It was alleged that on August 14, 2010, a male teenage
volunteer was restrained, sexually assaulted, and, according to later-materializing allegation, sodomized, during a “rite of
passage” initiation hazing ritual at the Empire Hose Company No. 1 firehouse in
Piermont, New York. The victim was 16 years old at the time, apparently an in-process junior firefighter. He was alleged to have been tied to a chair and forced to have sexual contact
with older teens and an adult man. The victim’s father filed a federal lawsuit
against the Village of Piermont and three male firefighters in May 2011. Criminal
charges were apparently also brought against the three male firefighters. The criminal charges were later dismissed against
two. At least one of the dismissals may have been based on the technicality of prosecutorial failure to proceed to a speedy trial. It is further indicated in the civil litigation public record that the third firefighter “took a plea” (meaning, pled guilty) to a violation, a non-criminal disposition, and presumably thereby saw his criminal charge also dismissed short of any trial.
It is now revealed that there
were approximately TWENTY-FIVE (25) individuals in attendance at the Piermont Fire Department firehouse at the function
wherein the minor was sodomized on August 14, 2010, some of them still listed as current Piermont FD members to this day.
