YOUNGSTOWN — Multiple Ursuline High School officials and students have been named as defendants in a federal lawsuit.

The suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by the parents of a student, alleges that the boy was physically and sexually assaulted by members of the football team and that the school dismissed the family’s complaints and engaged in a cover-up.

According to a press release issued by Subodh Chandra of the Chandra Law Firm in Youngstown, the incident, which allegedly occurred during a football team field trip to Florida, Tennessee and Alabama in June, included video and photos of the acts, in which the boy was partially or entirely nude, and those were sent to other students and members of the community. That constitutes dissemination of child pornography.

Chandra states that the suit asserts violations of Title IX protections, failure to protect students from foreseeable harm and violations of state laws in Ohio and the other three states.

The suit names as defendants: Principal Matthew Sammartino, Assistant Principal Margaret Damore, head football coach Daniel Reardon, assistant coaches Timothy McGlynn and Christian Syrianoudis, the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown and 11 football players as well as their parents.

The suit accuses the football players of multiple crimes including criminal hazing, assault, sexual assault, aggravated assault, battery, kidnapping, false imprisonment, stalking, child pornography, sexual cyber harassment, distributing lewd and obscene materials, telecommunications harassment and witness / victim intimidation.

Read more in Wednesday’s Vindicator.