Although these allegations are certainly reprehensible, the media narrative and subsequent criminal charges have been exaggerated and overblown due to a large outburst on social media and the internet from conservative, right wing and "alt right" sections of Twitter, Reddit, and other platforms.
This was not a kidnapping and torture, this was a simple hazing. 47% of university students in the United States experience Hazing. College athletes, for example, are regularly subjected to light beatings, brandings, and forced head shaving.
The exaggerated outcry was a result of the entire right wing attempting to justify their false narrative of "reverse-racism", a fake term which is used to claim that white Americans are subjected to institutional racism.
These young adults deserve justice.