This is going too far...

This doesn't sound like rape to me.

Statutory rape charges were filed yesterday against three former Milton Academy ice hockey players who allegedly requested and received oral sex from a 15-year-old sophomore girl in a boys' locker room.

Two juvenile players already are charged in the alleged incident, which prosecutors said occurred in January on the campus of the prestigious preparatory school. It is illegal under state law to have sex with anyone under 16 years old.

The players charged yesterday -- 17-year-old Alex Casiano from Pembroke Pines, Fla., 17-year-old Jay Driscoll from Milton, and 18-year-old Pasko Skarica from Bethpage, N.Y. -- are scheduled to be arraigned this morning in Quincy District Court. If convicted, at the minimum they would have to register as sex offenders; at the maximum, they would be sentenced to life in prison, according to Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating's office, which filed the charges.

And, what happened?

Milton Academy officials expelled all five hockey players and notified police in February about the alleged locker room incident Jan. 24. The school later said that two other oral sex sessions involving some of the same students had occurred on the same weekend. On Jan. 22, two of the hockey players and a 15-year-old male student received oral sex from the girl in a dorm room, and on Jan. 23, the same group engaged in the same activity in a boys locker room, school officials contend.

The district attorney filed charges in only the third alleged incident, during which the girl is said to have performed oral sex on the two hockey players and three of their teammates between dining and study halls.

The alleged dorm room incident was more casual and involved fewer people, according to one person who has spoken with the students involved and another briefed on the investigation. Some of the students involved said they were playing a sex game, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Does this sound like rape? Not to me.