Former NFL cornerback Shareece Wright has publicly recognized himself as some of the 12 other people coming ahead accusing a highschool instructor who sexually assaulted them as minors at a Southern California highschool.
Wright, at the side of six former classmates at first sued the Colton Joint Unified College District and previous instructor Tiffany Strauss-Gordon in September of 2022. The selection of former scholars indexed as plaintiffs has since doubled.
“The fewer it’s stored a secret, the more difficult it’s for it to proceed to occur,” Wright, now 36, mentioned on an episode of ESPN’s Outdoor the Traces.
The ex-NFL participant, who attended Colton Prime College (Colton, Calif.) from 2001-05, informed ESPN he hopes that talking out will in the end “forestall it from going down to different youngsters.”
Wright informed ESPN, and in addition alleged within the lawsuit, that he first were given to understand Strauss — the daughter of his soccer trainer Harold Strauss — all through his freshman soccer season. Wright was once 15 on the time, and Strauss-Gordon was once 21. He alleges that the varsity’s lone athletic instructor was once more and more flirtatious with him, preferred him, and gave him a puppy nickname. Over the remainder of his highschool occupation, he alleges that Strauss-Gordon would contact him inappropriately within the coaching room, carry out oral intercourse on him — one thing he alleges avid gamers and coaches jokingly known as “getting the Tiffany remedy” — and that that they had intercourse a number of occasions at her house after crew dinners.
“You’ve were given soccer, you’ve were given the trainer’s daughter, you’ve were given a permissive college setting the place it’s allowed to occur. I imply, you’ve were given form of a super typhoon of sexual abuse which may be lined up simply,” Wright’s lawyer Morgan Stewart, who additionally represents 8 different plaintiffs within the case, informed ESPN.
Former instructor Vladimira Chavez filed a police file in 2011. She informed Colton PD that she heard the scholars speaking in regards to the alleged sexual conduct — Wright and that she reported it to the superintendent, in step with a 2022 interview.
Strauss-Gordon was once suspended with pay, however was once employed at a distinct college within the district the next day to come, in step with OTL. In 2022, when Wright and his teammates filed the go well with, she was once suspended with out pay from her process — and stays suspended — as an athletic director from every other highschool, in step with OTL.
“Essentially, it’s a must to understand that allegations are simply allegations,” Strauss-Gordon’s lawyer, Daniel Kolodziej, informed ESPN. “I might urge the general public to acknowledge that simply because there’s smoke doesn’t imply there’s fireplace.”
“Why do you report a lawsuit? For cash,” Strauss-Gordon informed police in an August 2022 video when requested by means of a detective why more than one allegations had been made.
