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The lawsuit says the video was taken in 2016 and the parents didn’t find out about it until 2017. Sometime around Feb 17 it says they went to the school and notified them of video and it being watched and spread at school. School gave parents the run around and said for parents to talk to police if they wanted to.
  School supposedly looked into it. Principal and superintendent talked to Suratt who talked to be QB who took the video and then told the parents that it was a he said she said situation...nothing they could do. 
 

This statement perfectly sums up everything

"It's a bad situation where alot of the people in power at Carthage hoped it would disappear and it didnt." 

Wish I was wrong but this has everything to do with football because it appears the male football & baseball player and his family were protected and the female athlete & cheerleader were left to fend for themselves. There is no other way to view this. 
   You also need to take into account that this kid was being counted on to be a star athlete from the time he and his father graced the sidelines every Thursday and Friday night when he was younger. 
   It's a bad situation where alot of the people in power at Carthage hoped it would disappear and it didnt.  

Players and coaches are sharing nude videos of high school girls, but please leave football out of this lol

So what about the age of the victim? Does that matter?

If all this is true, the school district is about to be hit hard by this law suit. It will be interesting to see how it plays out in court.

Agree. How can any other way be fair? If it wasn't the championship QB and the brilliant head coach on their 6th? championship then the girl that was victimized repeatedly, and i guess is victimized to this day because carthage still denies anything happened, would have been supported. Suit says school counselor never even spoke to her??? Entire school passing this video around including coaches and counselor can't help young lady bc might hurt Football.

Sorry. There's more to life

Nobody is advocating for getting rid of the football team. That's ridiculous.  However, anybody involved in the act or the cover up, should be gone. Coach, player, administrator, or student. 

The suit says that Homeland Security had to come to town because the local PD sat on it. By the way, Coach Surratt's secretary just happens to be the local Chief of Police's wife. Imagine that.

The Feds scanned phones and found evidence of video and widespread distribution. Local DA did nothing until the State gave them a deadline to take action. When they finally took action this year...a year after being notified, they supposedly gave the kid pre-trial diversion.

The purpose for that was they had to do something, so did the absolute minimum. Also, this kept everything under wraps which was supposed to keep Carthage High from taking any responsibility in the matter and to escape detection that they possibly broke the law by not notifying police themselves, completely failed to protect one of their students so they could protect their Quarterback, head coach Surratt, the Principal, and the School Superintendent.

If you don't think this was corrupt, well, you'd fit right in on the Carthage coaching staff