The accused players, two 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old, allegedly sodomized three younger boys with a broomstick, pine cones and golf balls. Carol and Pat's sons were two of the alleged victims.

Carol says the first real indication she had that something might be wrong came when the boys arrived on the bus back at Mepham High School from camp. "When I picked them up I said, 'Wow, they must have you worked you guys hard,'" Carol recalls. "The whole atmosphere of the boys getting off those buses was silence. I mean, 60 children — silence. They walked off heads down."

‘I Went Ballistic’

Pat found out that night that it wasn't fatigue that led to the boys' silence on the bus. She was sitting down to watch TV with her husband and son when she asked him about camp. He said the practices were tough, and said he didn't sleep at night.

When she asked him why he didn't sleep he hesitated. She then asked her son if he was hazed at camp.

He said yes, but she wasn't prepared for what he said next.

"He couldn't say the words. … he said, 'Broomstick,' And I'm like, 'What about a broomstick?' And he's looking at my husband, he's looking back at me. … And I'm, like, looking at my husband, I said, 'Is this a guy thing? I don't understand what he's saying.' "

Pat says, her son gradually told her that boys at the camp had taken a broomstick covered with mineral ice and sodomized him.

"I went ballistic. Totally ballistic.I said, 'They could have killed you.They could have perforated your bowel.You could have died.' " Pat says she knew hazing went on, but she never thought it was anything as violent as what her son described. "This is not hazing," she said, "this was definitely premeditated. These boys brought the broom to camp from their home."

Carol says the alleged attackers also brought a knife to camp as well. "You don't bring a broom and knife to football camp without some intention for it," Pat said, "so they had this planned ahead of time."

Wayne County, Pa., District Attorney Mark Zimmer would not confirm whether the alleged attackers brought a broom or knife with them to camp.

The attorneys representing the accused players have not responded to ABCNEWS calls for response to this report.

Carol's son was more reluctant to tell her about the assault. Several days went by before he told her something was wrong. "My son said, 'You know, there's something wrong, I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding," Carol said.

He told her wanted to go to the doctor — that he thinks he should get a rectal exam. She knew then something was seriously wrong.

Her son, like Pat's, was uncomfortable describing what had happened, but told the doctor that boys at camp had sodomized him with a broomstick.

According to Pat and Carol, the incidents happened repeatedly. "First it would be [Carol's] son, then my son," Pat said. The assaulters, she said, would go back and forth between the boys using broomsticks, pinecones and golf balls, to sodomize them.

Pat and Carol's sons were 13 at the time of the assaults, and much smaller than the varsity players who allegedly attacked them over several days. "I can't imagine going through that at night, and knowing that when you wake up the next morning or afternoon that you're going to get it again, and the next night you're going to get it again," Pat said.

Did Camp Supervisors Turn a Blind Eye?

Carol says her son is angry at the team coach. Her son says he knew something was happening at camp, but did nothing to intervene.

Mepham High coach Kevin McElroy says he didn't know anything about the incident until four or five days after the kids returned from the Pennsylvania camp.

Carol doesn't believe him. Carol says she believes McElroy knew some sort of hazing was going on at the camp, perhaps not sodomy, but, she says, "that's what happens when you allow a little bit of hazing to go on. It escalates and this is what it escalates to, a crime. And that is his fault. It was his responsibility to protect my child."

McElroy has since lost his coaching job at Mepham High.

After Carol learned what happened, she made an anonymous call to the high school to report the incident. A few days later she and her son met with the Mepham High principal and told him what happened. She says she expected the school to take action, and report it to the police.

But Carol says the principal told her it was her responsibility to call the police. The school superintendent confirmed to ABCNEWS that it is not school policy to notify authorities about incidents that happen off campus.

Carol called Pennsylvania State Police to report the crime, and followed up with another call to the high school. She wanted to know if the older boys accused of the assaults had been suspended.

They hadn't. "I just couldn't believe it," Carol said."I mean, kids get suspended for, for silly things and, it was like, these boys committed a crime."

Carol and Pat say their sons were afraid to go to school and see the older boys, especially since they had spoken up about what had happened at camp. Their sons had to face their attackers at school for three weeks, until the older boys were finally suspended.

Judge to Decide Whether Players Should Be Tried as Adults

Pat and Carol are now bracing for what will happen in a Pennsylvania courthouse on Wednesday, when a judge will decide whether the three varsity players who have been accused of the sexual assaults should be tried as adults or juveniles. And their sons will take the stand and tell the court what happened to them.

"I don't want my child to go on that stand," Carol said, "but I feel it's the right thing that has to be done so that justice may be served. So that this won't happen to someone else."

Both Pat and Carol are hoping that the judge will decide to have the older boys tried as adults. "We want adult certification. That way, they can have punishment. Otherwise, [in] juvenile there is no punishment. It's probation," Pat said. If tried as adults, the boys could face 20 years in prison.

District Attorney Zimmer has charged the boys with a litany of offenses, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, kidnapping, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment.

Carol and Pat say they're not seeking 20 years for the accused attackers. They just want their boys to get through high school without the fear of having to face their attackers again.

"We feel our boys deserve at least to finish high school, move on to college, in a safe, environment, without these perpetrators coming back," Carol said.

They both hope the Pennsylvania judge will have the boys tried as a adults as a way of sending a message that teens cannot get away with this level of violence.

Incredibly, both Pat and Carol's sons still love football. Although Mepham's football season was canceled this year, both boys want to resume playing when it's reinstated. Carol and Pat hope that they'll be able to do so, without the fear of facing the varsity players who they say assaulted them.

While they love the community they've been a part of, they say they'll move if the accused attackers are allowed to return to school.

"We used to love living here and we're proud of our schools and our community and it's a disgrace right now," said Pat, "It's horrible to be there."