Tamaqua Area School District sued over alleged sexual assaults …
Teen charged with assault at Tamaqua Area High School ‘football house’
According to the lawsuit, after practice on November 4, the victims were ambushed by upperclassmen on the team, who held them down, repeatedly punched them in the face, and tried to forcibly penetrate them with a banana.
After the first victim told his father, the assault was immediately reported to school officials and Tamaqua police. The lawsuit claims in the days following the initial report, members of the administration excluded victims from attending or providing testimony at the disciplinary hearings.
Students accused of assaulting victim 1 remained in the same classes as the victim. Both victims and their fathers were barred from attending aspecial school board meetingabout the incident by the superintendent, who then accused one of the victims of lying. At the time, school officials publicly denied the sexual assault.
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