- 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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Categories: Societal
Engineering Evil 
“Yes, hardcore violent offenders like Christian Adamek deserve the labeling he got and his fatal reaction to it was his just desserts!.” — Signed, “A Society Gone Entirely Insane.” Thank you Conlos Terroristas for summing it up! I’m steaming!
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if this were a african american child, all these comments would be different.
it would be more like “oh he deserved it, and thats what you get for commiting a crime”
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Are you serious?
If he was african american Obama would be on T.V saying this is his son yadadadadadada.
This is a shame, and goes to show what happens when the law is more important then the people its supposed to protect.
Way to bring race into a tragedy, I’m sure you feel great sitting on your social justice high horse.
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Wow, Xavier. Pretty ugly. I don’t know anyone who would think it made a difference.
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1. My prayers to the family, friends and community. I hope his peers set up mediation or teen court for students to share more voice in how school policies are enforced especially punishments that can be issued as community service. Teenagers are still so emotionally sensitive that more care should be taken to include them and peer support in due process to overvome the oppressive fear of bullying, exvlusion and helplessness that can be traumatizing and devastating otherwise. The students can learn to take responsibility in a supportive way to prevent this backlash.
2. As for the comment about “hanged not hung.” By traditional English, people are hanged while objects are hung. In more modern vernacular, hanged is still used for execution hangings, while it is now more common to say that people hung themselves, but not other people. Sorry, I just had to add that on behalf of my English teacher who would even cringe at my own laziness in not correcting everything I wrote.
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Takes a community to raise a child. In this case it took a community to kill one. You people make me sick.
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I agree with you Conlos. They were saying it needed to be treated seriously. Like what? Were they offended? When did America get so pu$$y fied?
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It didn’t take a community…it took one overzealous principal, whose threats and resentment..his desire to ruin a kid’s future over a largely harmless prank is what killed him. This is a man who took a student’s hi-jinx personally. A man who then made it his mission to bully and destroy…Good job, Principal Campbell. You killed a kid who ran naked at a football game. I hope you’re proud of yourself.
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He hung himself, not hanged. Yikes!
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Reading this entirely sad story, thats all you get outta it?
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Actually, hanged is correct.
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Incorrect. In the context of lynching, the correct term in hanged. Yikes indeed.
“Hung is the past tense and past participle of hang in most of that verb’s senses. For instance, yesterday you might have hung a picture on the wall, hung a right turn, and hung your head in sorrow. The exception comes where hang means to put to death by hanging. The past tense and past participle of hang in this sense, and only in this sense, is hanged.”
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It’s very disrespectful to say he “hung” himself. Flags are “hung.” People are “hanged.”
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People are hanged. Plus, how is that all that you took away from this awful story?
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no, pictures are hung. people are hanged.
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Actually, the correct form of the word is hanged.
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