- Christian Adamek hanged himself on October 2 and died from his injuries two days later – a week after he streaked at his high school football game
- He was arrested and school district recommended he face a court hearing
- If convicted of indecent exposure, he’d have gone on sex offenders list
By Lydia Warren
PUBLISHED: 10:40 EST, 10 October 2013 | UPDATED: 10:50 EST, 10 October 2013
A popular 15-year-old student has committed suicide after he reportedly faced expulsion and being placed on the sex offenders’ register simply for streaking at a high school football game.
Christian Adamek, from Huntsville, Alabama, hanged himself on October 2, a week after he was arrested for running naked across the Sparkman High football field during a game.
The teenager died two days later from his injuries and on Wednesday, friends and family gathered at a memorial service as they struggled to comprehend the beloved student’s death.
A video of Adamek streaking during a game against a rival team was posted on YouTube hours after the event and students took to Twitter to call him a ‘legend’.
Loss: Christian Adamek, 15, hanged himself last week after he faced possible expulsion and criminal charges for streaking across his high school’s football field during a game the week earlier
‘Sparkman’s new slogan is gonna be “Welcome to Sparkman High School, Home of Christian Adamek”,’ one student wrote.
But school staff did not treat the situation so lightly.
Sparkman High Principal Michael Campbell told WHNT a day before the suicide attempt that the teen could face major repercussions because of his actions.
‘There’s the legal complications,’ Campbell said. ‘Public lewdness and court consequences outside of school with the legal system, as well as the school consequences that the school system has set up.’
Incident: Adamek, seen right, was filmed streaking across the school football field on September 27
In Alabama, indecent exposure is linked to the state’s sex offender laws, meaning that he could have found himself on the sex offenders register due to the streaking.
Campbell added that that the incident was not just a prank and needed to be treated seriously.
Sparkman High administrators even recommended that Adamek face a hearing in the Madison County court system to determine if formal charges would be filed, WHNT reported.
Adamek had also been disciplined by the school district but the details had not been made public.
The day before the suicide attempt, the principal had confirmed that Adamek was not at school and the teenager’s sister suggested on Twitter that Adamek faced expulsion, AL.com reported.
Popular: After the streaking, fellow students called Adamek, pictured, a ‘legend’ but the school district took it far more seriously, recommending that he had a court hearing and disciplining him
Missed: He is pictured with his mother, Angela, in his younger years. He also leaves behind a brother and sister
Campbell declined to comment on Adamek’s death but the Madison County school district issued a statement saying it had ‘received word that a Sparkman High School student has passed away’.
‘Our prayers and thoughts are with the family during this time of bereavement,’ the statement read.
The messages on Twitter have now turned from congratulatory to somber.
‘Praying for the Adamek family. Christian was so funny and nice. He will be missed by so many,’ one girl wrote.
The family – Adamek leaves behind his mother, Angela, and a sister and a brother – shared photos and memories online of the fun-loving teen, who was pictured posing and grinning at the camera.
At Wednesday’s memorial service, his Boy Scout Troop master, David Silvernail, said Adamek was a popular teenager who always had a smile on his face.
Questions: The principal of Sparkman High School in Harvest, Alabama has not commented on the suicide
‘There are two kinds of people in the world; ones that brighten the room when they walk in and those that don’t,’ he said.
‘He was one that brightened the room when he walked in. That’s what I’ll always remember about Christian.’
His mother, Angela, thanked her son’s friends and said they could learn from his life, AL.com reported.
‘Remember to smile, don’t be afraid to do something goofy and remember the consequences of those actions, ask for help when you need it, ask for help if you think your friends need it if you don’t know what to do, be quirky, be happy, be smart,’ she said.
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Seriously the school offered condolence when they’re the ones who put it all in motion. Expulsion I can see but being put on the sex offenders list come on a little to harsh for a prank. Who did he touch who did he rape/molest? No one. Indecent exposer at the most but not the sex offenders list. They freaking show you everything in their dang sex education class in 5th grade ( which I am so against ). Yes the kids need to know about their bodies but to show them how to have sex and make a baby at that age I think not. All that does is get these kids out there doing it behind their parents backs and having babies at 14 and 15 yrs old. So why should this kid have even been facing being put on the sex offenders list when the schools do worse? And yes I blame the schools for my daughter having a child at age 15 after being in their class.
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You should reread this and realize what an idiot you sound like. Your daughter went out and had sex because no one told her anything about it and she had to go find out for herself, just like all the other children of parents with heads in the sand about sex. If you talked to her honestly about sex, she probably wouldn’t have even wanted to have it till she was older. We had sex education in 5th grade and the general response was, no thanks. The one girl whose foolish parents pulled her out of sex ed class? She had sex at 14 and was pregnant by 19. Thinking that you can “protect” kids from sex by telling them nothing is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. You cannot prevent people going through puberty from being interested in sex. However, you can teach them about how to be safe when they’re ready. You just let television do the job. Blaming your faults on education is pathetic.
As for this story, the general lack of compassion and tolerance on children in public schools, and the demonizing of anything sexual or involving nudity in our society is at best ignorant and at worst criminalizing the natural behavior of human beings.
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Hear, HEAR! @President Awesome!
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Lack of Parenting and having blinders on thinking if you do not talk about it then it will go away. If you do not like what schools are teaching then be open to you children talking to you or you talk to them….
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This is total bullshit, literally EVERYTHING that has ever gotten a laugh and has never hurt anyone before in the past is being treated as pure evil, it’s getting to the point that you’re not going to want to interact with anyone or leave your home for fearing of getting in trouble for ANYTHING. This shit needs to stop and they need to lay back on who the fuck goes on that list, other wise before you know it you’re going to have the entire fucking planet on that list and then it will be pointless to even have that list.
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Reblogged this on Marvin Mathew.
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Another example of political correctness gone awry along with loss of common sense…..
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The public school system has many downfalls when it comes to dealing with kids behavior. What is good for the whole instead of looking at the individual.
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Is it political correctness or is it simple CYA? Suppose someone streaks in HS but the administration does nothing about it. Then say a few years later, they’re age of majority, and they expose themselves. The administrator gets fired for not reporting the “red flag” incident. I’m not saying it’s right–I’m saying that most administrators would choose the CYA route.
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