Water polo sex attack victim graduates in Spain after fleeing posh Cali school over vile attacks

A water polo player who was allegedly the victim of racism and repeated sexual assault at his $50,000-a-year private school in Los Angeles, has graduated after fleeing overseas.In a post on Instagram, Aidan Romain proudly walked across the stage at his college in Barcelona to get his degree after being forced to relocate there to continue his water polo training in 2024.“Thank you to Dwight Global for providing a rigorous education while giving me the flexibility to pursue my dream and play professional water polo,” his post read. “One of the best parts of this journey was meeting friends from all over the world and learning alongside such an international and accomplished community.Thank you for everything.”The move to Spain followed the alleged vile attacks against him which included daily racial slurs and digitally penetrating him on campus, by teammates of his Southern California school, according to court documents. The suit alleges his teammate Lucca Van Der Woude and two other teammates repeatedly subjected Romain, who was a minor at the time, to racist and sexual abuse between August 2022 and February 2024.Harvard-Westlake School, which has annual fees of $52,500, allegedly failed to report, investigate, or take protective measures after being told about the reported abuse, according to the suit.“Van Der Woude harbored and expressed racist, antisemitic, and white-nationalist beliefs during the period in which he sexually and physically abused” Romain and other students, according to the revised lawsuit.“Van Der Woude regularly used the slur ‘n—–,’ made denigrating comments regarding Black people and slavery, and engaged in racially hostile conduct” directed toward Romain and other minority students, the suit alleged.The papers also said Van Der Woude “made repeated antisemitic statements toward Jewish students and individuals within his social circle.”“According to witness reports, Van Der Woude referred to a Jewish peer usin...