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Jury awards $125K to ex-Kathleen football player after coach pinched his nipples

Lawyers for Devarus Robinson never named the coach, Irving Strickland, as a defendant -- only the Polk County School Board. Robinson claims the former Kathleen High head football coach twisted his nipple so badly it left him disfigured.
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BARTLOW, Fla.—A former Kathleen High School football player was awarded $125,000 Thursday by a Polk County jury after jurors decided the school board was negligent when it hired a coach who pinched his nipples in the locker room, according to our news partners at The Ledger.

The jury found administrators did not protect Devarus Robinson from bullying and harassment by his head football coach, Irving Strickland, while he played defensive end on the school’s 2011 team.

Lawyers for Robinson, who is now 25, never named the coach as a defendant, only the school board.

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