A former St. Joseph’s College baseball teammate has filed a lawsuit alleging he was stripped bare and assaulted in a brutal hazing this previous March.
Filed Monday within the State Supreme Court docket in Suffolk County, the lawsuit alleged “a sample of hazing, bullying, bodily assault, humiliation, retaliation, negligent supervision, and institutional misconduct” occurred in the course of the Plaintiff’s participation on the varsity baseball crew. A minimum of 30 unidentified teammates are alleged to have participated within the hazing that was identified by head baseball coach Thomas Caputo and assistant coach Elliot Robles, per the New York Submit.
“Amongst different acts, teammates forcibly positioned soiled underwear on Plaintiff’s face and bodily accosted him,” the lawsuit said. Plaintiff was humiliated, threatened, intimidated, and bodily assaulted, was positioned in concern for his bodily security, and tried to defend himself from the assault. A bodily altercation ensued.”
The incident allegedly occurred on March 5 when the crew was touring to a recreation in Myrtle Seaside, SC.
“The lawsuit contends that satisfactory supervision was not in place throughout that March incident, regardless of insistences by Robles that room checks and supervision of the athletes would happen, in accordance with the lawsuit,” famous the NY Submit.
“Court docket filings counsel that an investigation, which included Caputo and Robles collaborating, had corroborated the sufferer’s accounts of what occurred and that ‘defendants Caputo and Robles have been conscious that Plaintiff had not been the aggressor,’” it added.
Although the lawsuit alleges that Caputo and Robles promised to analyze the incident, the Plaintiff’s lawyer, Mike Della, advised Newsday that his shopper acquired a suspension whereas others confronted no disciplinary motion. The Plaintiff additionally started transferring faculties and has been contemplating leaving baseball altogether.
The college mentioned in a press release that it takes “issues raised by members of our neighborhood severely. This matter is at the moment the topic of pending litigation.”
“Out of respect for that course of, we aren’t able to remark intimately on the allegations. The College strongly disagrees with the allegations and can deal with them via the suitable authorized course of,” it added.
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