'Put down your stones': Ex-law officials urge patience amid Wall HS football hazing probe - Yahoo News
Monmouth County's former top law enforcement officer and his ex-juvenile court judge wife, who raised children in a Wall School District community now riven by allegations of hazing and abuse by some members of the high school football team, warn in an op-ed article Monday against "shaming an entire town, an entire school system, an entire team."
Decrying a "rush to judgment" in the weeks-old investigation into allegations of locker room hazing and abuse, ex-Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni and former Family Court Judge Deborah Gramiccioni took aim at those who had prejudged the case and painted "with such a broad brush," harming students who had nothing to do with the alleged wrongdoing.
"So before you pick up that stone to throw at a child who happens to be wearing a Wall Football jacket, think long and hard about the message you’re sending to your own kids. You’re telling them that facts don’t matter. That public condemnation is warranted before any investigation is complete. Put down your stones," the couple wrote in the opinion piece published by the Asbury Park Press.
The Gramiccionis, both longtime top law officers and public officials in New Jersey, are co-partners in the law firm Kingston Coventry, with offices in Parsippany and Manasquan, and Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
"Several of the uninvolved high school football players and their families" have hired the Gramiccionis to "try to represent their interest," Christopher Gramiccioni said in an interview with the Press. He and his wife also are members of the Wall community and raised their children in the township for 15 years.
"What has essentially been happening is that we're generalizing that the entire Wall football team has done something wrong," said Deborah Gramiccioni, a former Superior Court judge who had been assigned to Family Court in Ocean County, and a former prosecutor as well.
source: https://news.yahoo.com/put-down-stones-ex-law-100128060.html
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