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Seventh-grade boys at Sunnyvale Middle School feared going to first-period PE class. They knew what might await them: Vicious sexual attacks by older eighth-grade students.

Throughout much of last school year, a pack of eighth-graders repeatedly threatened to sexually attack the younger students before and after class.

"They would say, 'I'm going to get you on Monday,' " recalled a 13-year-old seventh-grader, who told The Dallas Morning News that he witnessed the attacks almost daily. " 'We are going to rape you.' "

The Dallas County Sheriff's Department has concluded its investigation and has recommended that the Dallas County district attorney's office prosecute five eighth-grade boys for aggravated sexual assault and/or indecency, according to Kim Leach, a Sheriff's Department spokeswoman.

Ms. Leach declined to answer questions about the exact nature of the sexual attacks.

Whatever the facts, Sunnyvale ISD already has reacted to the case. Starting this fall, students will be required to take a "values-based" class to help them make good choices. And the athletic locker room will be reconfigured so coaches will always be able to see across the room at all angles.

The seventh-grade boy who said he witnessed the attacks agreed to tell his story to The News but didn't want his name used because he fears retaliation.

He said the eighth-grade assailants usually backed up their threats with attacks in the athletic locker room. Coaches were out of sight. And the perpetrators' friends would build a human wall around the attacks - sometimes up to 16 people in length - to prevent anyone from watching or intervening.

Sunnyvale ISD Superintendent Doug Williams verified the seventh-grader's account of the events. The boy also said he spoke with sheriff's investigators twice to tell his story.

More and more violent

The seventh-grade boy said the attacks became more vicious as the year progressed.

At the beginning of the football season - around early September - older students jokingly humped each other. The older boys wore gym shorts and got into piles of eight to 10 students on a locker room bench, he said.

They moaned and laughed.

"I was like, 'What are they doing?' " the seventh-grader said. "I just thought they were sick or something."

But as the older boys noticed the younger students standing in bewilderment and laughing, they started to target the younger seventh-graders. The attacks began a few weeks before winter break in December, the 13-year-old recalled.

"At first, they were just grabbing people and holding them down, but it got more intense," the boy said.

The attacks seemed well organized and followed the same pattern, he said.

The perpetrators waited for the younger students to be facing their lockers. The older boys would run up behind their victims, tackle them to the ground and pin their arms and legs to the floor, the 13-year-old said.

Other students hid in their lockers.

"They'd say, 'Look what I got,' " the boy recalled the attackers saying.

As the victims usually kicked and screamed, the attackers tried to strip off their gym shorts.

The usual leader of the attacks, a muscular eighth-grader, would slide his fist in a foot-long, hard plastic cone and try to sodomize some of the younger boys, the seventh-grader said. All of the victims of attacks that he witnessed were still wearing their gym shorts, he said.

The attackers moaned as they pinned the younger boys, he said.

"They got the kids that they knew would never say anything," the boy said.