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UPDATE: Mitt Romney’s campaign reaches out to former classmates to defend him

As a high school senior at an elite all-boys boarding school, former governor Mitt Romney bullied a presumed gay teen, having his friends hold the boy down while he cut off his hair, the Washington Post reports.

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The incident was told to the newspaper independently by five students, one who said that Romney, the son of then-Michigan governor George Romney, had it out for a younger boy because of his long bleached-blond hair.

One day in 1965 Romney had his friends tackle the boy, named as the now-deceased John Lauber, while he repeatedly cut his hair with scissors. Lauber cried and repeatedly called for help during the incident, the report said.

“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” Thomas Buford, a retired prosecutor, told the Washington Post.

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