Six Cottonwood High School students on Monday were arrested and charged with hazing related to a March 17 incident.
The six students -- two adults and four juveniles -- turned themselves into police custody in Geneva County Monday, Geneva County Sheriff Greg Ward said.
The alleged hazing incident happened on a bus trip back from a baseball game in Geneva County. Geneva County District Attorney Kirke Adams said the students are accused of pushing members of the junior varsity baseball team’s faces into their buttocks as part of an “initiation.” Some of the students are also alleged to have touched the victims with their genitals and anuses.
“This went far beyond making someone wear a sheet to school,” Adams said.
The students were expelled from the Houston County Schools and required to attend alternative school 45 days.
Hazing is a class C misdemeanor and is punishable by up to three months in jail.
Adams said law enforcement is investigating the matter further to see if the coach on the bus with the students may be liable for their conduct.
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