Proctor, MN Update: Football Coach Out Amid Claims of Brutal High School Hazing
A longtime Minnesota high-school football coach has stepped down amid a police investigation into hazing that students say saw a football player forcibly held down and sodomized.
Derek Parendo, head coach at Proctor High School, resigned “all positions” with the school district on Monday night, Superintendent John Engelking told the Duluth News Tribune. Parendo had served as the football coach since 2008, and he had worked for the school district for 21 years. The school board accepted a separation agreement with the coach late Monday.
His resignation is just the latest development in a twisted saga that has gripped the suburban Duluth town of 3,000 for weeks and prompted school officials to offer counseling to students. While school officials and the Proctor Police Department have confirmed only that the investigation involves allegations of “serious misconduct” on the football team, several students interviewed by CBS Minnesota last week described a brutal hazing incident that was posted on social media.
“It’s bad, it’s bad,” one senior high school student, Phoenix Koski, told the news outlet. Multiple students cited in the report said a football player was forcibly held down while a teammate used an object to sodomize him. Videos and photos of the attack are said to have spread like wildfire on Snapchat.
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