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The family of a high school senior threatened a lawsuit Wednesday after their son - now ex-class president with a 4.4 GPA - was suspended over an altercation with a football player who allegedly sexually harassed the senior's then-14-year-old sister, reported
KCAL-TV in Los Angeles.
Dominic Conti, 17, was suspended from Westlake High School in Ventura County, Calif., for five days, stripped of his elected office, and banned from all extracurricular activities following the incident with the player at a football game last October 11.
"They way they treated me was someone that has brought, like, a firearm to school," Conti said at
Wednesday's news conference.
The Conti family says it complained to the school administration about the player but nothing was done.
"I'm a victim of sexual harassment," Conti's sister, a Westlake freshman who didn't reveal her name, told
KCAL. "And you know what, [the sexual harassment] it is not okay."
She said the player had been saying vulgar things to her and repeated his behavior, for the third time, on Oct. 11. "He begins asking me to do things to his private parts - many things to his private parts - and I begin to tell him no and I would never, ever do that," Dominic's sister told KCAL.
Her father, Larry Conti, said he and his son Dominic found a security guard and confronted the player.