Federal Lawsuit: Boy Wrestled Against Girl, Sexually Assaulted Her
A 15-year-old girl and her mom have sued the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) and several other defendants because a boy molested the girl during a girls’ wrestling match.
Outrageous footage of the match shows the bruiser on top of Kallie Keeler as she struggles against him. Her mom, Stephanie Brown, recorded the assault but didn’t know what was going on.
The lawsuit, filed four days after prosecutors declined to file charges against the boy, alleges that the boy inserted his fingers into the high school sophomore’s vagina.
The Assault
Filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington’s Western District, the 74-page complaint says WIAA — “primary regulator” of the state’s interscholastic sports — and the other defendants knew Kallie’s assailant on December 6 was a “transgender” girl but let him wrestle anyway. Indeed, WIAA policy, the lawsuit alleges, requires the “gender inclusivity” charade.
But Kallie, who wrestled for Rogers High School and is identified as K.M.K. in the lawsuit, didn’t know. Thus did she take to the mat against her opponent from Emerald Ridge High School.
“During the second period, the opponent reached between K.M.K.’s legs with his left hand, and pushed fingers hard, through her singlet, her Nike pro spandex shorts, and her underwear,” the lawsuit alleges:
The opponent’s fingers penetrated her vagina for several seconds, causing great pain.
K.M.K. was horrified and shocked and felt deeply violated. As this was happening, she first tried to push the wrestler off her, but she wasn’t able to. She cried to her mom that her opponents’ fingers are “in my c***hie!”
Kallie’s mom was recording from the “opposite side of the mat, so she couldn’t see exactly what this wrestler was doing” to Kallie or why she was crying out to her mom. “I don’t know what she said or why her face looked like that,” her mom said to someone off camera.
Kallie “wanted the assault to end, so she began trying to give up and to lose the match. Close to a minute after she had stopped trying to win, the male was behind her,” the lawsuit alleges:
The male’s right forearm pressed against her in the crack between her butt cheeks, while his right hand groped her again forcefully in the pelvic region between her legs and toward the front of her pelvis. He did not penetrate her vagina at that time. K.M.K. found this second touching deeply offensive and humiliating, especially as he was still wrestling her and pinning her down less than a minute after he had sexually assaulted her — all while she was no longer trying to win the match. Seconds later, she allowed herself to be pinned completely, losing the match.
School Officials, Teammates Berate Kallie
Only after the match, again, did Kallie learn that her opponent was a boy.
As well, despite Brown’s complaint to school officials and the state’s mandatory sexual-abuse reporting law, the defendants did nothing about the assault until she notified the news media. Then, of course, they panicked and moved to damage-control mode.
Worse still, school officials and Kallie’s own teammates bullied her after she complained about the assault.
“Immediately after she went public with her complaint, the school security officers would no longer acknowledge her,” the lawsuit alleges.
But what fellow students said to Kallie was worse.
“You shouldn’t even be on the wrestling team if you can’t handle an oil check,” one told her.
Said another:
Just because you were f**gered by a tranny doesn’t mean you should be on the news.
The lawsuit seeks damages to be determined at trial and an injunction to stop the state from permitting boys to pretend they’re girls and join their athletic activities. It also seeks mandatory parental notification if boys are to compete against girls.
Aside from WIAA, the defendants are:
• the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the superintendent, Chris Reykdal;
• the Puyallup School District and its Title IX coordinator;
• Rogers High School and its principal; and,
• Emerald Ridge High School and its wrestling coach.
Reaction
Kristen Waggoner, president of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Kallie, was blunt.
“This is a sexual assault — unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match,” she wrote on X.
Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong.
Riley Gaines, the ex-collegiate swimmer forced to swim against William Thomas, who goes by “Lia,” said anyone involved in permitting the match should go to jail.
“This 15 year old girl was [nonconsensually] and unknowingly touched, groped, and violated by a man,” Gaines wrote on X:
This is beyond a civil offense. In a just society, every adult who allowed for this scenario to play out would be criminally charged.
“Appalling,” Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling wrote:
I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.
No Charges for the Boy
School officials notified the cops in January that Kallie was assaulted. But, of course, the case went nowhere.
“A criminal investigation included interviews with the alleged victim and her mother, as well as video of the alleged assault,” K5NBC reported:
The sheriff’s office referred a rape charge to the prosecutor’s office.
On June 5, the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office declined to file criminal charges in the case because “it’s clear that any potential charges could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
In reviewing the case, the prosecutor’s office cites a case concerning a basketball game where a player was punched and injured. An appellate court found that a person who willingly participates in sports consents to “potentially offensive contact.” Further, inappropriate touching of the genitals in wrestling is common enough where it has a nickname and any offensive or harmful touching was “a direct by-product of the game.”
That nickname is “oil check.”
