- 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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I’m just heartbroken over this… WTH is wrong with people / “adults”? Anyone who was part of the decision to bring such harsh charges against this 15 year-old has blood on their hands! Get a grip America… NOT EVERY ACT has a vile, disgusting reason behind it. The kid was being a kid! ENOUGH ALREADY! I feel for the family and friends of this innocent kid! SMGDH!
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streaking is not a offence worthy of being titled sex offender, he has not violated a girl nor acted in sexual assault also sex offender refers committing sex crimes, this kid has done no such thing. this law is stupid and charge the principle with manslaughter because his actions lead the boy to end his life.
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That’s how illogical and emotionally-charged ‘sex’ offenses have become in America. They are downright draconian because the people labeled as sex offenders are difficult to defend and it gives the scumbags in government an easy group to thump their chests against.
My neighbor’s son was in college when he made the fateful decision to walk home from a house party at 1 AM on a Saturday night, so that he wasn’t driving his car. He went to relieve himself behind a landscape area when a cop walked by. It was the landscaping at the edge of an elementary school, so the cop gave him indecent exposure on school property, and on the sex offenders list he goes. It has ruined his life. He can’t find jobs in the field he went to school for because the employers see him name on there and never even give him a chance to explain it. He lost lots of other opportunities not to mention the horror of being grouped with rapists, pedophiles, and so on.
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lets not forget hes 15..chances are hes a virgin.. the prospect of being put on a sex offenders list without ever having sex is insane.. and he was most likely thinking that being a registered sex offender would most likely mean hes never going to have a girlfriend ..
nudity is not a sex offence..nudists and naturalists are less likely to be pervs ..especialy rapists or molestors cause they grow up less repressed ..more interested in love and being loving then they are in trying to get into peoples pants cause they are more used to people not wearing any
just cause he streaked..a harmless childish prank is no reason to call him a sex offender or deviant
its not even worth expulsion ..detention sure maybe a 3 days suspension
but to ruin his academic career over it ..let alone his life?
are you aware of how many kids in hs go around sending cell phone pictures of the girl they were with last night to 1/2 the class? thats harmful devient behavior but never ends up with expulsion or a sex offender registration
why should streaking a harmless act that traumatizes noone cause so much trouble
i would charge the principle as well as the da with manslaughter
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There appear to be two kinds of Christians here: those who are tenderly susceptible to moral outrages so grave and offensive that the adults among them ( giving testimony, by example, to their God) would subject one of their children (the other kind of Christian) to cruelty of speech and hateful action.–that they would be instruments in his death. God forbid I ever set foot in Alabama.
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The irony? Streaking was a huge fad when all these talking heads in charge that make these absurd lwas were in high school and college. It was a right of passage and apparently back in the day when everything wasn’t a federal offense. Maybe all these sick laws should have age limits, like voting and military age requirements….this way, kids can be kids without being marked for life.
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Amen…
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