Posted on 11/26/2012 4:53:10 AM PST by servo1969
A suit filed Monday against the Maine Township High School District claims three Maine West freshman students were sexually assaulted during a soccer team hazing ritual at the school.
The suit goes into details of the hazing that have not been released by either the Des Plaines Police Department or the school district, which have both conducted investigations. Since the Sept. 27 incident, police have charged six students as juveniles while a total of ten students have been disciplined, according to the district. Some of the ten students were barred from playing on the soccer team and one student told ABC News he was suspended.
During the investigation, two soccer coaches have been reassigned with pay, and three other coaches who are not teachers were removed from their coaching responsibilities, according to the district.
“Inappropriate behavior” was the only official reason cited so far for the actions.
According to attorney Antonio Romanucci, who filed the suit on behalf of a 14-year-old boy, the assault occurred as part of an initiation after the victims were promoted from the freshmen team to the varsity team.
The suit alleges that coaches ordered a “campus run,” a term which was a code indicating the hazing should commence.
At that signal, older team members grabbed Romanucci’s client, tore off his pants and underwear, held him down on the school’s soccer field and sodomized him with their fingers and other foreign objects, the suit alleges.
While this went on, the coaches “stood idly by” according to complaint.
Two other boys who are not part of the legal action got the same treatment, the suit claimed.
“That behavior in today’s society is disgusting,” Romanucci said at a press conference Monday. “It is never to be condoned, it should never have happened.”
The boy’s mother also spoke out, saying she was angry at the school. “I feel like the coaches should have kept him safe on the soccer field, and they didn’t do that.”
Romanucci said the school has interviewed over 100 people in its investigation and that the number of victims could grow. “I do have information that at least takes this back another three to four years,” he said. “This is a lot deeper than we probably know about right now.”
The school district said it does not comment on pending litigation, but issued a statement summarizing the investigative and disciplinary steps it has taken so far. The statement also noted the district itself started the investigation after someone made a complaint. “We take the misconduct involving the soccer team very seriously,” the district said.
The suit asks for monetary damages and for the school to make changes to keep similar incidents from occurring.
Despite the loss of team members, the Maine West soccer team went on to finish its best season in history before losing a regional final Oct. 20.
----- Coaches - "So, freshman 14-year-old boy. You wanna move up to varsity soccer? Well, we have a tradition in this high school. Last year's varsity team get's to hold you down and stick their fingers up your behind! You want to play varsity soccer, right? Well that's how we do things here! Take it like a man! For high school soccer! That's how winners do things! -----
Nope. I can't figure it out. None of it makes any sense.
Unless you chalk it up to some kind of f*ggotry on the coaching staff's part.
Which I do.
The coaches should be shot or hung.
The first time I heard of “the shocker” was on Jim Rome’s radio show, in connection with a boys’ high school sports team initiation (rugby or wrestling, I can’t remember for sure at this point). It was quite a while later before I learned about the female equivalent.
The first time I heard of “the shocker” was on Jim Rome’s radio show, in connection with a boys’ high school sports team initiation (rugby or wrestling, I can’t remember for sure at this point). It was quite a while later before I learned about the female equivalent.
“At that signal, older team members grabbed Romanucci’s client, tore off his pants and underwear, held him down on the school’s soccer field and sodomized him with their fingers and other foreign objects, the suit alleges.”
As someone who played sports throughout my childhood, I do not believe this at all. Swirlies? Sure. Bare behind paddle beatings? Maybe. An entire team engaging in homosexual rape? I can pretty much assure that didn’t happen.
That's what he said.
Those coaches should be in prison and some of the students too!!
Not only that, I thought soccer players aren’t supposed to use their hands???
publik skoolz have changed a lot
And soccer's not a faggotty sport?
Sounds like a Chicago “thing”
” “This is a lot deeper than we probably know about right now.” “
As someone who played sports throughout my childhood, I do not believe this at all. Swirlies? Sure. Bare behind paddle beatings? Maybe. An entire team engaging in homosexual rape? I can pretty much assure that didn’t happen.
I can assure you that you don’t know whats going on in every school. Kids are being taught this.
They certainly have. Maine West is where I graduated from. I return from time to time for various events. The soccer team is now probably 98% Hispanic. When I attended the school many years ago, there were very few Hispanics. Not saying for sure this had something to do with it, but I would reckon that the offenders where Hispanic and the victim was not.
If these roles were reversed, say, it was the white volleyball team, sodomizing a minority, there would be 24/7 coverage.
Yeah right. I call BS on the sodomy. One thing that is going on in every school and is universal is lying.
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