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(Pie fumes WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 | $1.00 | GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA | gainesvilletimes.com Honestly Local Lakeview Academy boys basketball team comes up short in loss against St. Francis, 76-58. spouts,™ Riverside Military suit alleges abuse Former cadet claims school was negligent in preventing physical, sexual assault BY NICK WATSON nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com A former Riverside Military Academy cadet who was alleg edly beaten, hazed and sexually assaulted by older cadets claimed the school did little to stop the vio lence, according to a lawsuit filed this month. The plaintiff, listed by the ini tials L.A. in a lawsuit filed Nov. 15 in U.S. District Court, claimed his roommate would “beat, punch, bang his head against the wall, strongly (grab his) testicles and recruited other cadets to inflict such hazing and punishment.” The former cadet and attorney Laurie Speed are asking the court to allow the case to continue only using initials. Speed and co-counsel Martin Glink did not return requests for comment this week. “We have only been made aware of the suit and are looking into the matter. Because of this we will not make any comment at this time,” Riverside marketing and public affairs director Chris tian Mims wrote in an email. The lawsuit made further sex ual assault allegations regarding the plaintiffs roommates. During the cadet’s enrollment at Riverside between 2012 and 2013, two cadets allegedly hazing him had a history of being physi cally abusive and should have been denied admission, according to the lawsuit. “On various dates, Riverside exchanged emails with R.R., L.A.’s mother, who reported to Riverside Military Academy that ■ Please see RIVERSIDE, 5A ‘God had his hand on this child’ Photos by SCOTT ROGERS I The Times Stormy Dean visits her burned-out mobile home Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the Dixie Mobile Home Park off Titshaw Drive south of Gainesville. Dean and her daughter Jenna, 5, were at home when the fire started early Monday morning. Moms hand burned, hair singed carrying daughter from burning home BY NICK WATSON nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com Stepping carefully through the scorched remains, Stormy Dean pointed to the wall that connects to her 5-year-old daughter Jenna’s bedroom. The Christmas tree withered. The aquarium cracked. But that wall, what Dean called “a miracle,” bore no marks from the flames. “As bad as this fire is, God had his hand on this child, because there’s no fire damage in her room,” Dean said. Dean burned her hand try ing to grab Jenna, a severely ■ Please see FIRE, 6A Stormy Dean and her 5-year-old daughter Jenna are staying at a hotel after their mobile home caught fire, killing their bulldog pup named Blaze. Hall County Fire Services responded to the fire just after 5 a.m. Monday, Nov. 26, in the 3600 block of Titshaw Drive south of Gainesville. ‘In the 60 seconds it took me to carry (Jenna) down that hallway and start back in for Blaze, it was engulfed and it was so hot I couldn’t get back in.’ Stormy Dean SOUTH HALL Bacteria levels lowering in creek after spill BY MEGAN REED mreed@gainesvilletimes.com More than a week after 200,000 gallons of sewage spilled into a South Hall creek, fecal coliform levels in the water have lowered from a height of 5,700 counts per 100 milliliters. That number made the water in Sherwood Creek unsafe for direct contact, according to Marzieh Shahbazaz, a program manager for municipal compliance with the Georgia Envi ronmental Protection Division. Counts should not be above 4,000 on any given day for water used for recreation, according to state regulations. But even that high number is relatively low for a sewage spill of this size, Shahbazaz said. She said heavy rains could have diluted the spill. “I have seen much higher numbers down stream on the first day (after a spill), but most rivers, because of dilution, they recover,” Shah bazaz said. Repairs on the broken pipe at Sherwood Creek are expected to be complete later this week, according to Ken Rearden, the county’s ■ Please see SEWAGE, 5A Community weighs in on parks plan BY MEGAN REED mreed@gainesvilletimes.com At a Hall County Parks and Leisure meet ing Tuesday evening, local residents said they want the parks department to take advantage of existing resources in the area, such as Lake Lanier and local colleges. They also said they would like to see pro grams and parks staff distributed evenly throughout the county and more trails for walk ing or biking. 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