- 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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Engineering Evil 
If women are allowed to go topless at feminist rallies, a young boy being dumb and streaking should not be taken to court. Nudity is not an offense. It’s indecent, sure, but not worth ruining someone’s life for.
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I remember years ago when streaking was the funny harmless prank at schools all over
the country and I find it outrageous that a school district acted the way it did. A prank, a
harmless prank. You people should be ashamed of yourselves and I sincerely hope
that this child’s death haunts you for the rest of your lives.
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I dont think he regretted the action of streaking more so the backlash from his peers. His peers must have given him a hell of a bad time. Blaming this on the law is easier to understand then actually investigating the motives of some of the students towards him.
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Did you read the article at all? His peers called him a “legend” throughout the school. If anything, that’s praise.
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I think they gave him a hell of a good time for it…I don’t see why his peers wouldn’t be supportive. But those possible charges could be very overwhelming.
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I truly doubt that he’d have caught crap from his ‘peers’. It sounds like that’s not the attitude they took (according to the article). As a high school student, I can’t believe that students would be mad at him for making life more interesting. They’d likely be indifferent or supportive, as I have been after streakings at my school (it was the senior prank last year). Plus threatening prosecution and expulsion (thereby ruining any chance at college or having a decent life [from the high school student’s perspective]) is waaaaaayyyy overboard for streaking. It’s just a naked guy running.
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If by peers you mean being forced on the sex offender’s registry then sure.
Read the article and not just the headline next time.
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I have two second cousins about his age in Huntsville – yet I’m not more afraid of them being there than elsewhere, because this idiocy is EVERYWHERE these days.
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control freak zealots
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Unbelievable! In my highschool yearbook, there is an entire page with a photo of two streakers running through the hallways. How was the picture taken you ask? Wasn’t a real secret, which was why students and teaching staff were lined up in the hallway when the two streaked by, wearing paperbags on their heads and nothing else. Of course the photo in the yearbook was excited with a banner across any offending parts. It was a prank, nothing more. Have to feel sick about this this poor kid.
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