I know what happened at LZ (or at least a portion of it), what I know combined with the redacted report that was released was striking in one aspect. That it sounds a lot like Penn State in how there was a real break down in adult leadership and accountability to do the right thing. You have an initial despicable act(s), but, then the turning a if not willful, then overt blind eye to it by the "adults".
I want to be clear, while this incident (act) did not come close to the despicable and utterly evil acts perpetrated by Sandusky, but, it still was shameful and not good. My point comparing PS to LZ is that adults knew something was not quite right in both cases, but, chose to not really pursue it or were at best slow to question anything. The adult employee that first saw the act knew "that's wrong".
The police report describes the incident vaguely, with much of the account blacked out. It says that on Oct. 27, an unnamed employee of the high school heard loud music and a chant of "state, state, state" coming from the locker room and reluctantly decided to see what was going on.
"He wanted the players to have their space and felt that an athletic locker room is a player's safe haven so he wasn't going to check the locker room," the report says. "He got about halfway up the stairs and decided to turn around and check on them anyway."
The employee then allegedly witnessed an act that police blacked out on the report.
"I asked (redacted) if he said anything to anyone in the locker room," Frey wrote. "He stated he said something to the effect of 'That's wrong,' but no one could hear him because of the music. He then left the locker room and returned upstairs."
That is from the Trib article.
Then in the Daily Herald article it talks about the Dean of Students (and asst. FB coach) learning a day later about the incident and the AD and HC learning about it six days later. The timeline does not add up.
So piecing together the different accounts published, and unpublished it appears that a low level employee saw the act, was too intimidated to really act, reported it to a higher authority, the DOS, the next day, the DOS (who happened to be a coach) did not elevate it for an additional 5 days or do anything about it. He was in a position of authority and blew it off for 5 days.
Now you have this kid(s) who had an act(s) perpetrated on them that would be highly embarrassing to talk about publicly. Of course the kids parents are saying "please keep his name out of it" they are trying to protect their kid(s), especially after the adults in positions of authority refused to.
Teenage kids are teenage kids, they do stupid stuff, sometimes incredibly stupid stuff. It is the coaches and adults in the metaphorical "room" responsibility to be a leader, authority and teach accountability. That is what a big part of that "coach" title is about.
This is probably far from over at LZ, a lawsuit will likely be filed, eventually a couple of these adults are going to lose their jobs and its not fully inconceivable that LZ not have FB for a year or two, which would be a real crap sandwich for any player that had nothing to do with this. the uproar from this is going to build.
And to follow on bcc's thoughts, harmless hazing is carrying dummies out to practice or getting their head shaved (at college level), what happened here is far beyond that. A crime was probably committed here, the reason charges are not filled is victim is unwilling to talk about it. Not that it wasn't criminal, but, that they can't get anyone to go on record to prove it.
