Commonwealth v. Walker

While traveling in the Boston area in April, 2001, on a field trip, and accompanied by five chaperones, the defendants, all then students at the Philipsburg-Osceola High School in Pennsylvania, engaged in a variety of activities with sexual overtones, primarily directed against one of their fellow students. As the specific facts do not bear directly on the issues raised in this appeal, we need not recite the sordid details of the defendants’ actions, except to note that they were alleged to have occurred periodically over the two-day trip and allegedly involved attempted forced oral sex and…