One of the expelled students was a senior and will now not be allowed to graduate from the school.
SAN ANTONIO — Two students have been expelled from Central Catholic High School after being accused of hazing and sexual harassment.
The announcement comes a day after reports came out about SAPD investigating allegations of a student being bullied and sexually harassed by soccer team members.
The family says their son’s fellow soccer team members exposed their genitals in a harassing and demeaning way in multiple incidents in the team locker room. He claims he was also locked in a cage within the locker room multiple times and harassed by the teammates.
Local attorney Jesse Guerra alleges the latest incident in the locker room happened on April 29th of this year. The teen’s mother, Christina Garcia, said when he left the school that day, he wasn’t okay.
“He said to me, ‘if you send me to the school for three more years, I will kill myself,'” Garcia said.
She said her son had brought his younger brother for ‘shadow day’ and he’d really wanted to go see the locker room where his older brother spent a lot of time.
“He wasn’t sure of going.”
Hesitant, the 15-year-old took his younger brother. That’s when Guerra and Garcia say the two saw boys kissing, hitting each other, and an older player proceeded to lock the older brother in a cage.
“While he was locked inside a cage with this senior he put his hands inside his (the victim’s) pants and said I’m going to put my penis ****** all over you,” Guerra said.
The school said they immediately opened their own investigation into the claims, leading to two students being expelled from the campus and three others had “appropriate disciplinary actions taken based on their actions revealed in the investigation.”
One of the expelled students was a senior and will now not be allowed to graduate from the school.
“Bullying, hazing or violations of law are not tolerated and have no place at Central Catholic High School. The Board of Directors is committed to Central Catholic’s mission of providing an education in the Catholic Marianist tradition, teaching young men to serve others, establish justice and ensure peace to all of God’s creatures,” said the school.