Posted on 10/11/2013 11:54:20 AM PDT by matt04
A popular 15-year-old student has committed suicide after he reportedly faced expulsion and could have been placed on the sex offenders' register simply for streaking at a high school football game. Christian Adamek, from Huntsville, Alabama, hanged himself on October 2, a week after he was arrested for running naked across the Sparkman High football field during a game. The teenager died two days later from his injuries and on Wednesday, friends and family gathered at a memorial service as they struggled to comprehend the beloved student's death. A video of Adamek streaking during a game against a rival team was posted on YouTube hours after the event and students took to Twitter to call him a 'legend'.
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Sparkman High Principal Michael Campbell told WHNT a day before the suicide attempt that the teen could face major repercussions because of his actions. 'There's the legal complications,' Campbell said. 'Public lewdness and court consequences outside of school with the legal system, as well as the school consequences that the school system has set up.'
In Alabama, indecent exposure is linked to the state's sex offender laws, meaning that he could have found himself on the sex offenders register due to the streaking.
Campbell added that that the incident was not just a prank and needed to be treated seriously. Sparkman High administrators even recommended that Adamek face a hearing in the Madison County court system to determine if formal charges would be filed, WHNT reported.
Adamek had also been disciplined by the school district but the details had not been made public. The day before the suicide attempt, the principal had confirmed that Adamek was not at school and the teenager's sister suggested on Twitter that Adamek faced expulsion, AL.com reported.
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.....I'd be embarrassed as all hell seeing my child on Youtube running around a football field naked.
Suicide? Obviously there were personal and mental issues there that any lawsuit you have in mind won't compensate for. But hey, if somebody's got to pay, might as well be the school........
Seems a pretty weak reason to kill yourself. All a bunch of could haves and maybes. Why not wait and see what actually was going to happen. I think this young man had more issues and problems then this streaking incident.....
People always talk about kids bullying other kids, but where is the outrage over bullying by school admins and cops?
Maybe the kid had other problems, who knows.
But a 15 year-old being placed on a sex offender registry for STREAKING is a crime.
What other things can put you on a sex offender registry?
Pantsing someone?
Giving someone a wedgie?
Mooning someone?
Snapping a bra strap?
Shoving a fellow student into the girls room?
Giving someone a swirly?
Stealing a girl’s underwear and hoisting it on a flagpole?
A panty raid?
If you are a 25 year-old guy, maybe.
If you are a 15 year old boy with pimples on your face, WTF? God Almighty, didn’t any of these people have a childhood? I either did some of these things as a 15 year-old or had them done to me.
What have we become? This is shameful. A war on boys indeed. That is exactly what it is.
Yes. See my post at #65. This makes me angrier than hell.
it is the orpahfication mandate.
All sex is deemed rape by males.
Come to think of it, I should just go turn myself in (along with some of my older female partners as well) for dabbling in the "underage" end of the population when I was in High School 45 years ago.
A lot of this is silliness with deadly or other serious consequences.
I’m an attorney, and whether he would have made it onto the sex registry depends a lot on the local state’s attorney and the judge on the case. Odds are he would have escaped on lesser charges, but its not a guaranteed thing. People who don’t belong on the registry can get there anyway. And once you’re there, its pretty rational to conclude your life has been ruined, because it probably has been ruined.
I agree with an earlier poster here that the registry has been grossly abused, and does not represent the true “list” of dangerous individuals. If you make a mistake, you should pay the price. But the price should match the mistake. Its wrong to threaten the moral equivalent of a death sentence over a youthful prank that was completely unrelated to dangerous sexual behavior. And all the more irresponsible if the child was already known to have behavioral/psychological problems.
I forgo a lot of discretionary spending to keep my extended family youngsters in home school, so they don’t have to participate in a society so backwards and depraved as the government school indoctrination system.
Good God. I feel bad for kids today. They can’t be kids, and they especially can’t be stupid kids.
Do I condone this kid streaking across a field in front of the stands? No. Do I think it is stupid? Sure. Do I think he should even be THREATENED with being branded a sex offender?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
I am just glad I am not growing up today. Boy, this really pisses me off. I don’t care if the kid didn’t have a father in his life, if he had other problems or whatever.
To think a 15 year-old kid can be threatened with being branded a sex offender, and will just shrug it off is a shockingly deficient jump of logic for these people.
Agreed.
Campbell added that that the incident was not just a prank and needed to be treated seriously.
No, it was just a prank, and now the kid’s dead. Feel better?
If there was any justice in the world, this same administrator would have to repeat all his words in front of the boy’s casket.
It was a prank, period! I graduated high school at the peak of streaking. At graduation we had four streakers, two girls and two boys ( though I only noticed the girls at the time ) two of them were caught. The punishment? they were not allowed to graduate with the class and had to do clean up on campus during the summer to get their diploma. What has happened in the last 40 years is a crime. Teachers having sex with students is no big deal, but streaking would ruin a young mans life. If I were in school now and did what I did back then I would probably be in prison.
Common sight at my high school!
I am glad I grew up when I did, I fondly recall many things- some I did and some I only witnessed that just would not be tolerated today.
It is a war on boys, I worry about my grandsons- they have been allowed to be boys but it is just not tolerated by city people these days. I am hoping my grandsons can grow up to be real men without encountering this liberal nonsense.
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Seems a mite extreme to me.
That used to be considered a prank. Worthy of being slapped on the wrist (hard, depending on where), but not being grouped with baby rapers for life.
That may well be but post #41 said that the article stated the boy had been in trouble at school before. In fact, it said no such thing.
I’m no expert in psychology but I was a teenager back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I know they sometimes don’t think things through before they act, hence the streaking incident and, apparently, the suicide. My guess is the young man was more terrified of his life being destroyed by the thought of being labeled a sex offender than he was of dying. Chances are that wouldn’t have happened; pisser is, death is forever.
It’s a shame that the so-called adults in this matter didn’t think things through, either, before running their mouths off and making matters worse. I don’t suppose the principal has any legal responsibility here but there was no point in him shouting all of the coming dire consequences from the roof tops. I hope he doesn’t sleep well for a long time thinking about how he could’ve handled the whole mess differently.
If anything, they make people less safe, by burying the serious offenders in a pile of necking kids and pranksters.
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