'Humiliating' act white cheerleaders forced black teammate to do while they took photos and video

A radical of achromatic cheerleaders forced their achromatic teammate to get connected each fours and enactment similar a 'pet' arsenic they recorded the 'humiliating' act, a caller suit has revealed. 

The student's parents filed a 40-page suit connected Thursday against the Cumberland Valley School District - located successful Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. 

The ineligible filing alleges that their daughter, referred to lone arsenic Jane Doe 2, faced 'discrimination' and 'bullying' from her chap teammates, adults, and coaches with the Cumberland Valley High School competitory cheerleading squad during a contention trip.

The alleged incidental occurred erstwhile the squad traveled to the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championships successful Walt Disney World Florida successful February 2024, arsenic different cheerleader went to get Jane Doe 2 from her edifice room. 

Despite feeling 'reluctant to go,' the pupil followed her teammate to different country filled with a radical of cheerleaders due to the fact that 'she was peer-pressured into doing so,' the lawsuit, reviewed by DailyMail.com, stated. 

When she got there, her chap teammate, named lone arsenic Jane Doe 3, told the achromatic cheerleader to 'get down connected each fours and unreal to beryllium an animal' arsenic she 'walked astir and had Jane Doe 2' travel her 'as if she was connected a leash,' the suit detailed, adding that the enactment was 'reminiscent of slavery.'

As Jane Doe 2 got connected her hands and knees to execute the outrageous act, different 1 of her teammates recorded her, portion Jane Doe 3 - a existent elder - insisted she grin for a selfie 'to commemorate the moment,' the suit said.

The filing added that parents and coaches were connected the travel arsenic chaperones, and that they 'knew what had been done to Jane Doe 2 successful the edifice room.' 

One woman, identified arsenic Ms. Pickel, referred to arsenic an 'attack canine for the coaches,'  past made definite to beryllium adjacent to Jane Doe 2 connected the level thrust location pursuing the alleged moment. 

During the level ride, Pickel 'interrogated and harassed' the cheerleader', making it 'perfectly wide to her that what happened to her successful Florida was not to beryllium revealed to anyone,' including her parents, according to the lawsuit.

Following the alleged traumatic incident, Jane Doe 2 confided successful Michael Craig, the school's diversion director. 

After speaking to him successful April, 2 months aft the alleged encounter, Craig 'said helium would look into it, but instantly went silent,' the suit detailed. 

The filing added that Craig remained soundless astir the alleged incidental arsenic 'a tacit admittance that helium knew astir the complained of discriminatory conduct, harassment, and bullying successful 1 of the diversion programs helium oversaw.' 

The student's father, John Doe, past took matters into his ain hands and decided to code the substance astatine a committee gathering connected May 6, and again connected May 20 aft helium heard thing back. 

A committee member, Harold 'Bud' Shaffner, past grew aggravated with John Doe and 'chased' him successful the parking batch 'and began threatening him and others,' the suit added. 

Shaffner, the hubby of Kristi Shaffner, 1 of the cheerleading coaches, lone stopped his antics aft different parents pulled retired their compartment phones to grounds him, the filing said. 

'Mr. Shaffner besides made it inherently wide that if John Doe did not similar the racist situation astatine CVSD, past Plaintiffs were not invited successful the schoolhouse district,' the documents said. 

The schoolhouse committee past 'refused to investigate' Shaffner's behaviour aft the enactment with him and John Doe, the suit said. 

The suit besides elaborate different instances wherever Jane Doe and John Doe witnessed their girl being upset astatine the hands of the team. 

The filing said her parents often saw her outcry erstwhile they picked her up from cheer events and practices, that she asked to transportation to a antithetic schoolhouse oregon district, 'became saddened, tense and withdrawn,' and that she stopped 'engaging successful activities that she antecedently enjoyed.' 

Her parents besides shared that Jane Doe 2 adjacent placed a transcript of the 'Serenity Prayer' successful her country 'and repeated it arsenic a mantra to get done the radical discrimination, harassment, and bullying she was enduring,' the suit detailed. 

In effect to the archetypal bullying and favoritism claims brought guardant earlier the lawsuit, Cumberland School District closed their probe connected it backmost successful October, WHP reported. 

According to the lawsuit, the schoolhouse committee 'chose to screen it up' alternatively of 'fixing their issues with the creation, fostering, and perpetuation of a racially hostile and pro-bullying environment.' 

The miss and her parents hold that the schools 'investigation was a sham,' and that the instrumentality steadfast it hired, McNees, Wallace, & Nurick, were lone brought successful 'to supply the conclusions the Board wanted,' the suit said. 

The filing concluded that due to the fact that of the alleged enactment with her teammates, and those after, Jane Doe 2 has experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD, occupation sleeping, and fearfulness of retaliation, among different setbacks. 

The parents and their girl person requested a assemblage trial, and besides 'demand judgement successful their favor' and against each named defendants, including interest, punitive damages, and the outgo of attorneys, the suit said. 

DailyMail.com contacted Dr. Mark A. Blanchard, the Superintendent of Cumberland Valley School District, and the Cumberland Valley Cheerleading squad for comment.