AFRICANGLOBE -The white ringleader of a horrific sexual assault of a mentally disabled Black teen will avoid jail time and escape classification as a sex offender after pleading guilty to a lesser charge. John R.K. Howard plead guilty to one felony count of injury to a child after leading two football teammates to help him carry out a a violent sexual attack on a Black teammate with mental disabilities. Howard and Tanner Ward, along with a third student, pretended to offer the victim a hug, then held him down and sodomized him with a coat hanger. A third attacker then kicked the coat hanger several times, forcing it farther into the victim’s body and causing rectal injuries.