High school football player allegedly stomped, jabbed with broomstick by teammates as coaches hid it: DA

Ten members of a Pennsylvania precocious schoolhouse shot team, including respective coaches, look charges aft a subordinate was allegedly stomped with cleats, and jabbed successful the buttocks with a broomstick.

According to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, a 15-year-old subordinate was allegedly assaulted connected 2 abstracted occasions successful 2025 by teammates from Cheltenham High School.

Prosecutors said the archetypal incidental happened connected Aug. 15, 2025, and was recorded by 2 juvenile players, past shared with students and different teammates implicit the pursuing semester.

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Isaiah Simpson, 18, was charged with conspiracy to perpetrate aggravated assault, elemental assault, recklessly endangering different idiosyncratic and related charges. (CSD Cheltenham High School)

During the alleged Aug. 15 incident, prosecutors said that the video signaling showed respective shot players utilizing a broomstick to poke the victim's buttocks, and besides showed different juvenile teammates holding him down. No coaches were contiguous during the Aug. 15 incident.

Several witnesses allegedly saw Isaiah Simpson, 18, kicking oregon stomping connected the unfortunate during the 2nd incidental connected Sept. 3, 2025.

The aforesaid juvenile from the Aug. 15 incidental utilized a broomstick to poke astatine the victim's butt, according to the expansive assemblage filing.

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The unfortunate told investigators that during the Sept. 3 incident, helium curled into a shot successful his shot instrumentality to shield his caput portion others allegedly kicked, stomped and punched him successful the caput and groin with cleats.

The coaches, again, weren't progressive successful the Sept. 3 incidental but 4 coaches would aboriginal larn astir it, according to authorities.

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Simpson was charged with conspiracy to perpetrate aggravated assault, elemental assault, recklessly endangering different idiosyncratic and related charges. Another shot player, Josiah Peeler, 18, was charged with mendacious swearing. Four different shot players were charged, but their names weren't released arsenic they're juveniles.

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Cheltenham High School caput shot manager Terence Tolbert, 55, faces charges of conspiracy to endanger the payment of a kid and endangering the payment of a child. (Facebook/Terence Tolbert)

Volunteer manager Ralph Burnley, 60, gave the unfortunate a thrust location aft signifier erstwhile helium learned that the subordinate was "jumped" and injured successful his genital area. Burnley past called caput manager Terence Tolbert, 55, and told him what happened.

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Text messages betwixt coaches followed that call, starring to a radical telephone with the victim. Assistant manager Darian "DJ" McFadden, 42, and Tolbert allegedly told the unfortunate the substance would beryllium handled and asked him not to archer his parent astir the incident.

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Assistant manager Benjamin Johnson III, 45, allegedly joined different coaches successful a determination to support the substance in-house alternatively than alert the schoolhouse oregon the boy's mother, fearing it could jeopardize the team.

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Josiah Peeler, 18, was charged with mendacious swearing successful transportation with the Cheltenham High School shot hazing case. (CSD Cheltenham High School)

The coaches were deed with charges of conspiracy to endanger the payment of a kid and endangering the payment of a child.

The victim's parent learned of the 2nd alleged onslaught soon afterward from a comparative who had heard astir it from different parents. She past took the unfortunate to the hospital, wherever helium was diagnosed with a contusion to his penis.

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High schoolhouse administrators learned of the alleged hazing done an anonymous reporting app, called constabulary and past canceled the shot team's season.

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Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said, "These assaults connected a shot subordinate were not the emblematic goofing astir by teammates. These were crimes."

"Numerous witnesses, galore reluctant to stock what they saw and knew, testified astir what occurred successful the Cheltenham High School locker country connected these 2 occasions and testified astir actions taken by immoderate of the shot coaches aft the assaults," helium said. "After cautiously considering each of the grounds and evidence, including reviewing the recovered videos of 1 of the assaults, the Grand Jury recommended charges against the 4 juveniles, 2 different shot players and 4 coaches."