy with parents with deep pockets to afford expensive lawyers. So it’s hard not to wonder — would the sentencing have been different if this assault had taken place at some inner-city school?

It’s difficult to imagine that it would not.

All three had pleaded guilty to one count each of sexual assault with a weapon and assault with a weapon. In addition, one teen pleaded guilty to one count of making child pornography for recording one of the assaults on his cellphone.