Category Archives: Hazings

HS Football Coach Fired After Hazing Incident That Involved “Butt Cheeks Hanging Out”

Have we heard of worse high school hazing incidents? Of course. Should a coach always be fired when an hazing incident is uncovered on their team? No. It depends on whether it can be proven the coach knew and/or condoned the behavior and if there is reason to believe they could have prevented it.

This most recent hazing incident involves Scott Pearne, the now former head football coach at Jurupa Valley Patriot High School (CA). From the report in the Press Enterprise, the school district made a pretty quick decision to fire him after the incident came to light.

We also found the testimony of one school mom about the incident to the school board:

The district learned of the hazing allegations on Monday, Aug. 20, when a member of the community contacted school officials and later spoke during the public comment section of that night’s board meeting.  In the video recording of the meeting on the district website, the female speaker said she was “delivering a casserole” to an event at the high school and “was shocked as a community member and just disgusted as a parent to see the behavior of these boys.

“I guess it was dress as a girl night, and all these boys were dressed up in girl attire. … There was one particular young man that had a, I don’t know if you know what a cheeky bathing suit is, but it actually shows your butt cheeks, and this boy’s butt cheeks were hanging out.”

Division II College Suspends Men’s Soccer Program Over Hazing Incident

Ever heard of Humbolt State University? Neither had we, until this report came out from Soccer America about them cancelling the entire 2012 season after an alleged hazing incident involving some heavy drinking came to light.

Division II Humboldt State suspended its men’s program for the 2012 as a result of a hazing ritual at an off-campus party where new players were ordered to perform humiliating acts and engage in heavy drinking.

“Following careful investigation including interviews with team members, the university has concluded that an incident of hazing did occur, and that it placed the lives of two students in real jeopardy,” Humboldt State president Rollin Richmond said in a letter to the campus. The announcement followed an investigation into the Aug. 4 incident of hazing and underage drinking at the party attended by more than 20 players from the Northern California school.

Seem extreme? Sometimes this is the only solution if you really want to get the point across that sports hazing will not be tolerated.

Victims Claim High School Jock “Hit Them With His Penis” During Year Long Hazing Events

Seth Kellen

Seth Kellen

Is it really hazing when an older teammate repeatedly tries to stick his finger in your anus, grabs your junk or makes you grab his over a period of almost a year? How about if someone pulls his own pants down in an elevator, jumps on your back and beats you with his penis? We suppose it could be, but if the charges against Browerville High School (MN) athletes, Seth J. Kellen, 18, and Connor S. Burns, 18, prove to be true it would certainly be one of the worst hazing incidents we’ve ever reported. And if it’s not some kind of hazing, then these two are just strange birds.

The recent graduates face a variety of similar, but different charges: Kellen is charged with both felonies and misdemeanors, including third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving penetration and indecent exposure in a public setting, while Burns is charged with six counts of criminal sexual conduct, four of them felonies and two gross misdemeanors.

So, what exactly did these small town multi-sport jocks do to face these kinds of charges? According to the lengthy article in the Star-Tribune:

Connor Burns

Connor Burns

Football and basketball players at Browerville High School were repeatedly sexually assaulted by teammates in showers, elevators and hotel rooms, according to criminal charges that have authorities puzzled that the attacks continued for months without anyone complaining or investigating.  In April, a parent went to a school official about a sexual incident in August 2011 at Horseshoe Lake, about 4 miles north of Browerville.

After the football team’s practice, led by the captains, several players went to the lake for a swim. Some team members began dunking a teammate and sexually assaulted him while he was underwater.  A 17-year-old player alleged that in March at the state tournament, Burns held him down in their downtown Marriott Hotel room while another teammate digitally penetrated him through his athletic shorts.

The next night, the 17-year-old endured the same, this time with one teammate holding him down while Burns and Kellen carried out the assault, the charges said.  Kellen also is accused of pulling down his own pants while in a Minneapolis parking ramp elevator with his teammates and two student managers, ages 11 and 12. Kellen then jumped on teammates’ backs and hit them with his penis, according to the charges.

Kellen also is accused of sexually assaulting football and basketball teammates numerous times in the locker room, in a school hall or in a locker room shower.  His assaults were alleged to often involve penetrating or attempting to penetrate teammates digitally through clothing, groping teammates’ genitals or trying to make them touch his genitals. One teammate he allegedly victimized was 13 years old, another 14 at the time.

So, the real question is: how did this kind of behavior go unnoticed by coaches or teachers for an entire school year? No one EVER noticed this kind of behavior from these two? We find that hard to believe, but we’ll let the legal system do its work.