12 students at Maryland university charged with hate crime

A dozen students from Salisbury University, aged 18 to 21, were charged with a hate crime on Thursday after allegedly luring a man to an off-campus apartment using social media before assaulting him, according to local police in Maryland. 

A local outlet WJZ News found charging documents that said one of the college-aged men created a fake Grindr profile posing as a 16-year-old, setting up a time with the victim for “sexual intercourse.” 

The age of consent in Maryland is 16.