{"id":945273,"date":"2021-10-31T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=945273"},"modified":"2021-10-31T11:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:43:41","slug":"ky-mayor-who-got-lap-dance-from-male-students-was-sued-over-school-trip-that-ended-in-alleged-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ky-mayor-who-got-lap-dance-from-male-students-was-sued-over-school-trip-that-ended-in-alleged-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"KY Mayor Who Got Lap Dance from Male Students Was Sued over School Trip that Ended in Alleged Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fky-mayor-who-got-lap-dance-from-male-students-was-sued-over-school-trip-that-ended-in-alleged-rape%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=945273&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Donald-_Happy_-Mobelini-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The mayor of Hazard, Kentucky, and principal of Hazard High School, Donald \u201cHappy\u201d Mobelini \u2014 who was seen in photos&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/27\/kentucky-mayor-lap-dance-high-school-student-man-pageant\/\">receiving a lap dance<\/a> from a scantily clad male high school student during a \u201cman pageant\u201d at a recent school assembly \u2014 was&nbsp;accused in a 2019 lawsuit of not properly chaperoning a school trip during which one student allegedly raped another.<\/p>\n<p>Mobelini and two Hazard High School teachers are being sued over a&nbsp;school trip to New York City and Washington, D.C. in 2017, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/account.kentucky.com\/paywall\/registration?resume=255333671\">report<\/a> by <em>the Lexington Herald-Leader<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Court records show a&nbsp;jury trial is scheduled for August 2022, the report adds.<\/p>\n<p>A female former student alleges in the lawsuit that when she was a junior at Hazard High School in 2017, Mobelini and two teacher chaperones did not check on students at various points during a school trip.<\/p>\n<p>The suit claims that students drank and that the female victim was physically and sexually assaulted by a fellow male student. The lawsuit asks that the former female student be compensated for her distress.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The lawsuit also alleges that Mobelini and the other adults in charge did not hold the students \u201cto a strict account for their conduct,\u201d and did not appropriately handle the investigation into the female student\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Mobelini and the two teachers have asked that the lawsuit be dismissed, reports&nbsp;the <em>Lexington Herald-Leader<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The suit also claims&nbsp;that&nbsp;students were left unsupervised to walk through Times Square, and that several members of the group had purchased alcohol while on the streets of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims that between the hours of 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. on October 29, 2017, the female&nbsp;student was walked to her room by a fellow male student, and was then physically and sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>Mobelini was reortedly investigated twice in 2008 for alcohol-related incidents involving students, reports the<em>&nbsp;Herald-Leader<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In one incident, <em>the Herald-Leader<\/em> reported that photos surfaced online of Mobelini driving students around while they smoked and drank alcohol. In a second incident, police caught students&nbsp;drinking on the school\u2019s football field moments after the principal left them.<\/p>\n<p>Mobelini did not&nbsp;face consequences for either of the instances in 2008, as&nbsp;he was unaware of the drinking, according to a report by the <em>Herald-Leader<\/em> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Mobelini faced backlash after photos surfaced online of scantily clad male high school students giving him \u2014 as well as other school staff members \u2014 lap dances at a school assembly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.08547008547\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Hazard, Kentucky high school is under fire over a homecoming assembly in which female students dressed as Hooters servers, and male students wore lingerie and gave lap dances to faculty, including the Principal Donald Mobelini, who is also mayor of the city.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT.THE.F*CK?! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VJt7yRk7R6\">pic.twitter.com\/VJt7yRk7R6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natasha \u26af\u035b (@ndelriego) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndelriego\/status\/1453474608938733573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In another photo, female teens were seen wearing Hooters t-shirts at the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard Independent Schools Superintendent Sondra Combs said Wednesday that \u201cappropriate disciplinary action has been taken\u201d after an investigation into controversial photos taken at Hazard High School, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/10\/27\/kentucky-hazard-high-school-homecoming-superintendent-updates-investigation\/8574828002\/\">reported<\/a> the <em>Courier-Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4074074074074\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Um. Exactly what is going on here, y\u2019all? C\u2019mon Hazard. Get it together. \ud83c\udffc\u200d\u2640\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GZQCdYnpbF\">pic.twitter.com\/GZQCdYnpbF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cThat\u201d Nema (@nema) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nema\/status\/1453173106873339905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Hazard, Kentucky, and principal of Hazard High School, Donald \u201cHappy\u201d Mobelini \u2014 who was seen in photos\u00a0receiving a lap dance from a scantily clad male high school &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}