Catholic teenager hung on cross at work left 'ashamed'

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-yo ... e-36531455

Catholic teenager hung on cross at work left 'ashamed'

A Catholic teenager felt "ashamed" and "embarrassed" after he was tied to a wooden cross by workmates in a mock crucifixion, a court has heard.
The teenager, who cannot be named, told York Crown Court he was left feeling distraught after a sustained campaign of bullying by his colleagues.
Andrew Addison, 30, Joseph Rose, 21, Christopher Jackson, 22, and Alex Puchir, 37, are accused of religiously aggravated assault by beating.
All four deny the charges against them.
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The prosecution alleged the victim, who is now 19, also had religious and phallic symbols drawn on his body with permanent marker, was tied to a chair, had deodorant sprayed towards him and ignited and was violently hoisted off the ground by his underpants.
The court heard the incidents happened when he was serving an apprenticeship at the Direct Interior Solutions - a shop-fitting company in Selby, North Yorkshire.
'Ashamed and distraught'
Giving evidence by video link, the victim, who was aged 17 and 18 and a student at Selby College at the time of the alleged incidents, said: " ashamed and distraught. I couldn't believe it. It hadn't happened to anyone else."
He told the court that he was working on a bank refit in Hull, East Yorkshire, in January 2015, when company manager Mr Addison and Mr Jackson grabbed his arms and legs.
He said Mr Puchir was told to make a cross, which he fashioned from two pieces of timber.
"I was then lifted up and put on to the cross and secured on to it," the jury was told.
"I was then put up on to the wall."
The victim told the jury he was suspended about three feet above the floor as people working on the site filmed the incident.
He said: "At the time, I didn't really know what to feel. I just felt ashamed that everyone else saw what was happening to me and it wasn't happening to anyone else. I just felt really embarrassed.
"Afterwards, I started thinking maybe they were just trying to take the mickey out of my religion. I didn't really understand why there was a cross made."

(continued, religious education today? they needed to bring out the nails...to help him understand...)

[tattuchu]

"...and was violently hoisted off the ground by his underpants."

[NineBerry]

If true, this is unacceptable and must be punished severely.

[Svartalf]

What would be thre charges? assault and battery in conspiration?

[cronus]

What would be thre charges? assault and battery in conspiration?

Crucifixion without a licence.

[Svartalf]

well, a real crucifixion would be attempted murder

[cronus]

well, a real crucifixion would be attempted murder

After three days things would be OK again....sort of.

[Svartalf]

the seven trumpets would sound and the seven seals be broken and it would be the start of the zombiepocalypse

[tattuchu]

They got rather cross with him, is all.

[JimC]

We all have our own crosses to bear...

[Svartalf]

they say it was he who looked cross eyed at them

[JimC]

Did they have some bint there to play Mary Magdalene?

[piscator]

You New Atheists ought to be ashamed of yourselves for the way you're behaving in what used to be Scotland!

[pErvinalia]

"Catholic" isn't a monolithic entity. Which sect did he belong to? Racist reporting.

[Svartalf]

Sorry but the Catholic Church is pretty much the best xtianity can produce in the way of monolithic entities.
and if you were sarcastic, you can do better than that.