GA - Trent Lehrkamp, 19, victim of extreme hazing, St. Simons Island, 21 Mar 2023

[ifindedout]

Disorderly house:

2020 Georgia Code :: Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses :: Chapter 11 - Offenses Against Public Order and Safety :: Article 2 - Offenses Against Public Order :: § 16-11-44. Maintaining a Disorderly House

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[SuziQ]

I don't believe for a minute that a person who was breathing 16 times per minute was in any way lucid enough to agree to the level of intoxication he was at. I smell a coverup.

I'm not buying it either.

 

[SuziQ]

I feel like Higgens did a lot of downplaying and victim blaming. Imo.

 

[MyJoey]

This case is so frightening to me. I have a 12 year old son who is “friends” with the popular boy group in school. And by “friends” I mean, he is allowed to be a part of their group text chat but 50% of the time they’re just making fun of him. Also, by “friends” I mean they will occasionally let him go to their house to hang out, but half the time it ends in him getting de-pantsed, teased, body-slammed, etc. And yet, he goes back for more. Over and over. We try to talk to him about what real friends are like, how he shouldn’t let people treat him like a doormat, how he needs to have some self-respect, etc. Sometimes we even go the tough love route and either ban him from hanging out with them or straight up telling him that they aren’t his friends and they just want him around to pick on him.

It’s so frustrating to see your child willingly and knowingly put themselves into harmful situations and it scares me to think that these “friends” of my son’s could escalate their behavior to this level in just a few years.

When my son was that age he was painfully shy and pretty much hung with neighborhood kids. We were a busy family and spent lots of weekends on dirt bikes or out on the river boating. One thing he loved was roller skating, he would be upset if we were 5 minutes late getting him to the rink. Try and get your son into an activity away from these “friends”. Sign him up for boxing classes, or anything that he would enjoy to keep him busy. School sports are helpful also, they make new friends when they are on teams.

 

[Tealgrove]

Something smells here. MOO

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Is the alleged video available? Thank you.

Based on the photo from the link on page 1, 1st post in this thread, it is my opinion he did not consent to much of what happened to him.

IF he did willingly drink alcohol at first, (IMO to "fit in") then he became too vulnerable to "consent" to abusive treatment.

It makes more sense to me that they hosed him off to try to get rid of evidence before taking him to the hospital than that he said yeah, sure, spray me down with cold water from a hose.

Once in high school I was at a party with alcohol. We sang karaoke and played music. No one was harmed. These teenagers are dangerous people. The victim- blaming and under-reaction in this case isn't acceptable.
My opinions only.

 

[evilwise]

Is the alleged video available? Thank you.

Based on the photo from the link on page 1, 1st post in this thread, it is my opinion he did not consent to much of what happened to him.

IF he did willingly drink alcohol at first, (IMO to "fit in") then he became too vulnerable to "consent" to abusive treatment.

It makes more sense to me that they hosed him off to try to get rid of evidence before taking him to the hospital than that he said yeah, sure, spray me down with cold water from a hose.

Once in high school I was at a party with alcohol. We sang karaoke and played music. No one was harmed. These teenagers are dangerous people. The victim- blaming and under-reaction in this case isn't acceptable.
My opinions only.

The incident in which he was hosed was a previous one, not the incident in which he ended up needing to go to the hospital.

 

[Emerald1328]

When my son was that age he was painfully shy and pretty much hung with neighborhood kids. We were a busy family and spent lots of weekends on dirt bikes or out on the river boating. One thing he loved was roller skating, he would be upset if we were 5 minutes late getting him to the rink. Try and get your son into an activity away from these “friends”. Sign him up for boxing classes, or anything that he would enjoy to keep him busy. School sports are helpful also, they make new friends when they are on teams.

The unfortunate thing about sports teams is these kids are on the teams too, even in rec league. He adores playing sports so it’s unfortunately not something he can avoid. Although I think he’s going to be forced to avoid it eventually. Our school district seems to pick those popular kids or kids with influential parents or siblings to be on the school sports teams so I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t make the cut, regardless of his skill. I’ve thought about signing him up for boxing or karate, something he can do own his own to get away from them for awhile so that’s a good idea. He has started to take golf lessons which is going really well!

 

[arielilane]

I checked in with Trent Lehrkamp's family last week. Trent continues his recovery at an out-of-state treatment center. His family says they are still waiting for answers from Glynn County Police investigators. We are too ...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1656671778541047808

5/11/2023

https://twitter.com/BBuffingtonNews

 

[branmuffin]

I checked in with Trent Lehrkamp's family last week. Trent continues his recovery at an out-of-state treatment center. His family says they are still waiting for answers from Glynn County Police investigators. We are too ...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1656671778541047808

5/11/2023

https://twitter.com/BBuffingtonNews

Things sure go s-l-o-w in Georgia.