Teen Girls Hazed on N.J. High School 'Slut List'

Incoming high school freshmen subjected to "degrading" insults in school ritual.

ByABC News via logo
September 23, 2009, 8:23 AM

Sept. 23, 2009 — -- Milburn High School in New Jersey is known for making Newsweek's list of the top 200 schools in the nation.

But the high school is also fast becoming known for another list, the "slut list."

"Every year these senior girls -- there is usually that one clique, I don't know what you'd call it, a group of girls who create a so-called slut list of incoming freshman girls," said recent Milburn graduate Conner Leslie. "It basically consists of a list of girls and little blurbs of something degrading."

For about 10 to 15 years now, popular senior girls have developed the list and passed it around, according to Leslie and other former classmates.

This year it was created at an alcohol-fueled party and it was worse than ever, one current senior told "Good Morning America."

A reporter for the Millburn-Short Hills Patch Web site told "GMA" she obtained this year's slut list and on it were the names of 21 freshmen out of a class of more than 300. Each entry had vulgar descriptions of the 13- or 14-year-old girls.

"I'm so desperate and hairy that I'll give you [drugs] for free if you get with me," one entry read.

"Keeping up with the family tradition, [blank] me ... and knock me up," read another.

The list is just part of what happens on the first day of school, students say. Seniors also blow loud whistles at freshmen, shove them into lockers and, in years past, slapped stickers on their backs.

Some of the stickers labeled the girls "sluts" or "whores," Leslie said.

The school's superintendent, Richard Brodow, sent an e-mail to students last week saying "any so called 'ritual' which in any way threatens, degrades or makes any youngster feel intimidated or less than whole is a violation of school policy and just plain wrong."