News > HS Haze Suit Says Adults Dropped Ball
By Richard Weir
Daily News Staff Writer
Three Long Island high school football players who were sexually assaulted at a camp last summer accused school officials, coaches, the three attackers and their parents of negligence in a lawsuit filed yesterday.
The suit, which followed a grand jury's scathing criticism last week of Mepham High School officials and coaches, charged that the adults should have protected the victims.
The suit called ringleader Ken Carney, 16 a "particularly vicious and violent person" with a documented history of fighting and threatening classmates...
...Two other varsity players, Phil Sofia, 17 and Tom Diasparra, 16, are named in the suit, along with their parents, who "knew that their sons were vicious bullies," said attorney Michael Rubin.
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