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Police say Salisbury University students set up fake profile to lure man to apartment, beat him and hold him prisoner. Officials in Maryland have charged 12 students with offenses including hate crimes for allegedly luring a gay man to an apartment off campus, holding him prisoner and breaking his rib while beating him.

A statement from the Salisbury police department said one of the accused, all students at Salisbury University who have since been suspended, set up a fake account on a dating app to entice the victim with a promise of sex with a year-old.

Maryland students charged with hate crimes over alleged beating of gay man

They slapped, punched, kicked and spat on him while calling him derogatory names and preventing him from leaving, police said in documents also charging them with assault and false imprisonment. The victim did not come forward, and was contacted by police after they traced his license plate from footage showing his car driving away from the apartment.

The age of consent in Maryland is 16, while the age of the victim was not given. University officials said the 12 had been suspended, and that the school was cooperating with the law enforcement investigation. Rakow, the attorney, accused the university of jumping to conclusions by suspending the students before speaking with them.

The episode is among a rising number of hate-related crimes and incidents fueled at least in part, experts say, by a divided and toxic political environment. In Michigan, officials said on Monday that a group of Nazi protesters waved swastika flags outside an American Legion post where a community theater group was performing The Diary of Anne Frank, about a Dutch schoolgirl forced into hiding with her Jewish family in German-occupied Amsterdam during the second world war.

She was captured and died in a concentration camp inaged Livingston county deputies were called to a disturbance at the venue in Howell at about 7. The Fowlerville Community Theatre group said in a statement posted to Facebook that maryland gay performers were upset by what happened outside.

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