Ohio HS faces federal civil rights lawsuit over hazing, sexual assault allegations from former football player

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An Ohio high school is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit after one former student on the football team made several disturbing allegations, including that he was subjected to hazing and sexual assault while attending a football camp in June, according to court documents. 

The complaint, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, named Ursuline High School in Youngstown as a defendant in the case. Several school officials and football coaches, the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown and several unnamed players and parents were also listed as defendants in the lawsuit. 

The accusations in the lawsuit filed on Tuesday stem from a nine-day football camp in June.  (iStock)

According to a press release from The Chandra Law Firm, which is representing the mother of the football player and her daughter, the lawsuit claims that the plaintiff’s son was "violently assaulted" during a nine-day football camp that traveled through Florida, Tennessee and Alabama in June. 

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The boy, who was not identified in the lawsuit but was described as a freshman on the team, claimed that he was sexually assaulted on the first night of the trip by one player. Another player was accused of filming the assault and uploading it to the team’s group Snapchat. The alleged hazing and bullying continued in the days after the initial alleged assault and on the fourth day of camp, the plaintiff alleged that he was assaulted again when he was restrained by several players and stripped until he was completely exposed. 

The alleged assault was again filmed and shared with the same group on