15-year-old who streaked at football game commits suicide, faced sex offender reg. & expulsion

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15-year-old who streaked at football game commits suicide, faced sex offender reg. & expulsion

Boy, 15, kills himself after 'facing expulsion and being put on sex offender registry' for streaking prank at high school football game

• Christian Adamek hanged himself on October 2 and died from his injuries two days later - a week after he streaked at his high school football game
• He was arrested and school district recommended he face a court hearing
• If convicted of indecent exposure, he'd have gone on sex offenders list

By LYDIA WARREN
PUBLISHED: 10:40 EST, 10 October 2013

A popular 15-year-old student has committed suicide after he reportedly faced expulsion and could have been placed on the sex offenders' register simply for streaking at a high school football game.

Christian Adamek, from Huntsville, Alabama, hanged himself on October 2, a week after he was arrested for running naked across the Sparkman High football field during a game.

The teenager died two days later from his injuries and on Wednesday, friends and family gathered at a memorial service as they struggled to comprehend the beloved student's death.

A video of Adamek streaking during a game against a rival team was posted on YouTube hours after the event and students took to Twitter to call him a 'legend'.

'Sparkman's new slogan is gonna be "Welcome to Sparkman High School, Home of Christian Adamek",' one student wrote.

But school staff did not treat the situation so lightly.

Sparkman High Principal Michael Campbell told WHNT a day before the suicide attempt that the teen could face major repercussions because of his actions.

'There's the legal complications,' Campbell said. 'Public lewdness and court consequences outside of school with the legal system, as well as the school consequences that the school system has set up.'

In Alabama, indecent exposure is linked to the state's sex offender laws, meaning that he could have found himself on the sex offenders register due to the streaking.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...stry-STREAKING-high-school-football-game.html

 

[amy31416]

This is awful. Streaking, for god's sake.

Keep your children away from the public system as much as possible.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Wow. We've gone from that Ray Stevens song to this.

Better also watch it if you take a leak in public.

 

[RickyJ]

The poor boy did not have enough fight in him to fight these bastards. You don't ever let others determine your happiness or your successfulness or you most surely will be a miserable failure.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

being naked is now a sex crime

 

[angelatc]

That picture breaks my heart.

Those people don't feel one bit of remorse.

 

[Mani]

That picture breaks my heart.

Those people don't feel one bit of remorse.

That's the secondary tragedy.

The first, this boys life came to a sudden end when he couldn't deal with the fact we would be branded a sex offender for the rest of the his days.

The second....The people who tried to ruin his life, don't really care.

 

[Occam's Banana]

It is the thankless but vitally important task of our fine public school officials (such as Principal Campbell and the staff of Sparkman High) to instill in our children an appropriate degree of respect for and submission to the rules of our society. The unfortunate Mr. Adamek is no different than any other miscreant who willfully flouts the authority of the institutions upon which our civilization depends.

Lack of compliance will NOT be tolerated.

That is all.

 

[getch36]

so sad,this is heartbreaking that a life is lost over fuckin nonsense..........

 

[TER]

Lord have mercy... May God grant comfort and hope to those who knew and loved this child of God. Lord, have mercy...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Uh, nothing about this story adds up.

 

[Origanalist]

Campbell declined to comment on Adamek's death but the Madison County school district issued a statement saying it had 'received word that a Sparkman High School student has passed away'.

'Our prayers and thoughts are with the family during this time of bereavement,' the statement read.

Hollow sentiments at best.

 

[tod evans]

Courts and lawyers are not going to fix problems like this.

 

[Origanalist]

I running out of patience with the authoritarian tyrants running wild in this country. This was a regular occurrence when I went to school. Sure the students would be called into the office, maybe even get a one day suspension, but never did anybody consider charging them with being sex offenders.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Tell me, who are the "bullies"?

Now you know why government has been so red-hot on all this anti-bullying propaganda.

Like numbers and dope rackets, they hate the competition.

 

[Origanalist]

Watch it while you can......

Published on Oct 7, 2013
The following news footage/article was scrubbed from the WHNT website. It shows school Principal Campbell publicizing the troubles of student Christian Adamek right before the young man committed suicide. The school's administration was pressing for serious charges against the young man. Read more below:

MADISON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) -- Sparkman High School Principal Mike Campbell says during a time out at last Friday night's football game at home against Grissom High School a male student ran nude across the field.

The incident was captured in part with a 6 second video using the Vine app and was later posted to YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JT0Y2...)

"A lot of times it's a prank, someone put them up to it, someone offers them money, they do it for school spirit or various reasons but they don't look at all the consequences," says Campbell.

Campbell explains minor crime can be a major ordeal. While the principal was not at liberty to discuss the specific disciplinary actions taken by the school, he did confirm the student was not at school Tuesday.

Then comes the legal repercussions. Criminal defendants who have not quite reached the age of majority go through a different criminal justice system than the one most people are familiar with. Children as young as 12 and as old as 18 are typically taken to juvenile court. Campbell says the school did recommend the student have a hearing within the Madison County Court System to determine if formal charges will be filed.

"There's the legal complications," says Campbell, "public lewdness and court consequences outside of school with the legal system as well as school consequences that the school system has set up."

While he was not at liberty to divulge details that lead to the indecent display, Campbell says the incident was much more than a mere prank.

"This situation was totally different, something not related to that at all."

Once a case is referred to juvenile court, a juvenile court officer (often a probation officer) or prosecutor will then make a decision on whether to dismiss the matter, handle the matter "off the record", or file formal charges for the crime.

In additional potential public lewdness, the student could also face indecent exposure charges.

A basic indecent exposure charge is usually considered a misdemeanor level offense. The punishment for a misdemeanor indecent exposure conviction is probation up to a year or two in jail and a fine. Defendants who are placed on probation may have to attend specialized counseling and refrain from using the Internet except for limited purposes.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Wow. We've gone from that Ray Stevens song to this.

Better also watch it if you take a leak in public.

Now everybody knows how far gone we are, in 35 years.

 

[Origanalist]

This story is nowhere to be found in the so called national media.

 

[tod evans]

If the adults in this town do not publically ridicule, spit on and otherwise humiliate Mike Campbell at every opportunity until he up and leaves the state then they deserve his terroristic reign.

People who use laws and regulations in this type of extreme are no better than some dude with a car bomb.

It's not just Mike Campbell either, the DA must be held to the same standard!

Run the slimy bastards out of town!

 

[Origanalist]

If the adults in this town do not publically ridicule, spit on and otherwise humiliate Mike Campbell at every opportunity until he up and leaves the state then they deserve his terroristic reign.

People who use laws and regulations in this type of extreme are no better than some dude with a car bomb.

It's not just Mike Campbell either, the DA must be held to the same standard!

Run the slimy bastards out of town!

Absolutely 100% correct. Until people start putting these slimeball tyrants into their place the beatings will continue.