Mom Says Football Players Put Peanuts in Teen's Locker, Purposely Causing Allergy Attack
Comedian and host Joey Adams famously said, “With friends like these, who needs enemies.” Sadly, there are no shortage of instances that prove the adage true. The very people who claim to be in your corner may be working over time to take you out.
That was the case for one Texas high school student who shared health information with his teammates. In a very twisted display his fellow football players used it against him.
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A mom shared that her son told his teammates about his peanut allergy and they exploited it.
Shawna Mannon, the mother of a football player in the Lake Travis Independent School District, is speaking out about the peanut allergy attack her son suffered at the hands of his teammates, KXAN reported.
During a school board meeting, Mannon shared that her son told a couple of teammates that his peanut allergy was so severe it could kill him if he were to touch them or if they were to be placed in his uniform or cleats.
“These two boys then drove over to the high school locker room that evening and did exactly that,” Mannon said, per the news outlet. “They filled his cleats with peanuts and in his locker and in his uniform in the varsity locker room.”
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District officials said they couldn't discuss the punishment because the students are minors.
When Mannon’s son opened his locker to get his uniform, the peanuts started falling. He set his belongings down, in shock, and left the locker room. Later, he noticed his arms had broken out in hives.
Mannon attended the school board meeting to address the punishment that had been handed down to the students. The district claimed that although the incident had been addressed, they could not specify the nature of the punishment due to privacy laws.
Parents and students said the punishment the boys received wasn't enough.
Parents at the school board meeting shared that the discipline was a two-week suspension that resulted in the players missing one game, Fox 7 reported.
Other parents supported Mannon saying that the punishment wasn’t sufficient.
One mom, Belinda Vaca, was sadly all too aware of what food allergies can do. “I lost my only child, on June 26, 2014, after he ate a veggie taco, and he asked three times ‘Does it have peanuts?’ They told him no," she said, per Fox 7.
Vaca worked to help pass a state law in her son's memory.
'Students with food allergies have to live in fear that our allergies could be weaponized against us,' one student said.
Parents weren’t the only ones at the meeting upset about what happened. A Lake Travis student also discussed being troubled by how the school handled the incident, saying “students with food allergies have to live in fear that our allergies could be weaponized against us," Fox 7 reported.
Parents and students are requesting that the students be expelled. Attendees at the meeting claim the student code of conduct mandates expulsion. "We have policies in place in our handbook, and we need to stick with them and enforce them,” one district resident reminded school officials.
No resolution has been made public at this time.
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