Students held schoolmates down, filmed assaults involving sex toys, MD cops say
Five Maryland high school students are facing criminal charges after authorities said they investigated similar assaults against two schoolmates that were filmed inside a boys’ locker room involving sex toys.
Two of the five teens took part in both attacks at Brunswick High School in April, according to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies with the sheriff’s office were first called to the school on April 11, when a student was approached in the locker room and assaulted “on the buttocks with a rubber penis sex toy while he was fully clothed” by another student, the sheriff’s office said in a June 9 news release.
Then, three more students held the student being attacked down and “forced the sex toy into his mouth,” according to authorities, who said “a fourth student filmed the assault using his phone.”
The parents of the student who was attacked on April 11 filed a lawsuit against school officials in late May, saying their son was sexually assaulted by his teammates on the Brunswick High School boys’ lacrosse team, WTOP-FM reported.
Detectives investigating the incident learned of another attack in the locker room a week earlier, according to the sheriff’s office.
On April 3, two teens held down a different student and tried “to force a sex toy into the victim’s mouth while another student recorded the incident,” the sheriff’s office said.
Both assaults are not considered hazing, according to authorities.
A 17-year-old, two 16-year-olds and two 15-year-olds are each charged with second-degree assault, the sheriff’s office said.
The 17-year-old also faces a fourth-degree sex offense and two counts of visual surveillance of a private area, according to authorities.
One of the 15-year-olds faces an additional count of second-degree assault, authorities said.
“After a thorough review with the Frederick County State’s Attorney’s Office,” the sheriff’s office said the charges were brought against five students “through juvenile referrals to the Department of Juvenile Services.”
In a statement shared with McClatchy News on June 10 on behalf of Frederick County Public Schools’ Associate Superintendent of Public Affairs Dr. Eric Louérs-Phillips, he said that “as a practice, we do not comment on matters related to pending litigation or personnel issues.”
Frederick County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Dyson and Brunswick High School Principal Eric Schwarzenegger didn’t immediately return McClatchy News’ request for comment June 10.
Frederick County is about a 55-mile drive northwest from Baltimore.
This story was originally published June 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM with the headline "Students held schoolmates down, filmed assaults involving sex toys, MD cops say."
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