YOUNGSTOWN — Multiple Ursuline High School officials and students have been named as defendants in a federal lawsuit.
The suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by the parents of a student, alleges that the boy was physically and sexually assaulted by members of the football team and that the school dismissed the family’s complaints and engaged in a coverup.
According to a news release issued by Subodh Chandra of the Chandra Law Firm in Cleveland, the incident, which allegedly occurred during a football team field trip to Florida, Tennessee and Alabama in June, included video and photos of the acts, in which the boy was partially or entirely nude, and those were sent to other students and members of the community. That constitutes dissemination o