Dad of NYC teen charged with sex assault in football hazing incident claims school is overreacting to horseplay as he shares video

The father of a Brooklyn teenager accused of sexual assault in a football hazing incident claims it was all just “horseplay” — as he shared locker room footage shot the same day.Early Hunter said his 14-year-old son, one of three junior varsity football players charged in last week’s “pantsing” incident at James Madison High School, was left traumatized after being busted, and said the prank was played on several players — including his own son.“[The alleged victim] said my son pulled his pants down,” Hunter told The Post Monday.

“It was horseplay.Kids playing around and now my son’s in handcuffs? He is traumatized, in the back of the precinct being interrogated like he killed someone.“The dean asked me to ask him what happened and he said, ‘Dad, I don’t know what they’re talking about.

It was the pantsing game.Everybody is doing it to everybody.

They did it to me.It’s a game,'” Hunter said.Video of other hazing on the same day and shot by Hunter’s son shows the JV team in the locker room, with one teen sitting on a bench giggling while two boys sit next to him holding his arms and another tries to take off his pants.At one point the teen is on the ground and another boy appears to punch him in the groin area and then kick him lightly — while most of the others in the room appear to be laughing.

The school and the NYPD didn’t take the hazing as a laughing matter after sources said an alleged victim’s mother called the cops and reported the incident.It’s not clear if the alleged assault took place before or after the caught-on-video hazing.Three Madison JV players — 13, 14 and 15 years old — were picked up and charged by police, while the school cancelled the team’s games, at least temporarily.

Because of the ages of the suspects the case is expected to land in Family Court if it moves forward.Officials at James Madison High School referred questions about the incident to the city Department of Education, which ...