Exclusive | NYC high schooler denies sexual hazing claims, but says hes now being bullied: Theyre calling me P-Diddy
A Brooklyn high schooler accused of sexually hazing a JV football teammate last year said he’s now being mercilessly bullied by his classmates — and maintains the incident never happened.“The whole team is saying it’s a lie,” 15-year-old James Madison High School student Neijee Hunter told The Post.
“Now they’re calling me P-Diddy.They called me gay, and they’re saying this because of something I didn’t do.
They’re leaving baby oil in my locker.”Hunter and two other players on the Midwood school’s junior varsity team were accused of holding down a teammate in October, pulling off his clothes and touching his “private area,” police and sources said.The alleged victim’s mother blew the whistle on the incident, which abruptly ended the team’s season, got one of the coaches fired — and ended with the accused hazers ostracized from their peers, Hunter and his family said.The teen and his parents said the whole thing was overblown, and was just typical horsing around by the team that did not involve any sexual contact or assault.“When the school called us and told us we needed to get down there, I got there fast and the police were already there,” his father, Early Hunter, told The Post.“We went to court three times.
They declined to prosecute in family court.The judge said he didn’t know why this was in court.“The school made such a big thing about it before investigating,” he said.
“They called the police immediately.They charged them and took all three of them out in handcuffs like they were real criminals.”The elder Hunter even released a video of the incident last year, showing it was just rough-housing.Other James Madison parents also chimed in after the incident, calling the arrests excessive and telling The Post that disciplining the boys would have been punishment enough.The Hunters said the alleged victim of the incident was taken out of the school by his mother — and the reputed bullies were returned to c...