HOUSTON - Prosecutors won't seek hate-crime charges against two white teens accused of brutally beating and sodomizing a 16-year-old Hispanic boy after he tried to kiss a young girl, officials said.
Authorities said the two dragged the boy from a house party Saturday and into the yard, where they sodomized him with a plastic pipe from a patio table umbrella and poured bleach on him. Trent on Friday described the pipe as being sharpened at one end and said Tuck stomped on the boy with steel-toe boots and kicked the pipe into him.
At one point, the teens tried to carve something on the boy's chest with a knife, he told CNN Friday.
"I don't know that the very beginning of the attack was racial," Trent said, "but there's no question that they were venting quite a bit of hatred in their hearts."
Investigators said the attack happened at an unsupervised house party in Spring after the 16-year-old tried to kiss a
12-year-old Hispanic girl.
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The victim, whose name was not released, suffered severe internal injuries, cuts on his chest and head injuries.
"It's about 50-50 whether he lives or dies at this point," Trent said.
Investigators said no adults were supervising the party, where they found evidence of the use of marijuana and the sedative Xanax.
Denholm said the 12-year-old girl and her older brother witnessed the attack, but made no effort to stop it.
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