A Brooklyn excessive schooler accused of sexually hazing a JV soccer teammate final 12 months stated he’s now being mercilessly bullied by his classmates — and maintains the incident by no means occurred.
“The entire staff is saying it’s a lie,” 15-year-old James Madison Excessive Faculty pupil Neijee Hunter advised The Submit. “Now they’re calling me P-Diddy. They referred to as me homosexual, they usually’re saying this due to one thing I didn’t do. They’re leaving child oil in my locker.”
Hunter and two different gamers on the Midwood college’s junior varsity staff have been accused of holding down a teammate in October, pulling off his garments and touching his “non-public space,” police and sources stated.
The alleged sufferer’s mom blew the whistle on the incident, which abruptly ended the staff’s season, received one of many coaches fired — and ended with the accused hazers ostracized from their friends, Hunter and his household stated.
The teenager and his dad and mom stated the entire thing was overblown, and was simply typical horsing round by the staff that didn’t contain any sexual contact or assault.
“When the college referred to as us and advised us we would have liked to get down there, I received there quick and the police have been already there,” his father, Early Hunter, advised The Submit. “We went to courtroom 3 times. They declined to prosecute in household courtroom. The decide stated he didn’t know why this was in courtroom.
“The varsity made such an enormous factor about it earlier than investigating,” he stated. “They referred to as the police instantly. They charged them and took all three of them out in handcuffs like they have been actual criminals.”
The elder Hunter even launched a video of the incident final 12 months, exhibiting it was simply rough-housing.
Different James Madison dad and mom additionally chimed in after the incident, calling the arrests extreme and telling The Submit that disciplining the boys would have been punishment sufficient.
The Hunters stated the alleged sufferer of the incident was taken out of the college by his mom — and the reputed bullies have been returned to class after the costs have been tossed in courtroom.
However it’s been a nightmare for Neijee, who stated he’s now the goal of abuse on the college — despite the fact that the alleged sufferer, a linebacker on the staff, was somebody he thought of a buddy.
“He’s the one one saying that occurred,” he stated of his accuser. “The coach was proper there.
“It was after observe. We have been getting psyched for the sport Friday. Have been taking part in round. After observe, all common horseplay within the locker room, tackling one another. We tackled him and he went house and advised a lie. He was laughing, able to play in opposition to the largest staff within the South Shore Excessive Faculty league.”
His classmates’ taunts of “P-Diddy” consult with disgraced rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s on trial in Manhattan and is accused of an extended operating sample of sexual abuse and assault.
The teenager who made the intercourse hazing claims at James Madison couldn’t be reached for remark, nor may the coach who was fired over the incident.
A spokesperson for James Madison Excessive Faculty stated the college was unaware of the harassment.
“Bullying and harassment have completely no place in our colleges,” they stated in a press release. “Previous to this inquiry, the college had acquired no escalation or report of bullying. Upon receipt of those allegations, the college launched a full investigation and we’re offering assist to this pupil, as per college insurance policies.”
However Neijee’s mother stated the injury is completed.
“This might have ruined somebody’s entire life over a lie,” Nathifa Bembrey advised The Submit. “It was very hectic. It was nerve-wracking. And that coach received fired, they usually stated he allowed this to occur. He’ll by no means coach once more, throughout a lie.
“The youngsters in school have been calling them the Madison 3,” she stated. “They have been so impolite and imply. No apologies. They completely may’ve dealt with this higher.”
James Madison excessive, based in 1925, has had a number of excessive profile alums, together with US Sen. Chuck Schumer and the late Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
