19-year-old jock in ICU after being bound and tortured in hazing incident. FBI steps in.

What I find very odd is the part of this story that has to do with him going back to the house multiple times. Meaning he had been "hazed" like this before by the same people, but kept going back. The kids who did this to him are too young to be going into a frat, so it doesn't seem like it's related to that. If they have some kind of gang or party/drug crew it could be an initiation thing. I haven't seen any indication either that Trent is developmentally disabled or vulnerable, like, I don't think this is a case of sadists pretending to befriend a mentally challenged person so they can bully him. Something about this story is very strange. Aside from that, I can't believe the poor kid is even alive after consuming that much alcohol and other toxins. The community is really getting behind him, it seems like people suspect there could be some corruption protecting the perpetrators in this case.

I’ll be watching this thread for pictures to determine whether I feel sorry for him or not.

All I heard from the OP:

TOOOOXXXXXXXINNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS.

"Georgia police announced Monday that the FBI has joined the investigation into the horrific abuse of Trent Lehrkamp, 19, who remains hospitalized after a group of teens reportedly forced him to guzzle vodka, tied him to a chair and urinated on him."

"A few weeks prior, Mark said he had to take his son to the emergency room after visiting the same friend's home because he returned with a "severe laceration" above his left eye that needed stitches. Mark told police that his son kept going to the friend's home despite the abuse because he "has no other friends."

"He is accepted and with people he thinks care for him," Mark allegedly told police. The father said he had photos and video of all the past incidents of alleged assault."

From what the dad is saying it sounds like maybe Trent is somewhat disabled/vulnerable and this could be a case similar to that of Mary Collins - a developmentally disabled girl who was murdered and exploited by people pretending to be her friend. He's a handsome and very normal looking kid though and I feel like you can always sort of tell by the look. Maybe he was just naïve? I feel like there has to be something going on involving some kind of gang/crew/initiation like "you can't party here and hang with us unless you go through our rituals".

Sounds like they’re all just into it.

[quote] "These fine young men bound an unconscious and unresponsive boy to a chair, spray-painted him from head to toe, pissed on him, took a s--- in his lap and the list goes on and on.”

What the hell?

R2, since that came towards the end of their post, you heard/read all the rest.

R6 It’s a slippery slope!

R2, since that came towards the end of their post, you heard/read the rest.

1) where does it say he's a jock.

2) usually hazing is a term associated with college/university fraternities. Or initiation into some organisation or group. There is no college mentioned, no one is named a student. and no group with an initiation is mentioned.

Poor young man.

He probably just wants to belong to a circle of friends. But his "friends" are anything but and must be extreme trash and damaged to do this to another young man. (or to anyone). The kids who did this to him are damaged goods and criminals.

And I thought FL was bad...

Where are all you people who told me I should move to GA because it's purple--->>>blue?

[quote] Mark told police that his son kept going to the friend's home despite the abuse because he "has no other friends."

Sad that a 19 year old would believe he could only hang with abusive bullies who battered him. I hope all his "friends" go to an adult prison and get ass-raped.

UNLESS we find out that the victim was a neo-nazi and the other boys were progressive non-binaries engaged in political demonstration. In that case they should be exonerated.

R11

1) I decided myself based on his jawline and overall look 2) "hazing" is the term the police and FBI are using - they're referring to this as a "hazing incident"

Thread is useless without vid.

[quote]spray-painted him from head to toe, pissed on him, took a s--- in his lap and the list goes on and on.”

Backstage at Funny Girl again.

Did they film it for TicTok?

How many perpetrators were involved and what are their ages?

R15 here’s one it even shows some of the Snapchat story of him getting sprayed with I think wd 40? He’s bound with it looks like rags or a bag on his head maybe?

One of the bullies arrested and mugshot in this video, looks like a snobby rich kid

They said they identified all the young men in the photo, but who took the picture? Is there another perpetrator?

One of the attackers is the son of a cop I have heard.

This is so fucking heartbreaking. I hate people and if I never have to engage with these subhumans again, it wont bother me at all...

Pulled of off FB, the names of the “alleged” perps and who their parents are:

** Edited To Add Names of the ones involved: * Rooker Hobby (mother is realtor Angel Hobby. Father is Gary Hobby with Subaru of America) * Carson Nottingham (mother Regina Davis) * Leland Davis (wearing white hat - dad is Dustin Davis with Glynn County Police Dept) * Lucy Gowen (dad is Michael Gowen who owns SouthEast Adventures - Mom is Stacey Gowen) * Bri Lawrence * Jaxon Strother (parents allegedly present at time of incident. Owns Strother’s in pier village) * Kip Agnew (dad John Agnew - mom Jenn Agnew with the Brunswick news) * Jep Wray (parents Jep & Ginny Wray) * Riley Mason

Glynn county is also where Ahmaud Aubery was hunted down and killed. County officials then tried to cover it up.

South Georgia is an absolute hellhole.

This is heartbreaking...he seems to have just wanted some friends.

It's alarming how savage some people can be at the expense of others.

"Jep and Ginny Wray" sounds like a loathsome couple in the Sugarbakers' social circle on [italic]Designing Women.[/italic]

God. I love that they put the parents and their jobs in the list. More of this please.

Although Glynn County is about 100 miles from Alex Murdaugh’s stomping grounds, that whole area (the GA/SC Low Country) is really one big, rural, homogenous area. Shockingly backward.

I somewhat thought all the beach house development in the area might drag the region into the 20th (but not 21st) century. But apparently not.

My parents have a house near there. We were driving back from visiting my brother in Atlanta and had to stop at McDonald’s in Brunswick.

The people working there could barely talk. (No, there wasn’t a language barrier.) When we eventually got our food, it was inedible. How can McDonald’s food be screwed up?

There were random people just hanging out in the parking lot and skulking around the parking lots nearby. It was like the Twilight Zone.

America's accelerating schism between the haves and the smart, and the have nots and Cro-Mags. The cro-mags are rudderless, ignorant, feral pigs. Zero moral register.

According to Reddit, Trent’s mother died unexpectedly in March 2021.

Trent’s Dad is the charmer who kept driving his son yo the abusers’ house and commented in the press that he did do because his son “had no friends.”

Trent’s dad moved in with his girlfriend about 3 months after his wife (Trent’s mom) died in 2021. Left Trent behind. Trent would have been about 17 at the time.

So Trent’s dad is another enormous piece of shit in this scenario. No wonder the kid felt all alone and desperate for friends.

I feel sick.

Redditors are also saying that Trent is on the spectrum.

R32 he probably wanted to get fucked up and act out to cope with that stress and so he was trying really hard to impress the cool kids that partied the hardest. that's understandable. just the death of a parent at that age is an enormous trauma on its own, but his dad's scummy behavior too. he must have felt so confused and enraged. young people can be so naive, they don't understand how deeply sick and dangerous the antisocial behaviors of others really is. they might not understand that those kinds of kids aren't "badass" or "cool" and they're blind to what it really is - antisocial behavior.

This is sad and tragic. To believe that his peers would be so willing to abuse and torture him for their pleasure is astounding. If as R33 says, that he’s on the spectrum, this makes it even worse.

More about piece of shit dad. He’s apparently raising money off this tragedy, of course.

Maybe he can but Trent some food.

The perps sound like rich assholes—they all attend one of Georgia's top public high schools, Glynn Academy, which serves a wealthy area (the district includes St. Simons Island).

Don’t want to distract from focusing on the perps, but dad just oozes scumbag.

The mother's death should have a police review.

[quote]Redditors are also saying that Trent is on the spectrum.

They say that about [italic]everyone[/italic]!

Revolting.

[quote]r25 * Jaxon Strother (parents allegedly present at time of incident. Owns Strother’s in pier village) *

No names given for these parents?

Ugh, R33. Poor kid with a POS father. He has to be in the spectrum for him to keep going back there. Once again, his father is a complete POS.

It's sad. Less sad because he's a jock, but still sad.

He's not a jock. OP made that up.

Lonely, vulnerable & abandoned…exactly what predators like to hunt.

[quote] Redditors are also saying that Trent is on the spectrum.

No shit!

Pictures show Trent playing what looks like high school football R44

Trent is out of shape and not hot. And probably special needs. But if you must TROLL for attention, to meet YOUR needs, grossly at the expense of and in contrast to the needs of a victim of a heartbreaking crime, sure, he's a "jock".

R49 Alright I thought he looked like a muscular and sporty guy in the one and only picture I saw over and over again. I wasn't trolling or getting myself off, let it go. I deeplyregret my word selection at this point.

Oh don't worry R50. I was cosplaying as a cunt. I just feel empathy and sympathy for Trent and apparently many people do. There are Virgils and rallies for justice. I was a stickler because it would be kind to keep it accurate about Trent. We don't know much but it would be nice to know more how this ended up so horribly.

Tell me more about this Virgil fella, r51.

Rooker? Bri? Jep? Their parents are obviously trash.

Virgil is the hot guy at the vigil!

It didn't seem to be hazing. When I read OP's headline I figured it was a frat situation, but apparently not. And they'd done shit to him before.

Jesus. This is terrible. No confidence, trauma from his mom dying, no friends, a mere teen, no one to turn to, a POS dad, isolated, probably can't envision a better life at this point. It's like the experience of lots of gay kids (not all of course, don't want to stereotype), so I get why DL is horrified.

I think local people are going to befriend him and be kind to him when and if he gets out of the hospital.

I hope he can get out of that shithole town.

[quote]And they'd done shit to him before.

Literally.

so did anyone's dick get sucked or what?

r57 hopefully that will be the case. He needs help.

I can’t even read the story the personage so evil. This poor kid.

I meant perps but it changed it to personage and I like it better. -I am r62

I just read the article. Jesus Christ, the kid is going to die. He was described by a neighbor as a big teddy bear. A nice kid. That wasn’t hazing. That was a long drawn out prolonged torture. They aren’t under arrest why? Their dumb faces in the unedited photo. This is horrifying. The kid looks dead. Awful.

This case is horrifying. Not to make it about me, but my dad did something similar (mom died, dad moved in with girlfriend and left us kids to fend for ourselves aged 15 and 9.) Luckily I am a hard-as-nails asshole so my younger brother and I survived.

This poor kid (Trent) had no chance at all.

I hope that father burns in hell. He looks like a piece of shit hillbilly. Think I will write a letter to his employer and ask them why they employ trash.

This is where”journalism” is now. The word “hazing” has a meaning. The meaning is tha5 s9meone is going to engage in some kind of uncomfortable, antisocial behavior in order to fulfill the requirement to join an organization. That organization has a tradition of embarrassing others, causing them pain, making them engage in risky behavior in order to become a member. Both the organization and the individual agree to undertake this behavior. It’s understood that pain, nausea, discomfort, embarrassment, drunkenness will occur.

This is not hazing. They’re not in college. They’re not in high school trying to join an organization. There’s no well understood ritual of discomfort that will result in the reward of social acceptance/membership in an established organization.

It’s just torture for the sake of torture. It’s not hazing.

Fucking retards

Here's one of the perps, Edward Hobby (I think that's the name they said)

Screen grabbed from R20s vid link.

Edward ROOKER HOBBY.

Let me tell you about the ROOKER family and the HOBBY family.

None of it is good.

He's (the victim) is actually really cute. I like my guys kind of thick-set. I'll take him in and be his 56-year-old friend.

In the perp photo at r68 he has dead black eyes. He’s as cuddly as Susan Atkins. Hope he gets a long long sentence in prison.

Well the latest news report claims it happened at a "frat party" and this frat is related to a private high school. And the party was off campus. So one presumes at one of the kid's family home. Because high school boys do not live together in fraternity houses, one assumes. The kids and perps are minors. Trent is not.

Still not a hazing because Trent was not rushing this "fraternity" but now I see where the police got this term.

Also who knew private high schools have fraternities?

Yes, high school Greeks are a thing in some wealthy areas, particularly in the South. They often serve as feeders for elite college fraternities and sororities. Until around 2005, for example, Mountain Brook (AL) High School (Natalee Holloway's high school) had a Greek system founded in the 1920s. Those kids usually went on to pledge the top chapters at schools like UA, Ole Miss, and UGA. The Mountain Brook chapters also took kids from Altamont, a nearby private school in Birmingham.

I wish the newscaster had not described the perps as "young boys".

Young boys are not 17 and 18 years old.

He should have called them "young men".

As someone mentioned up the thread, this wasn't "hazing" and they're not "young boys".

One of the perps is named Leland Davis, and his father is a cop.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

The other kids who were just standing around watching it happen, should be punished too.

The guys that tortured the fat kid are my heroes.

He smells cookies. Was he smiling for the Gods? Piece of shit scumbags who did this. I hope they get hit by a tractor trailer. I just hope he wasn’t pledging to fit in. Like I said somebody smell cookies. Get well soon.

Some of the alleged perps' names are so Southern Gothic. Such a coincidence that the same news outfit responsible for a lot of the Murdaugh reporting, FITS news, is also on top of this.

I guess they just don't force oral sodomy and call it a night, anymore. Ah, the good 'ole days.

Chris Pratt will play Trent in the eventual Lifetime Movie.

R66 sorry you went through that.

The tortured kid look like he had fetal alcohol syndrome.

^But OP's claim has been validated!

Yes my apologies for giving you pushback about jock. I guess he did play football.

Trent looks a little special. That’s sad.

His family's story reminds me of some of the stories of Manson girls. An awful lot of them came from homes where the mother died and the father remarried within months. So here were these girls undergoing grief at losing their mothers when their fathers brought a new woman into the house who took over, made all new rules and now makes the father the center of family life. A lot of young mothers died from breast cancer in 1960s. Hard to imagine your safe, secure life just burning up and blowing away. Then psychopaths take advantage of them.

The family denies that Trent is on the spectrum. Is he mentally slow? Developmentally disabled or maybe a had a pre-existing psychiatric disorder? I really can’t see a typical 19 year old young man going back for this.

It seems as if Trent’s father just wants to be done with his son and Trent isn’t ready to be on his own. What an asshole.

[quote] FBI has joined the investigation

And a frathouse hazing is a federal crime how ?

It wasn't a hazing per se, though. And the kid and his dad seem....not smart to continue to go back. If the kid is a little special, okay, but why the fuck would the dad keep driving him over there? Maybe the dad wanted something to happen to him.

He’s ok. I will forever side eye that horrible father for driving him back there when he knew he had been previously assaulted. There was a Reddit post that said the dad locked up food from him, but the sister denied it. If there is a GFM, dad is the last person to handle the money.

I’m glad to hear this kid is doing better and is able to live in a safer, more supportive environment than the one his father provided. I hope he gets justice - but considering that rich kids will well-connected parents were the perpetrators, probably not.

*is hopefully able to live

Hopefully a kind family will invite this poor kid to live with them and help him with getting on his feet. The hundreds of people who showed up at the rally to support him was so encouraging and quite beautiful, frankly.

He needs a lot of help, and things look good that he will finally receive it.

Y'all forgot me!!! The Belle of SW Georgia!

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