The sickening attack was said to be the culmination of severe bullying at school.
The boy was forced to keep the alleged attack and daily bullying a secret, afraid the gang would target his younger sibling.(Image: Getty Images)
A teenage boy was allegedly gang raped by five of his classmates during a school trip, leaving him in a catatonic state.
The victim, now 16, was just 13 years old when the horror incident occurred during the sports trip to Malaga, Spain. He was forced to keep quiet about the abuse he suffered out of fear the group would target his younger brother.
The bullying had started at his school in Valencia, with the youths, three of them under 14 at the time, mocking his acne and glasses and excluding him from social activities. Things spiralled into the alleged attack in March 2022.
He is said to have been ambushed in a hotel corridor before being forced into a bathroom and locked in, while some members of the gang raped him while the others encouraged them, the Mirror reports.
According to a reconstruction of the sickening turn of events, some of those involved had said: “let him suffer, let him suffer, I want to see him suffer.”
The teen was reportedly blackmailed into keeping quiet while suffering humiliation every day, and received 300 malicious phone calls from one of the perpetrators, with more threats sent via social media.
He endured it for another two months before collapsing in his mother’s arms and falling into a catatonic state. The trauma is said to have caused amnesia, which he has since sought help for from a psychologist.
Spanish media reported that he also suffers from “chronic post-traumatic stress disorder with severe episodes of dissociative amnesia”.
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He was taken to hospital, and admitted a further three times over 35 days. The psychologist raised the alarm, reporting the alleged incident and abuse to the boy’s school and the police.
The teen was able to remember his alleged attackers’ names in his first appointment with the psychologist, but could not recall all the details. Two years later, one person was charged in Valencia’s Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, and could face 15 months locked up if found guilty.
The others said to be involved were either too young to be charged with a criminal offence, or their involvement has not yet been proven.
According to MailOnline, a teacher at the victim’s school said: “Everyone at school knows a student was raped. The principal banned trips and overnight activities outside of Valencia after the complaint, ten children in the same grade left the school, and the members of the parent-teacher association resigned.”