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New Jersey high school football players put on probation for hazing

(Reuters) - Six of the seven New Jersey teenagers charged with sexual assault in a high school football hazing scandal last year have been sentenced to probation and will not have their names put on a sex offender register, the New York Times reported on Monday.

The seven Sayreville War Memorial High School players, aged between 15 and 17, were arrested in October and charged with the sexual abuse of four freshmen on the team, prosecutors in Middlesex County, New Jersey, said.

The victims were held against their will while other team members touched them, the prosecutors said.