Officials in Marion County, Tenn., said Thursday that two juniors on Whitwell High School’s football team were expelled after admitting they struck a freshman football player on the back with a belt on Wednesday.
“The two gentlemen who carried out these acts were expelled today,” Marion County Director of Schools Mark Griffith said Thursday. “Their fate will be determined by a disciplinary hearing in the coming days. State law says we’ll have 10 days to schedule that. It’ll probably be sooner rather than later.”
Griffith said the victim in the incident was examined by a physician on Thursday to determine whether he’d suffered any injuries.
While the incident happened before football practice on Wednesday, the victim and the two juniors participated in practice, he said.
Mark GriffithGriffith said he learned about the incident sometime around 8 or 9 a.m. Thursday.