Legal cases have been submitted for 3 years after Wall High School Football Hazing Scandal

More than three years after a hazing scandal has demolished the football season of the Wall High School, which means that youth attacks against different players and cost pools and school officials cost their job, separate lawsuits have been made up for two victims of the misuse of the dressing room.

The suits, submitted on 28 February and 6 March in the Superior Court in Monmouth County, mention the Wall Board of Education as a defendant and claimed that the board, the policy and the employees could not protect victims against attacks by teammates who were part of a pattern of abuse.

The suits claim that the failures of the boards were contrary to the New Jersey law against discriminationThat guarantees the possibility of obtaining work, and to obtain all accommodations, benefits, facilities and privileges from every place of public accommodation in this case, participation in the Wall High School Crimson Knights Varsity Football Program.

Both suits are not looking -specificed and punitive compensatory damage. Both quote video -recordings of the incidents and Management of behavior by the teammates of the victims who are consistent with attacks that have previously been viewed and reported by NJ Advance Media.

In the registered incidents, victims were held by different teammates at the same time while others stood out with a broom handle and their bare hands.

The Pak van March claims that the claimant was 16 and a member of the Varsity team when he was attacked in the dressing room of high school just before the training on October 27, 2021.

Plaintiff was the victim of predatory and mean deeds of sexual harassment, discrimination, bullying and abuse and battery by various of his teammates, the lawsuit states, submitted by lawyer Austin Tobin van van van Mcomber Mcomber and Luber In red couch.

While the defendants supervise, the plaintiff was violently held by different members of the WHSS Varsity Football team, while other teammates held the plaintiff up through both arms and legs while trying to put a broom in his anus, the suit adds.

Despite the efforts of the claimants to release themselves from the grip of his teammates and his screaming for help, none of the suspect WBOE intervened to protect the claimant against Egregious and illegal acts of intimidation and discrimination.

Board of Education President James Malif told NJ Advance Media that heard board members of the suits during their last meeting on March 18.

I have no comment to make there, said Malif, who came to the board in January 2022 after the attacks took place. Our lawyers are investigating it, and it is certainly something we are dealing with and tackling.

Malif referred to any additional questions about Boards' lawyer, Athina Cornell Van Cornell, Merlino and Osborne in Mountainside, who did not respond to requests for comments.

The scented walls fluctuated very competitive football program in the autumn from 2021 to the beginning of 2022. The Wall and New Jersey Scholastic Football communities were amazed by the cancellation of the teams of the Teamsgiving Day, which ended the season after the match was canceled, with greater displacements and recruitment.

Seven players were initially charged in juvenile court by the Monmouth County Office Office with false prison sentence and criminal sexual contact, although at least five of them argue guilty for lesser charges under a deal that finally wiped their data.

The MCOMber company warned the district for its intention to sue in 2022 and to serve a notification of an unlawful act that required a public entity at least six months before the actual complaint, although the Span turned out to be three years.

The company has submitted two additional notifications with regard to the hazing scandal, although Tobin refused to comment on the timing of the claim, when or or others would be submitted or something else.

The lawsuit claims that the attack took place against another victim on or around October 2021, also in the dressing room for the training.

Plaintiff was held by several teammates who are involved in serious and inappropriate behavior, including the grasp of the genitals of the claimants and try to do the plaintiff, the case states, submitted by lawyer Andrew Salmon or Lenox law firm In Lawrenceville.

The suit adds that the aforementioned attack was recorded on video and was then distributed under the student body, in the school district, and in the wider community of Monmouth County, which further subject the plaintiff to humiliation, emotional need and reputation damage.

The suit of February mentions the Wall Board of Education and 10 fictitiously mentioned individuals whose identities are currently unknown as defendants.

Salmon did not respond to a request for comment.

In contrast to the lawsuit in February, the complaint of March mentions various individual school officials and coaches as defendants, including the current and then super -intendent, Tracy Handerhan; The secondary schools then Principal, Rosaleen Sirchio, who no longer holds that position; The districts of athletic director at the time, Thomas Ridoux, no longer in the work.

Handerhan did not respond to requests for comments. Sirchio and Ridoux could not be reached.

At the time, De Marsuit also mentions the head coach of the teams, Anthony Grandinetti, and an assistant coach, Michael Cerminaro, and claims that they were in the dressing room when the victim was attacked.

Although defendant Grandinetti, the head coach of WHSS Varsity Football Team, and defended Cerminaro, an assistant coach and quarterbacks coach of WHSS Varsity Football team, were also present in the dressing room of WHSS Boys, together with other Faculty of Studies, the SUCTES.

Grandinetti did not respond to a request for comments and Cerminaro could not be achieved.

On Monday, Grandinetti was mentioned on the College of New Jersey football programs Home page as special teams and defense line coach. A TCNJ spokesperson, Luke Sacks, said that Grandinetti no longer worked there.

Grandinetti was also mentioned on Monday as an assistant coach on the website of the Montclair State University Football Program, although a spokesperson for the athletic department of the schools, Andrew Mees, said that Grandinetti did not work there at the moment either.

A close observer and frequent critic of the district, Betsy Cross, said that the suits should lead to changes in the Wall Schools Administration, the superintendent and administrative lawyer select as a replacement.

I hope that these extra lawsuits will force the Wall Board of Education to immediately tackle critical issues, instead of being suppressed for years and being drawn by long -term expensive legal proceedings, Cross said Monday.

Unless important changes are made to the Wall Boe Boe administration, its members and its legal representation, she added, the safety of children will remain in danger, the quality of education will continue to deteriorate and the financial burden caused by the administrative negligence of the Wall Boe will only increase.