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Mead School District to pay $17 million to victims in football hazing suit, jury rules

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By Elena Perry Verified, Garrett Cabeza Verified
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Jun. 25—Mead School District will pay $17 million to the families and victims of a 2023 hazing assault at a school football camp, a jury ruled Thursday. Two former Mead High School students and their families sued the school district after the district took eight months to report the assaults that occurred in June 2023 at a football camp at Eastern Washington University. The jury awarded one of the victims, who is Black, $8 million. The jury awarded another victim, who is white, $7 million.
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Mead School District to pay $17 million to victims in football hazing suit, jury rules

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By Elena Perry Verified, Garrett Cabeza Verified
| The Spokesman-Review Verified
Mead School District will pay $17 million to the families and victims of a 2023 hazing assault at a school football camp, a jury ruled Thursday. Two former Mead High School students and their families sued the school district after the district took eight months to report the assaults that occurred in June 2023 at a football camp at Eastern Washington University. The jury awarded one of the victims, who is Black, $8 million. The jury awarded another victim, who is white, $7 million.
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Tensions rise in Mead hazing trial as defense chides second victim’s family for being ‘emotional’ Original

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By Elena Perry Verified
| The Spokesman-Review Verified
When the victim of a 2023 Mead hazing assault moves to a small town in Oregon, he now knows it will finally be a far enough distance to take his head off a swivel. Since his Mead High School football teammates forcibly assaulted him with a massage gun, the victim has become reclusive, isolating himself for fear of running into an assailant or anyone from school, he said. He told a jury on Tuesday how that anxiety follows him, up until a recent trip to his future home in Oregon.
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