Plea agreements reached in final two Walker Middle school locker room rape cases

TAMPA - With a trial scheduled for next week, charges for two teenagers accused of sexual battery have been dropped after they reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Both teens, 15-year-old Raymond Price-Murray and 16-year-old Diemante Roberts have reached plea agreements with the state, and will avoid a trial.

Each originally faced four first degree felony charges of sexual battery.  In the plea deal, they will each be convicted of one charge of felony battery, and will serve five years' probation.

The agreement also specifies they must serve 100 hours community service, with at least half of that time spent speaking to students and peers about why hazing and bullying are bad.

In addition, the teens cannot come in contact with the victim or the other co-defendants.

State prosecutor Kimberly Hindman told Judge Emmett Battles Wednesday's resolution is something the victim wanted for himself and the four other young men involved.

Along with Price-Murray and Roberts, Randall Moye and Lee Myers were all accused of assaulting the victim in a Walker Middle School locker room.

Prosecutors said the victim had been picked on continually from mid-March through at least the end of April of 2009 and was sexually assaulted at least four times on four occasions. It's alleged that in one incident, two of the teens held down the 13-year-old boy while the other two assaulted him with a hockey stick and a broom handle.

All of the defendants in the case were charged as adults with four counts of sexual battery. Two charges against Lee Louis Myers were dropped after documents proved he was not at flag-football practice during the days of those charges. Moye reached a plea deal with prosecutors earlier this year.