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Benjamin Chambers\/Delaware News Journal \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n
Manheim Central (Pa.) takes the field for the start of the football game against Smyrna at Abessinio Stadium in Wilmington, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Manheim won 37-36.<\/p>\n
Historically speaking, the\u00a0Manheim Central Barons\u00a0are one of the most successful programs in the history of\u00a0Pennsyvlania High School Football.\u00a0Their .711 win percentage since beginning in 1947 ranked seventh all-time in the state.<\/p>\n
But at the moment, the program finds itself in the news<\/a> for all the wrong reasons after a pair of current players, a former player, and a former assistant were all charged in an incident involving a \u201cBlack tax\u201d placed on one of the players.<\/p>\n District Attorney Heather Adams alleges that the three players extorted Black teammates by forcing them to pay money to access the locker room, for what they called a Black tax, an amount that regularly increased<\/p>\n This happened three times a week for a month before it was reported to former assistant coach Jared Shearer, who resigned as defensive coordinator amid the investigation.<\/p>\n Ugly Details Emerge From Pennsylvania High School Football Powerhouse<\/p>\n One victim alleges that when he refused to pay the tax, his teammates wrapped him in an extension cord and hit him with elastic exercise bands.<\/p>\n Another claims that the suspects held him down in a bathroom stall and sprayed an unknown aerosol spray at him in a tactic they called the \u201cgas chamber.\u201d The suspects allegedly then exposed their genitals and rubbed them on the victims, according to Adams.<\/p>\n A third victim said the suspects would dance around him naked in the locker room and rub their genitals against him. All of the alleged attacks occurred during school hours.<\/p>\n According to recent census<\/a> data, just three percent of Manheim Township identifies as Black or African American.<\/p>\n Shearer, a mandatory reporter, was allegedly informed of the attacks but did not alert police. He also did not inform the parents of the alleged victims.<\/p>\n School officials claim they were only made aware of the issue in mid-May, when one victim\u2019s parents reported them to the school principal. The principal then filed a ChildLine report and contacted local police after speaking with the victim and several witnesses.<\/p>\n The Manheim Central school board recently accepted a resolution<\/a> to charge former high school football<\/a> head coach David Hahn with failure to protect students. Hahn resigned in June after 11 seasons in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benjamin Chambers\/Delaware News Journal \/ USA TODAY NETWORK Manheim Central (Pa.) takes the field for the start of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[304,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-303242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-high-school-football","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}