Two Chicago high school football coaches and four players were arrested for beating a 14-year-old with belt in a hazing incident. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Tom Cipriani, 47, and Jonathan Manning, 20, were charged with misdemeanor battery and the endangering the life of a child, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The Prosser Career Academy coaches were also barred from the school, and the accused students face up to a 10-day suspension.
One of the coaches even recorded the beating of the teen with a video camera, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Despite the serious charges, students told WLS-TV that the whole incident was just horse-play.
“They \[are\] always just playing around. There was no harm to him. He didn’t get no bruises or nothing,” said football player Antonio Hillard.
“It’s football. It’s not no soft sport. Everybody got to go through it. If you don’t like it, don’t play,” student Nikel Webster said.
